September 15, 2025
The College of Veterinary Medicine held its annual Research Day event on Thursday, Sept. 11. The day’s events including a poster session with several individuals recognized.
The Summer Scholar Research Program introduces first- and second-year veterinary medicine students to research across the breadth of the profession. The resulting research was presented in the poster session by 21 students. Award recipients were:
- 1st place: Gwendolyn Wojewodka, “Outcomes of a Patient Safety Committee and Veterinary Incident Reporting System”
- 2nd place: Courtney Marlin, “The Application of Thoracic Ultrasound in Lambs Infected with Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus”
- 3rd place: Korinne Hansen, “Effects of in utero Heat Stress and Genomic Selection for Heat Tolerance on Boar Semen Quality”
- 4th place (tie): Emma Moore,” Evaluating Kinase Inhibitor Efficacy Against Rift Valley Fever Virus Pathogenesis”
- 4th place (tie): Livia Richards, “Blood Sampling Site in Asian Common Toads and the Implications for Field Research”
Other poster session winners included:
Postdoc Posters
- 1st place: Trevor Arunsirpiate
- 2nd place: Eman Gadu
- 3rd place: Brandon Ruddell
Graduate Student Winners
- 1st place (tie): Calvin Ko
- 1st place (tie): Sirisha Parameswaran
- 3rd place: Connor O’Shea
- 4th place: Sai Sashyanth Ganesan
- 5th place (tie): John Beck
- 5th place (tie): Giovana Ciacci Zanella
Research Day also featured presentations for the following graduate student scholarships.
Lora and Russ Talbot Graduate Award – Pictured from the left, Mostafa Shelkamy, Suraj Vasanthi, Russ Talbot, Lora Talbot, Maria Hakimi, Betsy Armenta-Levya, Kate Dion
Livestock Respiratory Diseases Graduate Scholarship – Pictured from the left, Dr. Jodi McGill and recipient Anna Castillo Espinoza
Veterinary Medicine Biomedical Research Graduate Scholarship – Pictured from the left, Sirisha Parameswaran, Sophie Krivograd, Umar Shahid