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EPIDEMIOLOGISTS HONOUR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTS
The Association for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (AVEPM) will honour the lifetime achievements of recently retired OVC professor Wayne Martin Dec. 3 in Chicago. The AVEPM will present him with the Calvin W. Schwabe Award and host a symposium called “One Epidemiology: Linking Study Design, Analysis and Causal Thinking” in his honour. Martin, who joined U of G in 1974 and was founding chair of the Department of Population Medicine, will give the keynote address at the symposium. It will also feature talks by his colleague Prof. Cate Dewey and OVC graduates Brian Bedard of the World Bank, Jan Sargeant of McMaster University and Ian Dohoo of the University of Prince Edward Island.
FUTURE LEADER HONOURED
Master's student Emily Christofides is one of 10 students to receive a $5,000 Futures Fund Scholarship, supported by Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year award program. The scholarship was established to support Canada's next generation of leaders. Recipients are chosen from 10 selected schools of business across the country and are chosen based on their academic achievements, leadership qualities and extracurricular activities.