UF veterinary student honored for essay
Melissa Bourgeois, a senior at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, recently received third place in the annual J. Fred Smithcors essay contest sponsored by the American Veterinary Medical History Society.
Held to encourage interest in history from students enrolled in veterinary medical colleges in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, the contest is named in honor of J. Fred Smithcors, D.V.M., Ph.D., founder of the AVMHS and an author of several books on veterinary history.
In addition to pursuing her veterinary degree at UF, Bourgeois is a candidate for the Ph.D. degree in the college's department of large animal clinical sciences. Her award-winning essay was titled "From 1946 to the Present ' NASA's Contributions to the Veterinary Medical Sciences."
She received $250, a copy of the Merck Veterinary Manual, a one-year subscription to the AVMHS newsletter and publication of all or part of her article in the newsletter.