Indian-American Associate Professor Monika Gulia-Nuss, Ph.D., winsFulbright U.S. Scholar Award
A tiny cattle tick is causing big economic losses to farmers and ranchers worldwide. A pioneering University of Nevada, Reno researcher in the field of tick research to help reduce the incidence of Lyme disease in humans has now been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to apply her research to try to unlock effective ways to control the tick that is wreaking havoc with cattle.
Monika Gulia-Nuss, an associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in the University’s College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources, is working closely with researchers in Uruguay, where the national government is committed to protection of its important cattle industry from the economic ravages of the cattle tick, which are estimated to be well over $30 million in losses annually. Up to 90% of cattle infected with a fever carried by the tick suffer death, while tick damage to cattle skins impacts the leather industry and tick-borne illness also reduces milk production.
Dr. Gulia-Nuss is an Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director, Biochemistry at the University of Reno, Nevada. She completed her Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph.D. from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India.
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Dr. Monika Gulia-Nuss needs our commendation. Fulbright Scholarship is not easy to get selected for, there is probably a six-level screening and approval process before Fulbright Organization approves an application (at least, it was like that when I received my Fulbright award in 2015). I wish her well. I will be happy to share my experience when needed.