Medical school is in the plans for Sydney Swatzell when she graduates from WSU this spring. The Spokane, Washington, native and West Valley High School graduate is currently pursuing a degree in neuroscience and specializing in pre-medicine.
Kylie Abaya is a fourth-year veterinary student at WSU and is on track to earn her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine this May.
As a student ambassador, Maddy Boehland can answer questions about WSU’s veterinary program
Carson Carruthers has spent her time at WSU gaining valuable research and building relationships she hopes will help get her accepted into a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program after she graduates in May. Originally from Vancouver, Washington, Carson is a genetics and cellular biology major on the pre-veterinary track.
Associate professor Samantha Gizerian was destined to be a physicist but fell in love with neuroscience, particularly the developing brain, along the way. Attracted to the collaborative academic atmosphere, Dr. Gizerian has been at Washington State University for 11 years. She teaches the first course (Neuroscience 105) and last course (Neuroscience 490) in WSU’s neuroscience […]
Born into a Cougar family, Sarah Guess was destined to be a lifelong Coug. A Spokane native, Dr. Guess received both her undergraduate and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees at Washington State University. Dr. Guess went on to specialize in small animal internal medicine through the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Now she teaches […]
Raised in an Air Force family, Audrey Almeria has spent her life traveling and living all over the world, and she even graduated high school in Misawa, Japan. But she has found a home at Washington State University, where she is double majoring in psychology and neuroscience and will graduate this coming spring. When she leaves Pullman, Audrey hopes to attend medical school and pursue family medicine.
After graduation Jace Jernberg will be returning to central Idaho to work at Lone Pine Animal Hospital.
Chris Dumas is a licensed veterinary technician with the Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s small animal surgery team.
Dr. Arden Baylink joined the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology in 2022 and established his lab to focus on engineering new therapeutics against bacterial gastrointestinal pathogens.