Daniel Gianola - the Department of Animal Sciences - University of ...

Wisconsin.
1967 Course "Wool and its production," Experimental Station of Paysandú, Uruguay.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2005 Gamma Sigma Delta (Honor Society in Agriculture)
2003 International Advisory Board, Fundacion Zonamerica, Uruguay
2002 Doctor Science Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate), Universidad Politécnica de
Valencia, Spain.
2000 – 2001 “William F. Vilas Associate”, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Two years of
summer salary support and flexible research funds in recognition for outstanding
research.
1996-2000 Member of International Advisory Board of Genetics, Selection, Evolution, a
scientific journal published by Elsevier and by INRA and CNRS, France.
1995 “R. Osborne Memorial Lecturer”, University of Edinburgh, Great Britain.
1995 Fellow, American Statistical Association, U.S.A., for: “Influential research in
statistical methods for quantitative genetics; for pioneering work on Bayesian
methods applied to animal breeding; and for excellence in international teaching
of advanced statistical methods.” According to the American Statistical
Association: “The designation of fellow is a singular honor and has for more than
75 years signified an individual’s outstanding professional contribution and
leadership in the field of statistical science.”
1995 Scientific Award of Merit to Best 1994 Paper in Animal Breeding and Genetics,
Internet Animal Genetics Discussion Group (co-author of “Bayesian Analysis of
Genetic Change due to Selection using Gibbs Sampling”). Genetics, Selection,
Evolution 26:333-360.
1992 First "C.R. Henderson Memorial Lecturer in Statistics and Animal Breeding,"
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
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