The AVMA/AVMF 2nd Opportunity Summer Research Scholarship is intended to provide support for students who have previously conducted a summer research project and are seeking to gain a second summer of research experience. Five $6,000 awards will be provided in 2019. ($5,000 scholarship and $1,000 to assist with travel expenses to the NIH Symposium.)
Applications for the 2018-2019 AVMA/AVMF 2nd Opportunity Research Scholarships are accepted October 15, 2018 through January 11, 2019. Please read the applications for submission directions.
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Ashley Hopkins, Purdue University In vitro study of the safety and efficacy of novel isonitrile compounds for treatment of drug resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius |
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Logan K. Weyand, Washington State University Fatal pneumonia in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) lambs: the critical role of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae carrier ewes |
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Paxton Parker, University of Tennessee Acute and subacute effects of a synthetic kisspeptin analog on serum concentrations of luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, and testosterone in prepubertal bull calves. |
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Zoe Williams, Michigan State University Proteomic and Transcriptomic Profiling of Warmblood Horses with Myofibrillar Myopathy |
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Keira Sztukowski, Colorado State University Use of FDG-PET/CT to characterize hyperactivity in the brain of FIV-infected cats as a model for HIV neurotoxicity |
2017 AVMA/AVMF 2nd Opportunity Research Scholarship Recipients
Samantha Fousse –University of California - Davis
Kim Haight – University of Georgia
Rachel McMahon – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courtney Rousse – North Carolina State University
Courtney Smith – Texas A&M University
2016 AVMA/AVMF 2nd Opportunity Research Scholarship Recipients
Mitch Caudill – Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Sarah Chung – Texas A&M University
Jordan Ford – Cornell University
Sarah Linn – The Ohio State University
Kimberly (Schreiber) Young – North Carolina State University
2015 AVMA/AVMF 2nd Opportunity Research Scholarship Recipients
Amanda Kortum – North Carolina State
Katherine Bachman – The Ohio State University
Jennifer Storer – University of Tennessee
Hannah Savage – University of California, Davis
Taylor Pursell – Texas A & M University