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Julie Shaffer于2024年4月被任命为负责学术事务的高级副校长，她自2023年8月起担任临时SVCAA。

谢弗于1999年加入太阳城娱乐官网生物系，并于2004年晋升为副教授，2010年晋升为教授。 She served as the department’s graduate program chair for seven years and online director for one year before becoming the department chair in 2017.

谢弗教授本科生和研究生课程，同时指导无数的学生研究人员。 With interests in microbial ecology and tickborne pathogens, she’s presented at numerous conferences and had her work published in a variety of academic journals. 她的研究项目获得了600多万美元的资助。

她还曾在多个校园委员会和学术项目审查小组任职，目前是太阳城娱乐官网大学国家战略研究所的研究员。

Among her many awards and honors, Shaffer received the Pratt-Heins Award for Teaching in 2010 and Leland Holdt/Security Mutual Life Distinguished Faculty Award – the university’s most prestigious faculty honor – in 2014. She was instrumental in revising the curriculum for her department’s undergraduate and graduate programs while creating several courses in her area of expertise.

Shaffer earned bachelor’s degrees in biology and English from the University of Sioux Falls and a doctorate in biology with an emphasis in microbial physiology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She’s a past president of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Missouri Valley Branch of the American Society of Microbiology and also has membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Science Teaching Association, Association of College and University Biology Educators, Entomological Society of America and National Association of Biology Teachers.