Celebrating incredible student successes!

UCVM wins the 2022 American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) Quiz Bowl!

For the second time in three years (there was no Quiz Bowl in 2020), the team from the University of Calgary swept the Quiz Bowl, then later finished off the “AABP Dream Team” in a special match! Huge congratulations to Ryan Koop, Jacob Narbonne, James Ritchie and Cale Toews and their team coach Gordon Atkins.

DVM Student wins two prestigious scholarships!

Caroline Beninger (Class of 2024) received not only one, but two awards! The AABP Bovine Veterinary Student Recognition Award and the Amstutz Scholarship, and is the first UCVM student to receive that scholarship – huge congratulations!

 

UCVM’s Nicole Phillips (Class of 2023) is the first Canadian recipient of the Coyote Rock Ranch Scholarship

UCVM’s Nicole Phillips (Class of 2023) is the first Canadian recipient of the Coyote Rock Ranch Scholarship awarded through the Foundation of the Horse. Nicole was presented with her award at the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) 68^th Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas on Nov 20, 2022. 

Phillips will begin an internship at an equine specialty referral hospital after graduation before embarking on an imaging-focused internship and radiology residency. Her current research includes work on new treatments for equine osteoarthritis and a systematic review of existing intraarticular osteoarthritis treatments. Phillips has actively supported multiple equine rescue and therapeutic riding operations and has voluntarily organized and hosted grassroots, community-based competition in support of the Alberta, Canada equestrian community to improve accessibility of sport with entry-level divisions for novice riders and young horses.

UCVM PhD candidate wins prestigious Killam scholarship

Congratulations to Stephen Pollo (PhD Candidate with Dr. James Wasmuth) on his pre-doctoral Killam scholarship award!

Stephen is an emerging leader in both research and education, and excels in the fields of parasitology and bioinformatics. His PhD research is changing our understanding of how helminths develop from egg-to-adult, and how helminths interact with their hosts. Stephen developed bioinformatics courses that can be delivered and have impact in low resource communities, and since 2018, Stephen has taught workshops in Ethiopia. He has made significant contributions to the Host-Parasite Interactions (HPI) research training network, and he has developed public engagement materials that are used in Calgary schools and public libraries. Dorothy Johnston Killam’s desire was that those selected to receive Scholarships “shall be likely to contribute to the advancement of learning or to win distinction in a profession” and Stephen is well on his way to doing just that.