Professor Warwick Bayly was presented the Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence, largely for his work in equine exercise and performance science, during the 26th annual College of Veterinary Medicine Research Symposium.
Since 1985, high-profile research faculty in the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine have been recognized with the annual honor for their advancements in the veterinary field.
Bayly, a former college dean, university provost, Veterinary Teaching Hospital director, and renowned equine researcher, said the award wouldn’t be possible without the colleagues who have helped him along the way.
“It would be very wrong of me not to thank other people because in the words of another very influential veterinarian who used to work at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Carl Osborne, ‘Art is I, science is we,’ ” Bayly said. “I am not standing here because of what I have done. I am standing here because I have been fortunate to have some amazing collaborators and colleagues who are also friends.”
Bayly is board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in large animal internal medicine and co-author of the renowned textbook “Equine Internal Medicine.” He is also author of about 200 scientific papers, full length conference proceedings, and text-book chapters related to equine internal medicine and exercise science.
Michael Letko, an assistant professor and molecular virologist in the college’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, was the recipient of the Dean’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award.
Sponsored by the dean, the award is designed to recognize outstanding junior faculty who are already establishing themselves as innovators and leaders in their chosen fields. Faculty who are pre-tenure or clinical track faculty within six years of starting their independent research careers are eligible.
Awards were also distributed to student researchers from five categories: undergraduate student, graduate student, postdoctoral researcher, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine student/intern, and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine resident.
Out of all undergraduate researchers, Eva Rickard received first place in the undergraduate student category for her poster; Riana Abeshima received second place in the undergraduate research category.
Ana Rangel received first place in the graduate student category; Mustika Rahmawati received second place in the category. Mingyao Yang topped the post-doctoral researchers’ category; Sara Westbrook received second place. Grace Scrafford received the research award out of the veterinary student/intern pool, and Lyndsey Werhane earned second place in the category. In the DVM resident category, Lela Remington received first place and Zuzanna Pietras earned second place.