CeZAP affiliated faculty awards and honors
CeZAP affiliated faculty members awards and honors
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Article ItemIra Blader among 65 fellows elected to American Academy of Microbiology , article
Blader, head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine researches how parasites interact with their hosts.
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Article ItemVeterinary college researcher Kylene Kehn-Hall receives 2024 Zoetis Research Excellence Award , article
Kehn-Hall's lab uses artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of hemorrhagic fever viruses.
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Article ItemRoger Ramirez-Barrios recognized with 2024 Zoetis Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Award , article
Ramirez-Barrios teaches parasitology content across all four years of the curriculum, witnessing students' entire journey to becoming veterinarians.
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Article ItemVirginia Tech’s Linsey Marr named 2023 MacArthur Fellow , article
The University Distinguished Professor is one of 20 people who will receive an $800,000 award, a highly prestigious award commonly called a “genius grant.”
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Article ItemWilliam Ducker named Robert E. Hord Jr. Professor in Chemical Engineering , article
A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2008, Ducker has made a number of game-changing and high-impact contributions to the fields of colloid and surface science.
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Article ItemAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science honors X.J. Meng as Lifetime Fellow , article
Meng, University Distinguished Professor at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and professor of internal medicine at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, is being honored for his paradigm-shifting discoveries of animal hepatitis E viruses leading to the recognition of human hepatitis E as a zoonotic disease that is transmitted from animals to human and between different animals species.
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Article ItemLiwu Li named College of Science Faculty Fellow , article
A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2005, Li serves as the director of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Virginia Tech.
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Article ItemVirginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine names Paul R. Skolnik chair of Department of Basic Science Education , article
Skolnik will provide leadership, mentoring, and strategy development for the department and faculty representing a spectrum of research and medical science specialties, including further development of a shared vision focused on continuing excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, and service.
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Article ItemAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science honors X.J. Meng as Lifetime Fellow , article
Meng, University Distinguished Professor at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and professor of internal medicine at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, is being honored for his paradigm-shifting discoveries of animal hepatitis E viruses leading to the recognition of human hepatitis E as a zoonotic disease that is transmitted from animals to human and between different animals species.
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Article ItemLinsey Marr honored as University Distinguished Professor , article
Marr’s expertise on airborne pathogenic viruses helped shape national and global policies during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as empowered the public to make sound decisions backed by science.
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Article ItemMargie Lee named associate dean for research and graduate studies at veterinary college , article
Lee, among the third class of graduates from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine in 1986 and one of its earliest Black graduates, has been head of the college's Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology since 2018.