Other Student Awards
The AVEPM organizes an annual student competition held during the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases (CRWAD). The competition recognizes outstanding oral and poster presentations by graduate students who are AVEPM members or whose supervisors are members. In addition to presentation awards, the AVEPM offers travel scholarships to support graduate student attendance at the International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE).
Past award recipients include:
Oral presentations
1st place – Alaina Macdonald – University of Guelph - "Determinants of health and disease at the global livestock-wildlife-human interface: a scoping review"
2nd place –Taylor McAtee – Kansas State University - "Associations between estimated greenhouse gas emissions in feedlot cattle cohorts and their health and performance"
3rd place – Claudia Ossa – Texas A&M University - "Rapid chute-side antibiotic resistance detection tool to improve antimicrobial stewardship and optimize risk management while controlling bovine respiratory disease"
4th place – MaRyka Smith – Kansas State University - "A scoping review of Foot-and-Mouth Disease biosecurity practices and farm-level risk factors"
Poster presentation
Kayla Hazlett – Texas A&M University – "Development of baits and a variant classification system for target-enriched metagenomic mapping of prevalent liver abscess taxa in the bovine gut"