Fall 2024 Travel Scholarship Recipients
We are very excited to announce our five fall 2024 travel scholarship recipients. Students do extensive research, organize trips, and work with mentors to turn their vast dreams into reality. We are very proud of all their efforts and excited…
Pastures & Paws: Balancing Beef Cattle and Companion Animals in Australia
We are excited to share Rebecca Szuminsky and Erika Stevens’s experience below, funded by Dr. Thomas Mack. “For my experience I had the honor of traveling to Queensland Australia and work with the veterinarians and staff and Goondiwindi & District…
Advancing Veterinary Research on Lemurs in Madagascar
We are excited to share Lily Chapman’s experience below, funded by Dr. Thomas Mack. After a 25 hour plane journey to Antananarivo, 12 hour drive to the research base Centre Val Bio, and a 20 mile hike through rice fields…
A Glimpse into Small Animal Veterinary Work in China
We are excited to share Xiaying Zhao’s experience below, funded by Dr. Thomas Mack. These three photos capture my experience at two small animal practices in China. The first shows a surgeon performing a laser laparoscopic ovariectomy on a large…
The Impact of Veterinary and Christian Volunteer Work in Belize
We are excited to share Jacob Bills and Bailey Ward’s experience below, funded by Dr. Thomas Mack. Our time in Belize was spent vaccinating, spaying, neutering, and treating animals in the surrounding communities. We did our vet work at Camalote…
Clinics to Communities: Veterinary Work and MPH Data Collection in South Africa
We are excited to share Megan Andries’s experience below, funded by Dr. Thomas Mack. This summer, Andres visited South Africa to aid in collecting tests for brucellosis which her thesis is focused on. There is very limited information on how…
Nuturing the Native Species of Peru
We are excited to share Cam Stewart’s experience below, funded by Dr. Thomas Mack. My trip to Peru was a once in a lifetime experience. I was given the rare opportunity to fly to Peru where I spent 4…
African Swine Fever Prevention and Response
We are excited to share Shridula Hegde’s experience below, funded by Dr. Thomas Mack. From May 1st to May 24th, 2024, I interned at Instituto Interamericano de Cooperacion para la Agricultura (IICA) in San Jose, Costa Rica, where I…
Wildlife conservation in South Africa Part II
We are excited to share Daniel Feinbloom’s international experience below, funded by Dr. Thomas Mack. This two-week experience in South Africa provided an exciting and enlightening window into wildlife, conservation, and exotic medicine. The first few days of the program…
Companion Animal and Wildlife Medicine at Costa Rican University
We are excited to share Ellen Bryant’s international experience below, funded by Dr. Thomas Mack. Through May and June 2023, I participated in a clinical internship at the National University of Costa Rica (UNA) in the Small Animal and Wildlife…
