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Natalie wins Best phd presentation at gss

Our very own Natalie Mastick Jensen won the award for Best PhD Presentation at the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences’ Graduate Student Symposium last week! Natalie’s talk was entitled, “Opening a can of worms: Historical change in infectious disease risk for marine mammals revealed by archived canned salmon”. Interested? You can watch Natalie’s presentation here or learn more on her website.

PhD student Sara Faiad wins three grants in two weeks

Sara Faiad is on fire!  In the past two weeks, she has been awarded:

  1. a UW Graduate School Boeing International Fellowship, which will provide one quarter of support for a research expedition in Madagascar, where Sara will study the transmission of human schistosomiasis;
  2. a foundry10 Research Grant, which will support Sara’s laboratory experiments on schistosomiasis here at UW; and
  3. a Women Divers Hall of Fame (WDHOF) 20 for 2020 Dive Training Grant, which will allow Sara to get SCUBA certified so that she can pursue research on how behavior mediates the risk of parasitic infection for marine fishes.

Way to go, Sara – we are all so proud of you!