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J. Paul Getty Award spotlight ullas karanth A former graduate student in UF’s wildlife ecology and conservation department has been awarded the 2007 J. Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership. Ullas Karanth, who earned his master’s degree in 1988 from UF’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, now works in India, where he earned his doctoral degree in applied zoology at Mangalore University in 1993. He has worked toward the conservation of Asian elephants and tigers, helped create three protected land areas in the Western Ghats and done innovative work on voluntary resettlement to benefit both people and wildlife. He is currently director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in India and oversees a postgraduate program in wildlife biology and conservation at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore. The J. Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership is given to a single recipient each year and establishes a $200,000 fellowship in the recipient’s name to support conservation-related education and training. He received the award Oct. 16 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. n – chuck woods For more information, contact: john hayes (352) 846-0552 hayesj@ufl.edu ullas karanth ukaranth@gmail.com New Department Chair “Dr. Shay’s expertise lies in understanding how the availability of nutrients affects gene expression and metabolism,” Cheek said. “We are fortunate to have successfully recruited him to UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, and we look forward to his leadership and continuing accomplishments.” Shay said he is pleased to return to UF, where he earned his doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology in 1990 and did postdoctoral research work from 1990-92 with the Center for Nutritional Sciences and the food science and human nutrition department. As chair, his goals for the department include modernizing research and teaching laboratories, making new hires to replace retiring longtime faculty, finding ways to better serve the increasing numbers of students pursuing the undergraduate nutrition major, and expanding linkages to the health sciences and engineering. Shay worked for Kellogg from 2005 until he joined the UF faculty. At Kellogg, he became the company’s lead scientist responsible for evaluating bioactivity and efficacy of novel functional food ingredients. From 2000 to 2005 he was an associate professor of biological sciences with the University of Notre Dame, and from 1993 to 1999 he was a faculty member with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he held several positions. At UF, he was a National Institutes of Health-National Research Service Award postdoctoral research fellow in 1991-92 and a postdoctoral research associate in 1990-91. Shay was a graduate research assistant in the UF College of Medicine’s biochemistry and molecular biology department from 1985 until he earned his doctorate in 1990. Shay received a master’s degree in physics and education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1979 and a bachelor of science degree in zoology from Amherst in 1976. n – tom nordlie For more information, contact: jimmy cheek (352) 392-1971 jgcheek@ufl.edu neil shay Neil Shay, a leading nutritional scientist with Kellogg Company and UF alumnus, began serving as the new chairman of the university’s food science and human nutrition department on Nov. 3, 2007. In announcing the appointment, Jimmy Cheek, UF senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources, said Shay is an exceptional scientist and scholar with an outstanding record of achievements. 30 IMPACT | Spring 2008

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