Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
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Scholarships
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Assisting first-generation veterinary students , articleBetty McClellan and Michael Owens make the veterinary college a part of their legacy by establishing the college as a beneficiary of their estate to create an endowed scholarship supporting first-generation veterinary students.
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Long-standing partnership advances student learning and animal health , articleFor years, Bernie and Lynn Cosell’s home has been a destination for experiential learning for the veterinary college’s students. They have now elevated that long-standing partnership with a transformational gift of nearly a half-million dollars to create an endowed scholarship benefitting large animal veterinary students for years to come.
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Striving for a better life for equine veterinarians , articleMaria and David Williams fund a scholarship for equine veterinary students with a commitment of half a million dollars after an exceptional experience at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital with their horse, Whimsy.
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Kayla Fowler Wins Bente Flatland Resident Award , articleKayla Fowler, resident in neurology/neurosurgery at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, has won the Bente Flatland Resident Award.
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Camille Brassard honored with Bente Flatland Resident Award , articleCamille Brassard, resident in small animal internal medicine at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, has won the Bente Flatland Resident Award.
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Donor, recipient honor family backgrounds with Berty Mae Scholarship to veterinary college , articleEarly life experiences shaped both the scholarship donor and scholarship recipient. For Ron Guilliams, it was the sacrifices his mother, Berty Mae Maxfield, made so he could be successful. For Gianna Novak, it was raising cattle on her father’s farm, and a visit from a veterinarian to help heal a heifer she was raising.
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Woman’s unfulfilled veterinarian dream will be realized for future students through couple’s estate gift , articleAn unfulfilled dream has inspired one couple to help others fulfill theirs.
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From Coast Guard to clinics: class president forges a nontraditional path to veterinary medicine , articleUnlike many veterinary students, when Heather Skowron was a child growing up in Rhode Island, she didn’t know she wanted to be a veterinarian. In fact, she wasn’t sure what she wanted to be. After two years of community college, she earned her bachelors in liberal arts from Rivier University in New Hampshire and began an office job — but at the age of 23, she decided she needed to change direction.
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Memorial scholarship honors much-loved rural veterinarian, will assist veterinary students from rural areas , articleThe Dr. Bill W. (Doc) Fuller Veterinary Scholarship has been established by Barbara Blevins and her husband Marty, with an initial gift of $100,000, which includes contributions from friends, family, clients, and colleagues.
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Guinea pig started veterinary student’s journey, generous donors continue it , articleThanks to a guinea pig, Noah Goldfarb has known since around age 12 that he wanted to be an exotic animal veterinarian. But, between formal education, internships, residencies, and early career positions in that specialty, it can take almost 12 years to get established – and many more to pay off loans.
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Retiring to Australia, Hodgsons give $1 million estate gift to veterinary college scholarship , articleDavid and Jennie Hodgson have exciting plans for their retired life back in their native Australia, so they’re not looking for their $1 million estate gift to the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine to be activated soon.
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Scholarships open doors for Carla Gutierrez in aspirations to become livestock veterinarian , articleGrowing up, people tried to discourage Carla Gutierrez ’16 from becoming a veterinarian, telling her that it was too hard. Now a member of the DVM class of 2025, she’s proving her naysayers wrong.
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Scholarship helps student pursue equine veterinary medicine , articleSarah Landeck, a Class of 2027 student at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, is the first recipient of the Maria and David Williams Equine Veterinary Scholarship.
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Stantons’ full-tuition scholarship gift makes veterinary college possible for Lemus of 2026 class , articleMichael and Jennifer Stanton had never stepped on the campus of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine (VMCVM) when they financed their first four-year full-tuition scholarship in 2018. But now, it is Lemus benefiting from the Stantons’ generosity, having completed her first year of studies as the latest recipient of the Michael and Jennifer Stanton Family Pet Veterinary Scholarship.
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The long-lasting tradition of philanthropy , articleMatt Iager (DVM '96) endows a scholarship supporting food animal veterinary students.
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Class of 2023: Adriana Fratz named veterinary college valedictorian , articleAdriana Fratz, a dual Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and Master of Public Health student, was named the valedictorian of Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine’s Class of 2023. The achievement has also earned her the Richard B. Talbot Award, named for the college’s founding dean.