Jessica Boyd is one of 15 science students who were awarded an Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) from NSERC (the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council) for 2009. Jessica's research project, Phenomic characterization of the new Chilean strains of ISAV, was supervised by Dr. Frederick Kibenge, Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology.
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Lindsey Ward is a Microbiology and Immunology major at Dalhousie University and is from Summerside, PEI. She is one of 26 science students who were awarded an Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) at UPEI from NSERC (the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council) for 2008. Lindsey's research project, Monitoring Avian Influenza Virus in Wild birds, was supervised by Dr. Fred Kibenge, Professor of Virology, AVC.