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Miao Guo has been awarded the Ann G. Wylie Fellowship. The Graduate School Dissertation Fellowships are one-semester awards intended to support outstanding doctoral students who are in the final stages of writing their dissertation. Miao is pursuing a Ph.D. in Food Science. She is currently working on evaluating food safety risk of Toxoplasma gondii infection through consumption of meat products in the United States. The research project is funded through USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). Dr. Abani Pradhan, Assistant Professor in the Nutrition and Food Science Department as well as a faculty member of the Center of Food Safety and Security Systems (CFS3),  is her advisor. She has been a Research Assistant for Dr. Pradhan as well as a Teaching Assistant for Dr. Robert Buchanan, Professor and Director of CFS3. Miao is "very grateful to be selected" and says "the award is a great honor". Miao says she will "keep up the good work".

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