AASV Announces Veterinary Student Poster Competition Awardees

The American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) provided an opportunity for fifteen veterinary students to compete for awards in the Veterinary Student Poster Competition at the association’s 47th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La. Newport Laboratories sponsored the competition, offering awards totaling $3600.

Based on scores received in the original judging of abstracts submitted for the AASV Student Seminar, the top fifteen abstracts not selected for oral presentation at the Annual Meeting are eligible to compete in the poster competition.

Newport Laboratories announced the following awards during the AASV Luncheon on March 2nd:

• $500 Scholarship: Daniel Gascho, Purdue University – Top student poster entitled “Effect of pre-farrow ceftiofur sodium administration on Streptococcus suis colonization of peri-parturient females and their litters”


• $400 Scholarships: Kayla Blake, Auburn University; T’Lee Girard, Iowa State University


• $300 Scholarships: Donna Drebes, University of Minnesota; Katharine Kancer, University of Illinois; Megan Pieters, Iowa State University


• $200 Scholarships: Chris Deegan, University of Minnesota; Kathryn Duda, University of Illinois; Emily Mahan-Riggs, North Carolina State University; Jessica Piergiovanni, University of Pennsylvania; Kara Telfer, Iowa State University; Ryan Tenbrgen, University of Guelph; Thomas Wurtz, Washington State University

In addition to the poster competition awards, each student poster participant received a $250 travel stipend from Zoetis and the AASV.