Student Scholarships
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The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine is preparing the next generation of veterinary, public health, and biomedical research professionals to tackle society’s most pressing health challenges. To remain competitive in recruiting top talent to our programs, we must offer exceptional degree programs that have a high return on investment for students. The rising educational debt-to-salary ratio is considered one of the most serious issues facing veterinary colleges across the U.S. and the veterinary profession as a whole.
Scholarship support will play a crucial role in reducing the burden of educational debt and in providing the college with recruitment packages to attract the best and brightest students. This support will help to address issues of student access across socio-economic, racial, and international boundaries by creating opportunities for underserved populations, including first-generation students. Promoting inclusive access will also create a more diverse learning environment that mirrors the society our students will serve.
Featured Scholarship Funds
Frank P. Van Dresser Public & Corporate Veterinary Medicine Scholarship
Established by Dr. William Van Dresser, a founding member of the veterinary college, to honor of his father, this scholarship was created to benefit exceptional individuals interested in the practice of public or corporate veterinary medicine. It is awarded each year to a third-year veterinary student in the public corporate track to facilitate their participation in a CPCVM clerkship in their fourth year.
Susan West Marmagas Public Health Scholarship
What started as a crowdfunding project to honor the memory of Susan West Marmagas, who was director of Virginia Tech’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program and an associate professor of practice in the Department of Population Health Sciences, has evolved into an endowment. Marmagas’ brother and sister-in-law, Roger and Deborah West, pledged the difference between what was raised in the campaign and endowment level to create a new permanent scholarship.
Latest Scholarship Stories
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Article ItemScholarship helps student pursue equine veterinary medicine , article
Sarah 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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Article ItemScholarships open doors for Carla Gutierrez in aspirations to become livestock veterinarian , article
Growing 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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Article ItemCamille Brassard honored with Bente Flatland Resident Award , article
Camille 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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Article ItemGuinea pig started veterinary student’s journey, generous donors continue it , article
Thanks 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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College of Veterinary Medicine
Development Office
225 Duck Pond Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24061