{"id":568,"date":"2021-11-17T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/?post_type=uwsp_faculty&#038;p=12232"},"modified":"2023-09-22T14:11:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T19:11:26","slug":"sarah-orlofske","status":"publish","type":"uwsp_directory","link":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/profile\/sarah-orlofske\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Orlofske"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h3>BIO<\/h3>\r\n<p>Sarah Orlofske joined the Department of Biology at UW-Stevens Point after earning her Ph.D. at University of Colorado-Boulder and serving as a visiting researcher at the University of North Dakota. Her dissertation in ecology and evolution was, &#8220;Predation on Parasites and its Consequences for Transmission.&#8221; Her research interests are in conservation biology, parasite and disease ecology, and evolution and physiological ecology.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AWARDS<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>UW-Stevens Point Excellence in Teaching, Scholarship, and Service University Award (2023)<\/li>\r\n<li>UW-Stevens Point University Scholar Award (2022)<\/li>\r\n<li>Education Scholar, Ecological Society of America (2017)<\/li>\r\n<li>Ashton Cuckler New Investigator Award, American Society of Parasitologists (2014)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>American Society of Parasitologists Committee on Education, co-chair<\/li>\r\n<li>Annual Midwestern Conference of Parasitologists, member<\/li>\r\n<li>Journal of Parasitology, associate editor<\/li>\r\n<li>Helminthological Society of Washington<\/li>\r\n<li>Wisconsin Wetlands Association, member<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p>The best part about teaching for me is watching students discover the answers to their own scientific questions.<\/p>\r\n<p>-Sarah Orlofske<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PUBLICATIONS<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Orlofske, S.A., Flaxman, S.M., Joseph, M.B., Melbourne, B.A., Fenton, A., &amp; Johnson, P.T.J. (2018). &#8220;Experimental investigation of alternative transmission functions: quantitative evidence for the importance of non-linear transmission dynamics in host-parasite systems.&#8221; Journal of Animal Ecology. 87:703-715. <a href=\"https:\/\/livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk\/3012053\/\">https:\/\/livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk\/3012053\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIO Sarah Orlofske joined the Department of Biology at UW-Stevens Point after earning her Ph.D. at University of Colorado-Boulder and serving as a visiting researcher at the University of North Dakota. Her dissertation in ecology and evolution was, &#8220;Predation on Parasites and its Consequences for Transmission.&#8221; Her research interests are in conservation biology, parasite and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"phone":" ","email":"Sarah.Orlofske@uwsp.edu","office":"TNR 446 ","title":"","building":"","room":"","website":"","bio":"","image":"","pronouns":"","first_name":"Sarah","last_name":"Orlofske","position-type":["Faculty"],"education":[{"degree":"Ph.D. - Ecology and Evolution  ","school":"University of Colorado-Boulder","year":""},{"degree":"B.S. - Biology and Wildlife Ecology  ","school":"UW-Stevens Point ","year":""},{"degree":"","school":"","year":""}],"courses":[{"number":"","name":"Animal Parasitology"},{"number":"","name":"Ecological Methods"},{"number":"","name":"Introduction to Animal Biology "}],"titles":[{"title":"Associate Professor "},{"title":"Curator of Animal Parasites "}]},"department":[3,61,57],"class_list":["post-568","uwsp_directory","type-uwsp_directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-cols","department-bio","department-sbcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uwsp_directory\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uwsp_directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uwsp_directory"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}