Congratulations to the latest winners!

The following students were chosen as winners from the most recent submissions to The Vet Gazette, and will be receiving cash prizes for their work!  Look for their submissions to be published in the upcoming weeks.  In other Gazette news, I've decided to start publishing all entries, not just the prize winners.  I've been really impressed with the creativity and skill of everything being sent in, and feel like it's a shame not to share with everyone! Since TVG is not limited by page space now that we are in electronic format, it'll be easier than ever to share what veterinary students are capable of, so check back often!

Melissa Andritz, Editor

And now...the winners!

Forum:
Winner: Becky Lee, UC Davis

Life as a Vet Student
Winners: Oneal Peters, Colorado State, Sharon Ostermann, UC Davis
Honorable Mention: Oneal Peters, Colorado State, Sharon Ostermann, UC Davis

Experiences:
Winner: Bradley Venable, Auburn
Honorable Mention: Samantha McDonnel, UC Davis; Jenna Winer, UC Davis

Trivia:
Winners: Brittany Beavis, Washington State; Olga Vinogradova, Illinois

Abstracts/Cases:
Winner: Alison Manchester, Cornell
Honorable Mention: Hailey Harroun, Colorado; Jana Mazor Thomas, Tufts

Creative Corner:
Winner: Tia Chambers, Ross
Honorable Mention: Cynthia Fichtner, St. Matthews; Andrew Martin, Illinois; Jessica Dreyfuss, North Carolina

Foot in Mouth:
Winner: Courtney Butts, Florida
Honorable Mention: Shake Chatterjee, Minnesota; Courtney Deer, Mississippi

SCAVMA Chapter with the most submissions:

University of Glasgow

Trivia Winners!

The World Organization for Animal Health, or OIE, is an important international organization for the surveillance of transboundary and emerging animal diseases.  It has the authority to officially declare a country free of four diseases.  What are the four diseases, and which of them (if any) have been present in the United States in the past or present?

Answer: The four diseases are Rinderpest, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia, and Foot and Mouth Disease. All have been present in the United States except for Rinderpest.

Congratulations to Olga Vinogradova from the University of Illinois and Brittany Beavis from Washington State University.  They were randomly chosen from the correct submissions and will be receiving $20!

Congrats Glasgow for most submissions to Issue 47 Volume 4

Congratulations to the University of Glasgow for having the most submissions to the latest volume of The Vet Gazette!  Their SCAVMA chapter will be receiving $200! 

Thanks to everyone who submitted pieces for this issue, check back in the next week for the winners!

Summer Experiences

Stephen Reichley
The Ohio State University, '14


Do you ever wonder what you will be doing after graduation? Consider a career in aquatic animal health. Almost 86% of the seafood consumed in the United States is imported, leading to a $9 billion trade deficit.  There are only so many fish in the sea; the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates 84% of the world’s fish stocks are fully exploited or overexploited.  Aquaculture currently accounts for over half of the world’s fish supply and is the fastest growing area of agriculture in the world.

With the global population on the rise and the fact that the feed conversation ratio of fish is better than beef, swine, and poultry, aquaculture is the natural industry to supply the world with quality protein.

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Forum

"We receive hundreds of emails each week, we study on computers (likely with earphones in our ears), some of us have fully computerized notes, we navigate with our GPS, communicate with Skype, and do just about everything on smartphones. What do you think of all this technology in a vet student’s life? Making things easier or more complicated? Do you prefer to communicate and study electronically or would you be much happier unplugged?"

Stephanie Silberstang
Cornell University, '13

This past year I decided to try something new. I wanted to go paperless, or as close to paperless as I could. My main motivation was to reduce my carbon footprint on the world. I pursued this goal in many other aspects of my life including composting at home, walking and taking public transportation when possible and participating in a local farm share. In addition to becoming environmentally friendly, I thought it was important to embrace technology to prepare for the future of veterinary medicine that includes paperless medical records. However, my first step to pursuing this goal within my academic career was to not buy my course notes, which were hundreds of pages of printed notes. Instead, I decided to bring my laptop to lecture every day to view PowerPoint slides and to take notes digitally. This easy step saved me one hundred dollars!

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