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The next issue of the ACBS newsletter if now available. Check out the highlights and full pdf for the latest on ACBS research, teaching, and extension.
The 2023 UArizona Food Safety Conference, hosted by the Food Safety Consortium (FSC), provided attendees an exciting hybrid conference experience, with virtual presentations and in-person career panel, networking, and poster sessions.
On December 14th, 2023, the ACBS Advising Center hosted an ACBS Fall 2023 Graduate Celebration honoring the Fall 2023 graduating cohort. Awards were presented to the Outstanding Seniors for Animal Science, Food Safety and Veterinary Science.
In December 2023, Drs. Gayatri Vedantam and V.K. Viswanathan were awarded a patent (#11,839,649) for a novel therapeutic agent targeted against the intestinal pathogen Clostridioides difficile.
Congratulations to Dr. Sadhana Ravishankar for being named to the The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Class of 2024 Senior Members.
Dennis Vern Armstrong, cooperative extension specialist emeritus, passed away in early February.
ACBS160 Human and Animal Interrelationships, co-taught by Drs. Dieter and Netzin Steklis, invites students to consider how the mind, behavior, and biology of both humans and domestic animals was changed by the domestication process.
Dr. Salvador's research in developing models to predict how pathogens travel across the landscape by incorporating animal species specific transmission characteristics has taken her around the globe.
Congratulations to Dr. Gayatri Vedantam for her inclusion in the 2023 cohort of UArizona Women of Impact which recognizes exceptional women in research and innovation.
The School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences has developed a new 13-unit Food Safety Undergraduate Certificate Program which began this Fall 2023 at UArizona Tucson and Yuma campuses and will be available to students across the United States through AZ Online starting in Fall 2024.
The BIO5 Institute’s annual KEYS program is one of Arizona’s premier training programs for high school students interested in developing STEM skills. During the summer of 2023, Dr. Ravishankar and her team, mentored and worked with KEYS Research Intern, Nyreek Thompson, from Palo Verde High Magnet School.
The UArizona Food Product and Safety Lab takes first place in the Battle of the Brats at the national American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) Meetings in Albuquerque, NM, on July 17, 2023.