AASV Foundation Provides Scholarships to Two Martha Acosta Foundation Scholars

October 17, 2023 — 

The AASV Foundation will award $2500 stipends to attend AASV Annual Meeting February 24-27, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee to two scholars of the Martha Acosta Foundation. The two scholars will be selected soon.

Past scholarships awarded by the Martha Acosta Foundation honor distinguished mentors who graduated from the University of Guadalajara's School of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics. Martha Alicia Acosta Padilla, DVM, foundation founder, has decided to support the Martha Acosta Foundation A.C. with 5 perennial scholarships to honor mentors at her Alma Mater the University of Guadalajara. By February 2024, the Martha Acosta Foundation will have awarded 9 stipends to 6 fellows to honor the following mentors:

• DVM Ma. Del Consuelo Arana Flores,
• DVM Ricardo Jiménez Rubio,
• DVM Juan Manuel Magallón Mares,
• DVM Irma Elizondo Espinoza,
• DVM Elia Margarita Rodríguez Chávez.

Soon the scholarship program will be extended with 5 scholarships for other universities in Mexico including UNAM, UAM and UNISON. In 2024 we will honor the professional life of the outstanding professionals:

• DVM Laura Batista García graduated from UNAM and
• DVM Adelfa del Carmen García Contreras who is part of the Department of Agricultural and Animal Production in the Division of Biological and Health Sciences of the UAM.

The winning scholars to date are

• DVM Nohemí González Torres scholarship holder for 3 semesters and now graduated,
• Lizbeth Camarena Mojarás scholarship holder for 2 semesters,
• Ma. Ysabel Hernández Hernández scholarship holder for 2 semesters,
• José de Jesús González Franco, scholarship holder for 2 semesters, and
• the new CUSUR scholarship holders with scholarships in their 1st semester who will be announced at CUSUR on November 6.

[Source: Marth Acosta Foundation 10 October 2023]