STORIES

Knee-deep into her fourth-year of veterinary school at WSU, Kady’s dream of working with dog breeders to raise healthy, happy puppies is close to becoming reality.

Dr. Winter works closely with the Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s exotics team.

After graduation, pair will join MedVet’s Emergency Clinician Mentorship Program

Ally, a Bozeman native and fourth-year veterinary student, plans to go into small animal emergency medicine after graduation.

Twelve years after arriving in the U.S. from France, Ayne recently started a one-year internship specializing in diagnostic imaging at WSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

As a child, Tara Powers dreamed of being an astronaut, but she decided the stars weren’t for her after she found space camp to be a bore. So, the then pre-teen from a Spokane family of engineers set off to find her own science. Tara is now a fourth-year veterinary student from St. George’s University […]

Surgery resident at home at WSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

Kirby Marden “despises” human feet, but she can’t seem to get enough cat-toe beans and dog pawprints. Kirby, a product of Richland, Washington, hopes to return to the Tri Cities next summer to work at a small animal practice where there will be no shortage of paws. While she hopes to focus on dogs and […]

Kalyn Wees wanted to go to medical school, but after working in a human clinic as a scribe she realized she would rather help people in a different field of medicine. Come May, Kalyn will be a second-generation veterinarian, following in the footsteps of her mom. “I’ve always had veterinary medicine in my life and […]

Riley Butler (’23 DVM), a third-year veterinary student at WSU, is interested in small animal general practice and future practice ownership. She is originally from the Seattle area and grew up with an assortment of backyard pets, from cats to chickens and goats. Her passion for science and love of animals steered her toward a […]