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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.

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.

Microbiology major Alison Dockery dreams of one day becoming a small animal veterinarian, and she will be one step closer to that goal when she graduates from WSU this spring. Dockery moved from Dublin, Ireland, to the United States in 2011 and later graduated high school from Sammamish, Washington. She is majoring microbiology and is on the pre-veterinary track.

From Scottsdale, Arizona, Thomas Kile will attend a small animal emergency medicine internship after earning his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine this spring. His plan is to do more conservation work within the field in the coming years.