Criteria: For two students who are selected first based upon academic merit and secondarily upon financial need. Recipients shall be students seeking to specialize in small animals and the recipients shall be eligible for renewal as long as they continue to satisfy the selection criteria.
Tylar Tebben
Tylar is a first-year student from Fort Wayne, Indiana. She is interested in working with both small and large animals at a mixed animal practice. She is especially interested in behavioral medicine and radiology. Tylar hopes to combine all her interests in her future career as a veterinarian.
Kaylee Showalter
Kaylee is a first-year student from Mechanicsburg, Illinois. She participated in a biochemistry research lab for three years while earning her bachelor's degree on campus. After graduation she hopes to combine her interests in shelter and community medicine, with a focus on cats, with small animal emergency medicine.