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Vet Faculty Affairs/Diversity: Dr. Jacenko |
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October 22, 2013, Volume 60, No. 10 |
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Olena Jacenko |
Dr. Olena Jacenko joined the Vet School’s Dean’s Office as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Diversity. Dr. Jacenko has been serving the Vet School as a Senate member in this arena for years—and has been a co-leader of the Working Group on Faculty Strategic Planning. In the past two years she has developed and is overseeing the School’s Diversity Plan, has been representing the faculty actions and school at the Provost level and is part of the Provost’s Task Force.
Dr. Olena Jacenko received her undergraduate degree from Columbia University, majoring in biology and Russian. She earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Jacenko is currently a professor of biochemistry at Penn Vet, where she also oversees faculty affairs and diversity. Dr. Jacenko is very active in teaching, serves on most departmental and school teaching curriculum committees and has been instrumental in implementing modifications in Penn Vet’s teaching policies and curriculum. Her research is focused on skeletal development and blood cell differentiation, and she developed transgenic mouse models that are being used to define the skeleto-hematopoietic stem cell niche. Dr. Jacenko has been honored with a teaching award by the students three times prior and a Dean’s award for leadership in basic science education. |
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