Outstanding Swine Academic

Dr. Rodger Main ('96)

Dr. Rodger Main, director of the ISU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, has been named the 2024 recipient of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians' Outstanding Swine Academic of the Year Award. The award is given annually to an AASV member employed in academia who has demonstrated excellence in teaching, research, and service to the swine veterinary profession. "I am most certainly humbled and honored to be recognized by my peers in this way," Main said. "I feel extremely fortunate to have been given the opportunity to work with and for so many great people over the course of my career. I fully realize that any such recognition that comes my way is simply an acknowledgment and appreciation for the contributions being made by those of which I have the good fortune to work with and be supported by both in the workplace and at home, and for that, I am indeed most certainly grateful."