{"id":35479,"date":"2026-09-17T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=35479"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:12:37","slug":"paws-up-for-dr-kenitra-hendrix-and-dr-craig-bowen-brought-to-you-by-the-the-pvm-wellness-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/paws-up-for-dr-kenitra-hendrix-and-dr-craig-bowen-brought-to-you-by-the-the-pvm-wellness-committee.php","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Paws Up&#8221; for Dr. Kenitra Hendrix and Dr. Craig Bowen &#8211; brought to you by the the PVM Wellness Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week we share appreciation for Dr. Kenitra Hendrix, Associate Dean for the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories, and Dr. Craig Bowen, Associate Director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory and Department Head of Accessioning.\u00a0\u00a0A staff person shared, \u201cADDL had an intense nine months addressing Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) submissions and testing.\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Hendrix and Dr. Bowen chose one day per month this summer to personally cook the staff pancakes for a morale boost.\u00a0\u00a0It was a wonderful treat over the summer, and greatly appreciated.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s really nice to see upper management care this much about their employees.\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>This week we share appreciation for Dr. Kenitra Hendrix, Associate Dean for the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories, and Dr. Craig Bowen, Associate Director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory and Department Head of Accessioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,29],"tags":[854,598],"class_list":["post-35479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-our-people","tag-animal-disease-diagnostic-laboratory","tag-our-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35479","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=35479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35520,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35479\/revisions\/35520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}