Tina M. Widowski

Tina M. Widowski (born 1958) is a Canadian-American animal welfare scientist and a professor of applied animal behaviour and welfare at the University of Guelph.

Education Widowski earned her bachelor’s degree in Ecology, Ethology and Evolution from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1983, a master’s degree in animal science from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1984, and a doctoral degree in animal science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1988.

Career As an animal welfare scientist, Widowski has taught courses in applied ethology, animal welfare science and environmental physiology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She currently teaches Animal Welfare Judging and Evaluation, Applied Animal Behaviour, and Advanced Concepts in Applied Ethology at the University of Guelph. She was also awarded the Ontario Agricultural College Alumni Foundation G.P. McRostie Faculty Award for graduate advising in 2018, as well as an Ontario Agricultural College Distinguished Extension Award in 2017. In 2010, Widowski was awarded the Colonel K.L. Campbell University Chair in Animal Welfare and in 2009, she received a Knowledge Transfer Visiting Scholarship from the University of Melbourne. She won a Distinguished Professor Award from the University of Guelph’s Faculty Association in 2005.