BVA Supports Veterinary Students On Overseas Projects
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The BVA travel scholarship scheme, instituted in March 1983, awards grants annually to veterinary students to enable them to undertake projects in developing countries.
From a large number of high calibre applications the 2009 student travel grants were awarded to:3493 views
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28th September, 2009 00h00
- Abi Collinson (RVC) for a feasibility study for provision of community based animal healthcare system in Kharekhari village, Rajasthan, India;
- Holly Marsh (Cambridge) to study the role of Borana women in transmission and prevention of mastitis in Borana cattle, Ethiopia;
- Ashley Morgan (Glasgow) to study the health and welfare status of domestic cats in the Serengeti, Tanzania; and
- Alexander Torrance (Cambridge) to investigate the relationship between immunosuppression, ectoparasite burden and the occurrence of patchy alopecia in the Straw Coloured Fruit Bat in Tanzania.
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