Two Acosta Scholars Receive Meeting Attendance Stipends

January 2, 2024 — AASV Staff

The AASV Foundation has awarded two $2500 stipends to veterinary students in Mexico to facilitate their attendance at the 2024 AASV Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. The students, Lizbeth Camarena Monjaras and Jose de Jesus Gonzalez Franco, were selected by the Martha Acosta Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the veterinary education of students in Latin America.

Dr. Acosta, a longtime AASV member, will accompany Lizbeth and Jose to the meeting, where they will be introduced during the AASV - AASV Foundation Luncheon. The two are current AASV student members and will receive their veterinary degrees from the University of Guadalajara later this year. Following the meeting, they will write and submit a report on how the meeting and their membership in AASV has impacted their educational goals and career direction.

The foundation's goal in providing the stipends is to promote swine veterinary medicine and encourage increased international student membership in AASV.

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