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4 CVM veterinary students earn scholarships from AABP

  • Eliza Merges stands in a dairy cow barn

    4 CVM veterinary students earn scholarships from AABP

    Fourth-year DVM student Eliza Merges, pictured standing in a dairy cow barn, was awarded three scholarships at the annual American Association of Bovine Practitioners conference. 

Four College of Veterinary Medicine students with an interest in bovine medicine were awarded scholarships this fall by the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.

The AABP awarded $343,000 through 42 scholarships to veterinary students across the United States and announced the awards at its annual conference held in September.

Fourth-year DVM student Eliza Merges was named a recipient of an Amstutz Scholarship for $11,500, a Merck Animal Health Bovine Veterinary Student Recognition Award for $10,000, and a Zoetis Foundation Scholarship for $7,500.

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College of Veterinary Medicine student Kaden Eisenbraun (second from left) stands with fellow 2025 Merck Animal Health Bovine Veterinary Student Recognition Award winners. 

Third-year DVM student Kaden Eisenbraun received a Merck Animal Health Bovine Veterinary Student Recognition Award.

Fourth-year DVM student Madison Thieman received a Zoetis Foundation Scholarship.

Fourth-year DVM student Ben Dentlinger received an Edwin Robertson Memorial Scholarship for $1,000.