Criteria: For academic merit and financial need.
Mae Stepanski
Mae is a fourth-year student from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is interested in pursuing a residency in small animal surgery and dreams of completing a cardiothoracic surgical fellowship. She will enter a small animal rotating internship at Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital in Akron, Ohio, following graduation.
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.
Audrey Sacks
Audrey is a first-year student from Lafayette, New Jersey. She is interested in small animal and exotic general practice, but she is also considering pursuing specialities that she has encountered at the teaching hospital, specifically oncology, dermatology, or soft-tissue surgery. She has no location in mind for after graduation yet, but she has definitely fallen in love with the Midwest!
Ashley Newberry
Ashley is a fourth-year student from Irving, Illinois She is interested in mixed animal medicine with a primary focus on bovine and equine lameness and reproduction. She is currently planning to do an equine internship post-graduation to become more confident with equine medicine.
Brianna Moore
Brianna is a third-year student from Dayton, Ohio. She is interested in oncology, feline medicine, and research and plans to specialize in oncology. She wants to continue doing research and also give back to the community by volunteering at shelters' spay/neuter and vaccine clinics.
Johnathan Mingione
Johnathan, a first-year student, was born in Fairfax, Vireginia. He has interests in production medicine, small animal medicine, and exotics. He hopes to combine these interest by pursuing ownership of a mixed animal practice.
Demi Matar
Demi is a first-year student from Houston, Texas. She is interested in production medicine, equine medicine, and clinical and anatomical pathology, believing that the study of pathology will help her be a better clinician. Veterinary medicine is a second career for her, and she believes that her worldliness, maturity, and steadfast determination will help her succeed in her future endeavors.
Alyson Krieger
Alyson is a third-year student from Vero Beach, Florida. She is interested in a career in small animal general practice and/or emergency medicine. She also has an interest in mentoring future veterinarians.