The American Association of Swine Veterinarians Foundation awarded scholarships totaling $25,000 to 15 veterinary students during the AASV annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Aaron Lower received a $5,000 scholarship for best student presentation. Aaron is a second-year veterinary student at the University of Illinois. His presentation was titled "Improving the quality of mortality data through necropsy." Alpharma Animal Health provided the financial support for the Best Student Presenter award.
Additional scholarships totaling $20,000 were provided by Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, on behalf of Elanco Animal Health.
Four veterinary student presenters received $2,500 scholarships: Jenny Cho-MacSwain, University of Minnesota; Abby Patterson, Iowa State University; Emma Webster, University of Guelph; and Todd Wolff, Michigan State University.
Five veterinary student presenters received $1,500 scholarships: Margaret Aleff, Iowa State University; Kristopher Eads, North Carolina State University; Heather James, University of Saskatchewan; Genevieve Remmers, University of Montreal; and Carissa Schloesser, University of Minnesota.
Those student presenters receiving $500 scholarships were: Matt Allerson, University of Minnesota; Laura Bruner, University of Minnesota; Nicola Jackson, University of Price Edward Island, Amanda Ness, University of Illinois; and Nathan Schaefer, University of Minnesota.
Twenty-five students representing 10 universities submitted abstracts for consideration. From those submissions, fifteen students were selected to present during the annual meeting. Alpharma Animal Health, sponsor of the Student Seminar, provided a $750 travel stipend to each student selected to participate.
Judges representing private practice, academia and industry selected the recipients on the basis of communications skills in the writing of the abstract and the presentation of the case report, and on applicability of the research to swine medicine.