The American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) provided an opportunity for 15 veterinary students to compete for awards in the Veterinary Student Poster Competition. United Animal Health sponsored the competition, offering awards totaling $4,000.
Based on scores received in the original judging of abstracts submitted for the AASV Student Seminar, the top 15 abstracts not selected for oral presentation at the annual meeting were eligible to compete in the poster competition. A panel of three AASV practitioners interviewed the competing students and scored their posters to determine the scholarship awards.
United Animal Health announced the following awards during the AASV Luncheon on March 9th.
$500 scholarship: Amanda Anderson, Iowa State University – Top student poster entitled "Analysis of porcine parvovirus maternal antibody decay in replacement gilts by hemagglutinin inhibition and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays"
$400 scholarships: Sam Baker, Iowa State University; Matthew Boulanger, University of Pennsylvania
$300 scholarships: William Boyd, Virginia-Maryland CVM; Rachel Stika, Iowa State University; Heather Walker, Ohio State University
$200 scholarships: Nicholas Benge, Iowa State University; Krista Carroll, Iowa State University; Amberly Jergens, Iowa State University; Brian Johnson, University of Illinois; Kris Kovach, Iowa State University; Will Miller, Michigan State University; Calie Peterson, Iowa State University; Tyler Pieper, University of Illinois
In addition to the poster competition awards, each student poster participant received a $250 travel stipend from Zoetis and the AASV.