A name for the ages, as UWindsor alumna makes scientific history
Kathryn Bernard received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anaerobe Society of the Americas in Seattle in 2022. (Courtesy of Kathryn Bernard/University of Windsor)
By Sara Elliott
For University of Windsor science alumna Kathryn Bernard (BSc ’76), the genus of bacteria Bernardella has a special ring to it.
In 2026, a group of Canadian scientists named a new genus of bacteria Bernardella in recognition of her career as a bacteriologist.