Bishop Herbert Welch Award for Scholarly or Artistic Achievement (2025)
Ramon Carreno is a teacher-scholar who is passionate about working with students at Ohio Wesleyan. He has taught courses in parasitology, cell biology, entomology, evolution, and invertebrate zoology, as well as travel-learning courses to the Galápagos Islands and Costa Rica.
Dr. Carreno continues to serve as the university's pre-veterinary advisor and has served on several faculty committees. He and his students have carried out research in the fields of parasitology, entomology, and wildlife diseases, with 36 papers published during his time at OWU.
Dr. Carreno's students have had many field and lab experiences, and many of them have presented their research at local and national conferences. This research has included surveys and systematics of parasites from mammals, birds, insects, and other animals, as well as the description of several species new to science. Dr. Carreno's students also do research involving diagnostic methods including DNA barcoding and molecular phylogenetics, light microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy.
Dr. Carreno was a part of a team of faculty that was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that enabled purchase of the electron microscope, and his research on parasites of mammals has also been funded by NSF.