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AASV Announces Student Poster Competition Awardees

March 1, 2021 — AASV Staff

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 $4000.

Forty-two veterinary students from 10 universities submitted abstracts for consideration by student abstract volunteer judges Drs Darryl Ragland, Jordan Gebhardt, Bethany Heitkamp, Larry Rueff, Thomas Painter, and Patrick Hoffmann. 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 and volunteers, Drs Laura Batista, R.C. Ebert, and Clayton Johnson, interviewed the competing students and scored their posters to determine the scholarship awards. Drs Andrew Bowman and Perle Zhitnitskiy chaired the competition.

United Animal Health announced the following awards during the virtual AASV Annual Meeting March 1st.

$500 scholarship: Luke Daniels, University of Illinois - Top student poster entitled "Use of computer-aided design to optimize swine facility airflow"

$400 scholarships: Nicholas Benge, Iowa State University; Melanie Boucher, University of Guelph

$300 scholarships: Matthew Boulanger, University of Pennsylvania; Kyle Nisley, Iowa State University; Sydney Simmons, North Carolina State University

$200 scholarships: Lucas Buehler, Ohio State University; Kate Edmunds, Michigan State University; Katyann Graham, Iowa State University; Isaac Goldner, University of Illinois; Ashley Hallowell, University of Pennsylvania; Kelly Hewitt, Iowa State University; Dayna Kinkade, University of Illinois; Brooke Kitting, University of Pennsylvania; Rachel Weidmayer, University of Minnesota

In addition to the poster competition awards, each student poster competition participant received a $250 stipend from Zoetis.

AASV staff contributed to or researched this story. For more information about the AASV, please visit http://www.aasv.org/.