WSU neuroscience students awarded Peter Zornes memorial scholarship
Katie Sciarrotta and Sophie Shirali are the latest recipients of the Peter A. Zornes Memorial Neuroscience Scholarship.
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Decades after tragic death, DVM alum still helping others
More than three decades after the Dr. Mark Strother Endowed Scholarship was established to honor the legacy of Mark Strother, who tragically died in a climbing accident, the fund is still helping Cougs achieve their dreams.
A lifetime friendship inspires College of Veterinary Medicine scholarship
As a child in Woodburn, Oregon, Lanny Skovborg (’67 DVM) took long walks with his mother down the country roads of this rural community. Along the way, they would stop to watch the cows and horses grazing in the fields. “These are my earliest childhood memories, and this is when I decided to become a […]
Dr. Thomas Montgomery
Born and raised in Havre, Montana, Tom graduated from Havre High School in 1972. In the early 1970s, he developed lymphosarcoma of the colon. In addition to removing the cancerous tumor, a splenectomy was done. In August 1974, Tom married Lynn Engleson, his friend and classmate from Havre. Tom graduated magna cum laude from Whitman […]
Record-breaking $1.1 million awarded to College of Veterinary Medicine students
The College of Veterinary Medicine awarded more than $1.1 million in internal funds to residents, interns, graduate students, and veterinary students in 2022, a record for the college.
Dr. R. Keith Farrell Memorial Funds
R. Keith Farrell is remembered for his enthusiasm for veterinary medicine and his contagious personal energy. He believed, “If something isn’t fun, it’s not worth doing.” The people he met, worked with, and taught, made his teaching and research a continual joy. Farrell particularly enjoyed his contacts with students through his teaching, and with fellow […]
Neuroscience Scholarship awarded
Olivia Willis and Jacob Foster, senior neuroscience students pursuing a pre-medicine track in Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, are the 2021 recipients of the Peter A. Zornes Memorial Neuroscience Scholarship.
Cougs give back: Support from an alumnus to a future veterinarian
When Cord Kivi receives his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine this spring, he hopes to honor a veterinarian and Coug alumnus whom he’s never met.
Bill Johnson’s Annual Ride for Animals
The idea for the ride began when Johnson’s Golden retriever “Sonny” was lost to canine lymphoma in 2006. The route retraces his friend’s last days when the two would travel back and forth to WSU for cancer treatments. The Sonny Angel, Cody Jo, and Annie Marie’s Gift of Hope Endowment was established by Johnson in memory […]
The Charles C. Mellinger III Endowed Scholarship in Veterinary Medicine
After Charles finished his freshman year at WSU in pre-veterinary medicine he went home for the summer and was looking forward to returning in the fall. But the night before returning to Pullman, the car Charles and his roommate were driving was struck by another car. Charles’ roommate was killed in the accident and Charles […]