Happenings in the Department of VCAPP
NEW to and DEPARTING from VCAPP
Richard Brown has left his position at VCAPP (April 8) in the
Krueger lab to accept an appointment at ARU.
Heather Cochran has been hired to serve in the position of Academic
Coordinator after Pam Colbert's retirement. She began her
duties at VCAPP on May 5.
Bonnie Campbell from the Clinic joined VCAPP's faculty as of April 1
for a 25% appointment. She will be teaching small animal
applied anatomy.
Valentina Colonnello joined Jaak Panksepp's lab in March. She
had been working with Ruth Newberry and Jaak Panksepp for the past
year while in Italy doing research for her PhD.
Vanessa Wakeling, Research Associate with Barb Sorg, began a
regular appointment in the lab in May. Fernanda Monjaraz
Fuentes also began a research associate position in the lab of Dave
Rector. Both of these women are (or will be) graduates from
the undergraduate Neuroscience Program.
Yonghong Zhang will arrive on September 1, 2008, to work with Yan Dong
(as a visiting research associate).
Lissette Jimenez will be leaving VCAPP to attend medical school in
June.
Mark Urza will leave July 2(ish) for dental school.
Travis Brown will assume duties as a postdoctoral fellow on July 1,
2008 in the lab of Yan Dong. Congratulations to Travis on
completing his PhD requirements! Travis successfully defended
his thesis Thursday, June 12. his major professor is Dr. Barb
Sorg.
Derrick Phillips (Rector lab) will become a Research Associate on July
1st. Although he has been working in a timeslip capacity, the
move will make him a permanent part of the Rector lab.
EVENTS OF NOTE
Celebration of Excellence at CVM
Dean Warwick Bayly invited all members of the
Department of VCAPP and CVM to join in a celebration of excellence,
Friday evening, May 16 at the Best Western-University
Inn, Moscow, ID. The evening, which featured a catered dinner,
showcased CVM faculty and staff accomplishments throughout the past
year.
Kids Judge!
The Kids Judge! event, which took place on March 4, was well
attended, well received, and very professionally handled. A
big thanks to David Rector, Sandi Brabb, Pam Colbert and Bobbi Sauer
for their hours of work in organizing and running this successful,
hands-on event for science.
Babies
The David Rector family welcomed new son, Jonathan Wade Rector, on
April 14, 2008. Proud parents are Dr. David and Anna Rector.
Jonathan joins big brother and sister, Jesse and Leah.
Fan Lia gave birth to a wonderful baby boy, Isaac (Dawei in Chinese,
which means "Great or or big behavior") on May 5, 2008. He had
lots of hair and mom reports everyone is doing well.
BIRTHDAYS TO CELEBRATE
June:
1-Starla Meighan
5-Jaak Panksee
9-Ray Quock (adjunct)
10-Jessica Jahn
12-Jay Wright (adjunct)
19-Henk Granzier (adjunct)
21-Hans Van Dongen (Spokane Sleep Group/adjunct)
24-Matthew Benskey (student)
25-Barb Sorg
30-Brain Lee (graduate student)
July:
6-Greg Belenky (Spokane Sleep Group/adjunct)
9-Laureen Poesy
13-Christian Witt (adjunct)
14-Wenji Dong
16-Sheri Six
25-Robert Kirkpatrick
26-Jayant Jayasundar
27-Rebecca Craft
30-Eva Szentirmai
