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Veterinary Students: Abstracts due September 26

September 21, 2011 — AASV Staff

The American Association of Swine Veterinarians announces an opportunity for veterinary students to make a scientific presentation and compete for scholarship awards at the AASV annual meeting in Denver, Colorado on Sunday, March 11, 2012. Interested students are invited to submit a one-page abstract of a research paper, clinical case study, or literature review for consideration. Abstracts must be submitted by Monday, September 26, 2011. Complete information for preparing and submitting abstracts is available at http://www.aasv.org/annmtg/2012/studentseminar.htm. Please note: the rules for submission should be followed carefully.

Fifteen abstracts will be selected for oral presentation in the Student Seminar at the AASV annual meeting. To help defray the costs of attending the AASV meeting, Pfizer Animal Health provides a $750 honorarium to the student presenter of each paper selected for oral presentation.

Veterinary students whose papers are selected for oral presentation also compete for one of several veterinary student scholarships awarded through the AASV Foundation. The oral presentations will be judged to determine the amount of the scholarship awarded. Pfizer Animal Health funds a $5000 scholarship for the student whose paper, oral presentation and supporting information are judged best overall. Eli Lilly & Company Foundation, on behalf of Elanco Animal Health, provides $20,000 in additional funding enabling the AASV Foundation to award $2500 each for 2nd through 5th place, $1500 each for 6th through 10th place, and $500 each for 11th through 15th place.

Abstracts that are not selected for oral presentation in the Student Seminar will be considered for participation in a poster session at the annual meeting. Pfizer and the AASV fund a stipend of $250 for each student who is selected and participates in the poster presentation. In addition, Boehringer Ingelheim provides financial support for the Veterinary Student Poster Competition. The presenters of the top fifteen poster abstracts compete for awards ranging from $200 to $500.

For more information, contact the AASV office (Tel: 515-465-5255; Fax: 515-465-3832; E-mail: aasv@aasv.org).

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