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Illinois scientist honored for work in wildlife disease management

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A top scientist at the Illinois Natural History Survey has been recognized for her work researching and helping fight chronic wasting disease in the state’s deer, as well as other wildlife diseases.
Dr. Nohra Mateus-Pinilla, director of the Wildlife Veterinary Epidemiology Laboratory at INHS, has been selected as the recipient of the Prairie Research Institute’s 2024 Distinguished Research Scientist Award.

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Behind the Scenes: New Illinois Natural History Survey scientist rejects myth: fish ‘are not gross!’

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Shaley Valentine recently joined Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) as an assistant research scientist at the Illinois River Biological Station. Prior to joining INHS, Valentine completed a PhD at Southern Illinois University, specializing in the spatial and temporal habitat use and diet of native fish in the Mississippi River.
We sat down with Valentine to ask her a few questions about her work and how she got started in the sciences.

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Behind the scenes at Illinois Natural History Survey: Postdoctoral researcher, Jordan Hartman, active in eastern banded killifish research

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Jordan Hartman joined the Illinois Natural History Survey and the Collaborative Conservation Genomics Laboratory on Jan. 1 as a Postdoctoral Researcher with Dr. Mark Davis. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Missouri in Fisheries and Wildlife.

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