Two Water Institute members have been named members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Maria Strack, professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, and Josh Neufeld, professor in the Department of Biology, join three other Waterloo researchers named Royal Society of Canada fellows and members of the College.
These University of Waterloo professors are among 87 new fellows elected by their peers for outstanding scholarly, scientific, and artistic achievement and 50 new members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists across Canada announced yesterday.
Members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
Josh Neufeld (Biology)is an ecologistwhocharacterizes microbial communities in terrestrial, aquatic, and host-associated habitats. By developing and combining cultivation-dependent and molecular techniques, his lab explores the “microbes that matter” to connect these novel microorganisms with the important roles that they play in their communities. His passion for microbiology and its communication has resulted in authorship of a microbiology textbook, multiple teaching awards, and service as Chief Editor for The ISME Journal.
