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Horace Walcott (1997)
Horace Walcott graduated from the RVC in 1997 and is now a zoo veterinarian, yogi scientist, and psychophysiologist
photo: Float Conference 2018
This year, I have been awarded a second ITEST Fellowship and was the Keynote Speaker at the 54th Annual Tuskegee University Veterinary Medical
Alumni Association Symposium in March.
For a second consecutive year I have received the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Fellowship at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/ showAward?AWD_ID=1614085), where, since 2010, I am also a visiting scientist in the Dynamical Systems Laboratory. The award includes a stipend of $3,750; it is a programme supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. During the 2018/2019 academic year, a team of Brooklyn
Tech students under my leadership and mentorship developed a mechanotronic platform, Micro-Robo-Sist, with capabilities of examining specimens contaminated with radio-active materials or super-pathogens. The Brooklyn Tech team won third place in the city wide Inno Vention Competition (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, 2019) a contest in which students develop robotic devices using skills in engineering and entrepreneurship.
I currently teach chemistry at Brooklyn Tech where I am also a Weston Research Mentor and guide students conducting multi-year pure and applied research. In October I was presented with the Carl Lange Distinguished Alumni Award by
the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation
for almost two decades of mentoring research students, many of whom have become successful scientists and engineers and my personal scholarship
in pioneering research. On 30th May, Steven Wu, a Weston Research Scholar at Brooklyn Tech, was the first recipient of the Horus/Scope Award, which I created to honour my family and relatives who took me on a tour of Great Britain, Europe and the Caribbean, which coincided with
the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. As part of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, I intend to create similar awards at my more than half a dozen alma maters. During my visit to the UK in 1969, my eldest brother, who is a professor of linguistics in Canada and at that time
was studying in England, gave me a microscope, which became my muse.
In March of this year, I was recognized
for 35 years of dedicated service to veterinary medicine at the Tuskegee University Veterinary Medical Alumni Reunion. I was also the general/
keynote speaker at the 54th Annual Tuskegee University Veterinary Medical Alumni Association Symposium. My presentation title was: The development and testing of a floater fish model (zFF) for psychophysiological investigations of altered states of consciousness using the zebrafish as an animal model. The 2018 Float Conference recently released a YouTube video of my presentation, which you can watch here: www.youtube. com/watch?v=Jfp5Wq355TE
In 2018 I was awarded the Doctor of Health Science majoring in global health from AT Still University in Arizona and I am currently completing PhD studies in Applied Psychophysiology at Saybrook University.
photo: Float Conference 2018
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