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Purdue veterinary students pause for a group photo during the national Boehringer Ingelheim\/NIH Symposium at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, which they attended because of their participation in the Summer Research Program.<\/p>\n
Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s 2018 Veterinary Scholars Summer Research Program (SRP) gave 21 DVM and pre-veterinary students first-hand experience working with faculty on a wide variety of research projects. The program is designed to provide students 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 involved 11 weeks, from May 21 to August 5, of focused research as well as seminars, field trips, and symposia. The program has been held annually since 1991.<\/p>\n
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Summer Research Program participant Alina Ibrahim, an undergraduate student from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., discusses her research poster, titled \u201cAscorbic acid (Vitamin C) and low-dose hydrocortisone therapy in an equine model of sepsis,\u201d with Dr. Laurent Cou\u0451til, professor of large animal internal medicine, during a research poster session in Lynn Hall August 1.<\/p><\/div>\n
This year\u2019s participants included 15 Purdue DVM students and six pre-veterinary students from Purdue, Prairie View A&M University, Agnes Scott College, Grambling State University, and North Carolina A&T University. Dr. Harm HogenEsch<\/a>, 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<\/a>, organize the program by matching students and faculty.\u00a0 \u201cOver the years, this program has influenced dozens of students who had their eyes opened to the kinds of career opportunities available in veterinary research and the powerful way in which scientific discovery can positively impact the future of veterinary medicine,\u201d Dr. HogenEsch said.\u00a0 \u201cUltimately, we want to increase the number of students who are interested in advanced training following graduation.\u201d<\/p>\n As part of the program, students participated 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. \u00a0They also visited Covance Laboratories in Greenfield, Ind., and attended a joint symposium with the University of Illinois Summer Research Fellows. \u00a0In addition, each of the Summer Research Fellows prepared an abstract and poster about their research that they presented to PVM faculty, staff and students during a special poster presentation August 1 in Lynn Hall.\u00a0 Then, the veterinary students traveled to the national Boehringer Ingelheim\/NIH Symposium held at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences August 2-5.<\/p>\n Dr. Andrea Santos (right), assistant professor of veterinary clinical pathology, guides Purdue veterinary student Caitlyn Ridenour, of the DVM Class of 2021, as she works on her summer research project.<\/p><\/div>\n Special thanks to all of the PVM faculty members who mentored students as part of the 2018 Veterinary Scholars Summer Research Program:<\/p>\n Purdue DVM Students and Faculty Mentors<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Undergraduate Pre-veterinary Students and Faculty Mentors<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s 2018 Veterinary Scholars Summer Research Program (SRP) gave 21 DVM and pre-veterinary students first-hand experience working with faculty on a wide variety of research projects. The program is designed to provide students 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11],"tags":[317,194,241,528,557],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-research","tag-discovery","tag-fall","tag-office-of-research","tag-summer-research-program","tag-veterinary-scholars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","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=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31812,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/31812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Caitlyn](\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1655_sm.jpg\")
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