{"id":32434,"date":"2026-01-30T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=32434"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:50:12","slug":"paws-up-brought-to-you-by-the-pvm-wellness-committee-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/paws-up-brought-to-you-by-the-pvm-wellness-committee-84.php","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Paws Up&#8221; &#8211; brought to you by the PVM Wellness Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, we are glad to recognize Dr. Niwako Ogata, who is an associate professor of animal behavior, for her exceptional leadership skills and her ability to create a motivating learning environment. A trainee shared, \u201cDr. Ogata\u2019s empathy, patience, and clear guidance consistently make my work smoother. She creates a light, funny, and encouraging environment that helps us stay focused and confident while pushing ourselves to improve. Her leadership is genuinely inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there someone at PVM you would like to acknowledge today?\u00a0\u00a0Please take a moment to submit a Paws Up nomination for that person.\u00a0\u00a0Any PVM staff, faculty, student, or team may be nominated by anyone in our college. It\u2019s easy to do!\u00a0\u00a0Just follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_3TNXJrJOyuLMnAi\">this link<\/a>\u00a0to complete the simple nomination form.\u00a0\u00a0In doing so, you help foster a healthy work environment by expressing appreciation and gratitude. Submissions are published anonymously and may be edited for style and length.\u00a0\u00a0For more information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/student-success\/counseling\/wellness-committee.php\">PVM Wellness Committee website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we are glad to recognize Dr. Niwako Ogata, who is an associate professor of animal behavior, for her exceptional leadership skills and her ability to create a motivating learning environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,29],"tags":[598,2211],"class_list":["post-32434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-our-people","tag-our-people","tag-paws-up"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33086,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32434\/revisions\/33086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}