Animal Welfare Group Creates Award Honoring Veterinarian

Animal Welfare Group Creates Award Honoring Veterinarian The founder and first executive director of the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC), Harry C. Rowsell, will be honored as the first recipient of an award created in his name by the Bethesda, Md.-based Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW). The Harry C. Rowsell Award will be presented to him in November at SCAW's national meeting in Nashville, Tenn. Rowsell says he hopes the award will raise researchers' awareness of the importance of animal welfare. "I hope it will generate in other scientists a desire to ensure that their animals are well chosen and well cared for," says Rowsell of the award. "If [research] involves an animal, that animal's got to receive the best care," he says. "If you're using tissue culture, again, the method has to produce the best science. That's what research is all about." SCAW is a nonprofit organization that sponsors educational conferences, sets up workshops, and distributes publications to inform researchers about effective and humane ways in which to care for laboratory animals. According to SCAW literature, the Rowsell Award will be presented annually to an individual "who is known for his/her commitment in fostering the dual goals of good science and the humane treatment of animals." Rowsell, 72, served as executive director of CCAC for 24 years before retiring in July of last year. Formed in 1968, CCAC serves as a peer-review organization that monitors scientists' use of animals in research. Rowsell received his veterinary degree in 1949 from the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph and was granted a Ph.D. in veterinary pathology in 1956 by the University of Minnesota. He has received the Order of Canada, a government-endowed honor similar to the British knighthood. After receiving his Ph.D., Rowsell performed research for 15 years at the University of Guelph (Ontario) on hemostasis and thrombosis, physical ailments in humans and animals. He left Guelph in 1965 and, before setting up CCAC, taught at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. a biochemist and information scientist, died August 26 of cardiac failure. He was 93 years old. Luck was a professor of chemistry at Stanford University from 1926 until his retirement in 1965. During the early 1930s, he founded Annual Reviews Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif., a nonprofit organization that publishes critical reviews and analyses of the scientific literature. Annual Reviews of Biochemistry has been published since 1932. Luck received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cambridge University in England in 1925. His most cited paper, with 170 citations, appeared in 1958 ("Further studies on the fractionation of calf thymus histone," Journal of Biological Chemistry, 233:1407). two biologists performing field research in South America, died August 3 in a plane crash off the Ecuadorean coast. Parker, an ornithologist and senior scientist for Conservation International, a Washington, D.C.- based nonprofit organization that supports biological research, was 40 years old. Gentry, a botanist and senior curator at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, was 48 years old. When the crash occurred, the two scientists were doing an aerial survey of the coast as part of Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program, designed to create biological inventories of previously unmapped tropical areas. Parker received his bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona in 1977, and Gentry received his Ph.D. from Washington University in 1972. Parker was the author of An Annotated Checklist of Peruvian Birds (Vermillion, S.D., Buteo Books, 1982). In 1980, Gentry published Bignoniaceae: Crescentieae & Tourretieae (Bronx, N.Y., New York Botanical Garden Publications).

Animal Welfare Group Creates Award Honoring Veterinarian

Animal Welfare Group Creates Award Honoring Veterinarian

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