Congratulations to Arícia Duarte-Benvenuto, a PhD Student at the Laboratory of Wildlife Comparative Pathology, University of São Paulo, Brazil as a winner of the 2022 BioOne Ambassador Awards.
Established in 2018, these awards are given to early career scholars nominated by active BioOne publishing partners, for compelling communication of their research beyond their immediate discipline and to the public at large. Effective communication is fundamental to growing science literacy and ensuring access to scientific information to make informed, evidence-based decisions.
To qualify for the competition, the author needed to be either a graduate student or a scientist who had completed a PhD or other graduate diploma within the last five years. BioOne then invited qualified nominees to submit a 750-word, plain-language summary or video explaining how their work impacts the world, and applies across disciplines and to the public.
This is the second year that JWD has put forward candidates for these awards, and the second year that one of our early-career scientists has been one of the award winners. Arícia produced an extremely engaging video explaining her article “Clinico-pathologic findings, and pathogen screening in fur seals (Arctocephalus australis and Arctocephalus tropicalis) stranded in southeastern Brazil, 2018. J Wildl Dis (2022) 58(1):86–99”. (Bit.ly/JWD58-86_FurSeals)
Watch Arícia's award-winning video here: Why is the study of marine mammal diseases important to your health? 2022 BioOne Ambassador Award
Congratulations to Dr. Anastasia Towe of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA as the winner of the joint Wildlife Disease Association & International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine award for the best student-authored aquatic animal paper of 2021
The Wildlife Disease Association and the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine jointly provide an award for the best student-authored aquatic animal paper in the previous year’s Journal of Wildlife Diseases.
Anastasia’s paper, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans can devour more than salamanders, was published in the October 2021 edition, Volume 57(4): 942-948.
For more information on this award go HERE
Thank you to all who made the
Endowment of the Journal of Wildlife Diseases and its
worldwide distribution possible.
The $3 million goal of the Dave Jessup, JWD Endowment Fund has been met. This milestone was reached with assistance from a strong US stock market and the right investments, but none of that would have mattered without the generous donations from our members and some non-members who embraced our mission “to acquire, disseminate and apply knowledge of the health and diseases of wild animals…” and made this goal a reality.
The WDA thanks those individuals, businesses, and organizations for their cumulative gifts totaling:
$10,000 and above
International Wildlife Veterinary Services
$1,000 – $9,999
American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians, E.M. Addison, I. Barker, R. Botzler, R. Clark, T.J. DeLiberto, B. Elkin, A. Fairbrother, D. Jessup, W.B. Karesh, L. Locke, J. Mills, C. Pinney, S. Raverty, E.K. Saito, H. Schwantje, C. Wyckoff
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L. Creekmore, T. deMaar, C.S. Deperno, H. Ernest, T.G. Ksiazek, F.A. Leighton, L. Lowenstine, K. Mehren, S. Ostrowski, J. Powers, M.J. Pybus, Ranjbar Orthodontics, B. Raphael, K. Rose, C. Rupprecht, D. Schultz, P. Wolff, T. Work, T. Yuill, B. Zimmerman
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