🎓Alumni🎓
Paige Van de Vuurst (She/her)
Past position: MSc & PhD Student
Paige Van de Vuurst McClure, graduated from the DEBY lab in 2024 after completing a Master’s degree and PhD. Her research focused on the biogeographic impacts of landscape and climate change on zoonotic diseases, with an emphasis on rabies virus in vampire bats. During her time in the DEBY lab, she was a student leader in both the Fish and Wildlife Graduate Student Association and the Virginia Tech Disability Alliance and Caucus, graduated with distinction, and received the Sally Bohland Award for Innovative Service. Paige is now a Visiting Assistant Professor at The George Washington University in the Geography and Environment Department in Washington DC.
Past position: Master's Student
Master's thesis details: Steven's thesis research focused on predicting chronic wasting disease (CWD) risk and potential landscape connectivity among Virginia white-tailed deer populations using remote sensing data. His work also focused on understanding trends in epidemiological modeling for CWD.
Current position: PhD Candidate at Washington State University studying epidemiology of treponeme-associated hoof disease in elk
