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AASV Announces Student Poster Competition Awardees

March 2, 2022 — Abbey Canon

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.

Thirty-seven veterinary students from 12 universities submitted abstracts for consideration by student abstract volunteer judges Drs Alex Ramirez, Christa Goodell, Jessica Higgins, Marlin Hoogland, Russ Daly, and Thomas Painter. 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 Todd Price, Jessica Davenport, and Dennis Villani, interviewed the competing students and scored their posters to determine the scholarship awards. Drs Andrew Bowman and Perle Zhitnitskiy chaired the competition.

Joes Spencer, United Animal Health, announced the following awards during the AASV Luncheon on February 28.

$500 scholarship: Courtney Wangler, University of Illinois - Top student poster entitled "Differentiation of H3N2 and H1N2 IAV-S antigenic sites by RT-qPCR "

$400 scholarships: Lindsay Miller, University of Minnesota; Evan Schwarz, University of Illinois

$300 scholarships: McKenna Brinning, Iowa State University; Megan Kellen, Iowa State University; Sydney Simmons, North Carolina State University

$200 scholarships: Alexis Berte, Iowa State University; Isaac Goldner, University of Illinois; Austin Janssen, Iowa State University; Rachel Kanefsky, Tufts University; Kathryn Lenker, University of Pennsylvania; Justin Moeller, The Ohio State University; Katie Parker, Iowa State University; Kaylee Robinson, University of Missouri; Adam Tatnall, University of Illinois

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

Abbey Canon is the AASV Director of Public Health and Communications