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Fifty Students Recognized at Pinning Ceremony
December 16, 2024
The Graduate School welcomed 50 new Dean’s Scholars at a November 7 event honoring students nominated and selected for their commitment to academic excellence and efforts to advance diversity, access, equity, inclusion, and belonging in academia and beyond. Tyler Ward, a doctoral student in animal science, was pinned at the event. As a Dean’s Scholar, he will be invited to participate in community and professional development activities sponsored by the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement and its partners.
Tyler was awarded a Stadtman Fellowship for the first and fourth year of his PhD program. This selective fellowship recognizes academic and personal achievements, as well as other strengths that enrich the graduate student community. It supports students from diverse backgrounds who face additional barriers to academic enrollment, progress, and success. A first-generation student — the first in his family to go to college — and a gay man in animal agriculture and food animal medicine, Tyler expressed gratitude for the fellowship’s impact. “Being awarded such a fellowship is an honor, and helps me focus on my studies, gain connections, network with other individuals within the diversity, equity, and inclusion space, and find a community,” he said.
Dean’s Scholars at the 2024 Pinning Ceremony. Photo courtesy of Roger William Photography.
Lessons in Large Animal Medicine—From a Fiberglass Cow
December 6, 2024
With a new simulator, vet students can practice delivering a calf in a realistic (but lower-stakes) way; all that’s missing is the ‘moo’.
Prof. Taika von Königslöw and graduate student Tyler Ward position the calf inside the teaching cow to prepare for a birth simulation. (Photo by Sreang Hok / Cornell University)
October 15, 2024
Tyler Ward received his AAS and BS in Veterinary Science Technology from State University of New York (SUNY) Delhi, where the first veterinary technician program in the U.S. got its start in the 1960s. Ward currently works at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where he is a PhD student under the advisement of AABP member Dr. Taika von Konigslow.
Ward thinks AABP is moving in the right direction and can keep doing what it is currently. “Give a space for technicians to have a seat at the table when it comes to rural practice, food animal medicine, and herd health!” Long term, he would like to work in academia as he has found a strong passion for teaching veterinary professionals. “I want to continue to connect the areas of my degrees/skills of the LVT, MPH and hopefully, in four years, PhD, to help teach the next generation of veterinary professionals, animal scientists, and farmers!”
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