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Past Bossart Memorial Scholarship Winners

 

Launched September 17, 2021

 

 

 

 

Third Bossart Fellow - 2023

 

October 30, 2023 Award Announcement   Mehak Hafeez for her One Health Project titled    Sensor-Based Detection of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in Dal Lake, Kashmir: Advancing One Health through Participatory Surveillance   Mehak is a PhD Student at the SKUAST-Kashir University in Srinagar, Jamu and Kahmir, India

 

Second Bossart Fellow - 2022

December 15, 2022 Award Announcement   Miranda Dziobak   for her One Health Project titled    Sentinel Indicators of Marine Microplastic and Phthalate Exposure   Miranda is a PhD Student at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina, USA

See Miranda's Video about her project. Life in Plastic - Not so Fantastic!!  By Miranda Dziobak - How this Scholarship helped Miranda's progress

 

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First Bossart Fellow - 2021

 

November 30, 2021  Award Announcement   The inaugural $5,000 USD Bossart Scholarship Award went to:    Taylor Weary   for her One Health Project titled    ‘Healthy Children, Healthy Chimps: Reducing respiratory disease transmission from humans to chimpanzees in Uganda’

When she became the inaugural Bossart Scholar, Taylor was a DVM/PhD Student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. She finished her PhD in 2023 and will complete her DVM in 2025.

December 14, 2021  UW-M SVM News Posting about Taylor Winning the Scholarship

May 2022 Gathering Data, Building a Community by Taylor Weary - How this scholarship expanded her research project

April 17, 2024  Healthy Children - Healthy Chimps - Final Scholarship Report

June 11, 2024   Taylor's Narrative of One Health in Action

Combatting entrenched norms of “socialization for scarcity” and “parachute science” in global health and primatology: One Health is a moral framework, too

Scientific Publications from this research:

Weary TE, Tusiime P, Tuhaise S, Reyes JFM, Ross E, Gern JE, Goldberg TL, Respiratory Disease Patterns in Rural Western Uganda, 2019-2022, Frontiers in Pediatrics, Vol 12, April 8, 2024, https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2024.1336009

Weary TE, Pappas T, Tusiime P, Tuhaise S, Ross E, Gern JE, Goldberg TL, High Frequencies of Nonviral Colds and Respiratory Bacteria Colonization Among Children in Rural Western Uganda, Frontiers in Pediatrics, Vol 12, May 2, 2024, https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2024.1379131

Weary, T.E., Pappas, T., Tusiime, P. et al. Common Cold Viruses Circulating in Children Threaten Wild Chimpanzees through Asymptomatic Adult Carriers. Sci Rep 14, 10431 (May 7, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61236-7

Popular Media Articles about this research:

Nuwer R, Nature, Chimpanzees are dying from our colds – these scientists are trying to save them, Vol 625, 442-446, January 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00108-6

Nuwer R, The Guardian, Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?, January 16, 2024, Republished May 2, 2024, https://tinyurl.com/awdztazw