{"id":1738,"date":"2018-06-29T08:45:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:14:27","slug":"dvm-and-pre-veterinary-students-experience-scientific-discovery-through-summer-research-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/dvm-and-pre-veterinary-students-experience-scientific-discovery-through-summer-research-program.php","title":{"rendered":"DVM and Pre-Veterinary Students Experience Scientific Discovery through Summer Research Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"img-responsive img-thumbnail wp-image-1740\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1655_small-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Andrea Santos pictured with Caitlyn Ridenour\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1655_small-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1655_small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1655_small-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1655_small-353x235.jpg 353w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1655_small.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n<p>Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s 2018 Veterinary Scholars Summer Research Program (SRP) is giving 21 DVM and pre-veterinary students first-hand experience in the realm of scientific discovery. The program provides the students with the opportunity to work on independent research projects and explore non-practice careers by being partnered with faculty members who share mutual areas of interest. The SRP involves 11 weeks (May 21 &#8211; August 5) of focused research as well as seminars, field trips, and symposia. The program has been held annually since 1991.<\/p>\n<p>This year the program is hosting 15 Purdue DVM students and six pre-veterinary students from Purdue, Prairie View A&amp;M University, Agnes Scott College, Grambling State University, and North Carolina A&amp;T University. Dr. Harm HogenEsch, Purdue Veterinary Medicine associate dean for research and professor of immunopathology, and Dr. Eli Asem, professor of physiology in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, organize the program by matching students and faculty.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the program is to make DVM and undergraduate students aware of the opportunities to pursue research and research-related careers, and to increase the number of students that are interested in advanced training following graduation. To do this, students participate in weekly seminars on a variety of topics including: careers in academia, industry and government, lab animal medicine, ethics, scientific writing, research funding, and how to balance a career and personal life. They also have the opportunity to visit Covance Laboratories in Greenfield, Ind., and attend a joint symposium with the University of Illinois Summer Research Fellows.\u00a0 The SRP kicks-off with a traditional Indiana picnic at the start of the program in May. The veterinary students will also travel to a national Boehringer Ingelheim\/NIH symposium at Texas A&amp;M University on August 2-5.<\/p>\n<p>PVM faculty, staff, and students will have a chance to learn about the research conducted by the SRP participants at the conclusion of the program.\u00a0 Each of the Summer Research Fellows will prepare an abstract and poster about their research to present at a special poster presentation August 1 in Lynn G119\/155.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Summer Research Program participants are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>DVM Students and Faculty Mentors<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Claudine Auld \u2013 Dr. Gert Breur<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Bersch \u2013 Dr. Russell Main<\/li>\n<li>Eric Boone \u2013 Dr. Deborah Knapp<\/li>\n<li>Sara Canada \u2013 Dr. Kari Ekenstedt<\/li>\n<li>Christa Cheatham \u2013 Dr. Tiffany Lyle<\/li>\n<li>Chad Coakley \u2013 Dr. Arun Bhunia<\/li>\n<li>Jonathon Daniel \u2013 Dr. Riyi Shi<\/li>\n<li>Carly Gundlach \u2013 Dr. Maggie O&#8217;Haire<\/li>\n<li>Blair Hooser \u2013 Dr. Kari Ekenstedt<\/li>\n<li>Ashley Hopkins \u2013 Dr. Lynn Guptill<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Linder \u2013 Dr. Melissa Lewis<\/li>\n<li>Chris Mapes \u2013 Dr. Abby Durkes<\/li>\n<li>Caitlyn Ridenour \u2013 Dr. Andrea Pires dos Santos<\/li>\n<li>Caitlin Smith \u2013 Dr. Grant Burcham and Dr. Nancy Boedeker<\/li>\n<li>Levi Smith \u2013 Dr. Audrey Ruple<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Undergraduate Pre-veterinary Students and Faculty Mentors<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Praise Benson \u2013 Dr. Laurent Cou\u00ebtil<\/li>\n<li>Aishwarya Chitnis \u2013 Dr. Stephen Hooser<\/li>\n<li>Krista Huff \u2013 Dr. Marxa Figueiredo<\/li>\n<li>Alina Ibrahim \u2013 Dr. Sandra Taylor<\/li>\n<li>Dhara Richardson \u2013 Dr. Malathi Raghavan and Dr. Hsin-Yi Weng<\/li>\n<li>Lauren Thompson \u2013 Dr. Dianne Little<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s 2018 Veterinary Scholars Summer Research Program is giving 21 DVM and pre-veterinary students first-hand experience in the realm of scientific discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,41,29,11,42],"tags":[535,536,534,420,533,539,119,530,26,531,304,173,56,369,433,339,172,58,538,82,241,529,150,61,532,340,537,207,528,168],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-faculty-staff","category-our-people","category-research","category-students","tag-abigail-durkes","tag-andrea-santos","tag-arun-bhunia","tag-audrey-ruple","tag-deborah-knapp","tag-dianne-little","tag-dvm","tag-eli-asem","tag-featured-story","tag-gert-breur","tag-grant-burcham","tag-harm-hogenesch","tag-homepage","tag-hsin-yi-weng","tag-kari-ekenstedt","tag-laurent-couetil","tag-lynn-guptill","tag-maggie-ohaire","tag-marxa-figueiredo","tag-melissa-lewis","tag-office-of-research","tag-pre-veterinary","tag-research","tag-riyi-shi","tag-russell-main","tag-sandy-taylor","tag-stephen-hooser","tag-students","tag-summer-research-program","tag-tiffany-lyle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29447,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/29447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}