Monika Dziuba, Jared Sanderson, and Emmy Schuurmans, each veterinary students in the Class of 2023 at the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine, were awarded scholarships at the 2022 conference of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP).

• Dziuba was awarded the Francis Welcome Future Dairy Practitioner Scholarship.
• Sanderson was awarded the Zoetis Foundation Veterinary Student Scholarship. He was also awarded the Francis Welcome Future Dairy Practitioner Scholarship.
• Schuurmans was awarded the Bovine Veterinary Student Recognition Award, as well as the Zoetis Foundation Veterinary Student Scholarship.

“These awards represent our students’ potential to become outstanding veterinarians in the future, and the College is very proud of their hard work,” says Dr. Ángel Abuelo, associate professor of Cattle Health and Wellbeing in Large Animal Clinical Sciences. “The scholarships will help our students gain more experiences and knowledge to better serve their patients in the future, and we’re grateful to the supporters who made the awards possible.”

The awards were presented at the 2022 AABP Annual Conference in Long Beach, California.

“I am always encouraged by the next generation of bovine veterinarians,” says AABP executive director Dr. Fred Gingrich in a statement. “These students are the future of bovine practice and I am proud of the support that AABP and the AABP Foundation provides student members. We are thankful to Merck Animal Health, the Zoetis Foundation, and our member donors for supporting these scholarship programs administered by the AABP Foundation.”