National DHIA offers veterinary student scholarships

If you’re a third- or fourth-year college of veterinary medicine student, apply for the National Dairy Herd Information Association (DHIA) veterinary medicine scholarships. Applicants must be enrolled at a college that is accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education. Successful applicants will receive a $1,500 scholarship.

To apply for a National DHIA Veterinary Student Scholarship, applicants must submit a letter of application and two reference letters. The letter of application requires students to submit information regarding their area of interest/specialty, academic background, experience using DHI data, career plans, issues challenging dairy veterinary medicine and solutions to address those challenges. For more information, contact Elizabeth “Liz” Straw, National DHIA scholarship chair, at: efarrow@purdue.edu.

Specific application requirements are posted on the National DHIA website (https://dhia.org/scholarships). Send completed applications to Liz Straw (efarrow@purdue.edu) by Dec. 31. Recipients will be announced at the National DHIA Leadership Sessions and 62nd Annual Meeting, being held March 2-4, Fort Worth, Texas.

National DHIA Scholarship Committee members will evaluate applicants based on overall interest as a veterinarian planning to work in dairy, involvement in dairy medicine and extra-curricular activities, and interest in using dairy software and dairy records to aid in dairy management and in improving animal health.

National Dairy Herd Information Association, a trade association for the dairy records industry, serves the best interests of its members and the dairy industry by maintaining the integrity of dairy records and advancing dairy information systems.