Symposium Update, part 2

The second day of the SAVMA House of Delegates is flying by and it's hard to believe we're almost finished with our meeting! Today we held the elections for our new officer positions and the future site of SAVMA Symposium 2012. The winners are: Joe Esch for President-elect, Rayne Johnson for International Exchange Officer-elect and Claire McPhee for Global and Public Health Officer-elect. Congratulations to these guys. I know they are going to be good additions to the SAVMA Executive Committee.

The winner of the 2012 SAVMA Symposium bid was....

On the international front, please check out the opportunities available to SAVMA Students at the 59th Annual IVSA Congress. The International Veterinary Student Association will be hosting the Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark this year from July 8-18th, 2010. All SAVMA members are eligible to attend this congress and it's a great way to get to know students from all around the world. Registration is open until March 31, 2010, so hurry up and register! More information can be found at www.ivsadenmark.dk

Live from Madison...it's Thursday morning!!!

 

SAVMA Symposium is here and we are set to take over Madison! Your SAVMA delegates are hard at work already this morning with the 8am start of the SAVMA House of Delegates meeting. It's so nice to see the bright, shining faces of so many dedicated students. Today is an exciting day in the HOD--we will hear nominations for the President-elect, International Exchange Officer-elect and Global and Public Health Officer Ad-hoc-elect (that's a mouthful) positions and we will also take bids for the location of SAVMA 2012. Where's it gonna be? I can't wait to find out! Feel free to stop by the meeting once you get to Madison; we'd love to share with you what it is we do in all those meetings. The SAVMA HOD will be meeting all Thursday and Friday in Ballroom A at the Monona Terrace.

Women > Men (in numbers, that is)

By: Elizabeth Wormley

Iowa State Univeristy, Class of 2011

My, how times have changed. Not too long ago, my great aunt was essentially told to not even bother applying to veterinary school, as it was a man’s job. When taking a career aptitude test in high school (the year was 1959), her result was “farmer’s wife,” as that would be a good way for her to interact with and care for the animals she so adored.

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Oreo and Jesse

By: Jun Yu

Class of 2012, Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine

Pencil drawing

Pigs...In...Space! (Oops, I meant Nebraska!)

By: Ruth West

Class of 2011, University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine

I am a junior at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine with an interest in swine medicine. UF does operate a small swine unit just off of campus, where I lived and worked for a year, yet I was very interested in seeing some large operation swine units and finding out for myself what working as a food animal veterinarian was all about.

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