{"id":25112,"date":"2024-10-11T11:40:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=25112"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:37:07","slug":"paws-up-brought-to-you-by-the-pvm-wellness-committee-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/paws-up-brought-to-you-by-the-pvm-wellness-committee-35.php","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Paws Up&#8221; for Sharon Meoli &#8211; brought to you by the PVM Wellness Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sharon_Meoli_2.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon Meoli, fourth year DVM student, holding a cup that says &quot;Future Vet&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-25113\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sharon_Meoli_2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sharon_Meoli_2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sharon Meoli, DVM Class of 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today we are highlighting Sharon Meoli, who is a fourth year DVM student. A faculty member nominated Sharon stating, \u201cSharon is a non-traditional, second career student. She is married with children; two of whom were delivered in the midst of her DVM coursework. Despite (or perhaps because of) her life experiences, she remains quietly attuned to the needs of others and on many occasions has provided compassion, support and encouragement to those who struggle. I wish we could put one of her in every veterinary practice!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#ededed\">Fostering a healthy work environment involves expressing appreciation and gratitude. Is there someone at PVM you would like to acknowledge today?\u00a0Please take a moment to submit a Paws Up nomination for that person.\u00a0Any PVM staff, faculty, student, or team may be nominated by anyone in our college. It\u2019s easy to do!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_3TNXJrJOyuLMnAi\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_3TNXJrJOyuLMnAi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Complete the simple nomination form.<\/a>\u00a0In doing so, you help foster a healthy work environment by expressing appreciation and gratitude. Submissions are published anonymously and may be edited for style and length.\u00a0Sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/student-success\/counseling\/wellness-committee.php\">PVM Wellness Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are highlighting Sharon Meoli, who is a fourth year DVM student. A faculty member nominated Sharon stating, \u201cSharon is a non-traditional, second career student. She is married with children; two of whom were delivered in the midst of her DVM coursework. Despite (or perhaps because of) her life experiences, she remains quietly attuned to the needs of others and on many occasions has provided compassion, support and encouragement to those who struggle. I wish we could put one of her in every veterinary practice!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,44,29,42],"tags":[26,56,2211],"class_list":["post-25112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-dvm","category-our-people","category-students","tag-featured-story","tag-homepage","tag-paws-up"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25112","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=25112"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33652,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25112\/revisions\/33652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}