The University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine has announced four finalists for the position of dean. One of the four candidates is a woman.
Ina Dobrinski is professor of reproductive biology and chair of the department of comparative biology and experimental medicine in the faculty of veterinary medicine at the University of Calgary in Canada. She also serves as a visiting professor at Inner Mongolia University. Previously, she held an endowed professorship and was the director of the Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Dobrinski hold a veterinary medicine degree from the Hannover College of Veterinary Medicine in Germany. She also earned a doctorate from Cornell University.
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The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.