{"id":66563,"date":"2008-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-named-top-animal-science-student-in-northeast\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-named-top-animal-science-student-in-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/05\/uri-student-named-top-animal-science-student-in-northeast\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student named top animal science student in Northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tSomers, Conn., resident to graduate May 18; then on to vet school<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 8, 2008 \u2013 It would have been difficult for Rachael Gately to accomplish much more as an undergraduate student at the 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe served as president of the University\u2019s Animal and Veterinary Science Club, received the President\u2019s Excellence Award as the top animal science student at 溏心vlog免费B站, and was awarded a Udall Scholarship, the nation\u2019s most prestigious scholarship for students preparing for environmental careers.<\/p>\n


\n\tTo top off her four years at 溏心vlog免费B站, she won the Outstanding Senior Award at the Northeast Student Affiliate conference at Delaware Valley College last month, where students from 13 colleges competed in livestock judging and other animal science contests.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cPenn State is always a powerhouse at the meeting, though 溏心vlog免费B站 is inching closer to knocking them off every year,\u201d Gately said. \u201c溏心vlog免费B站 has never even nominated someone for the outstanding senior award before, so never did I ever think I\u2019d beat the Penn State students for the award.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tOne of Gately\u2019s most meaningful experiences during her college career occurred as a result of winning the Udall Scholarship. In addition to providing her with funds to help pay for her senior year in college, it also provided her with a trip to Arizona to meet other Udall Scholars.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt was an amazing four days of meeting with environmental and political leaders from around the country, touring the area, and working on some group projects,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were treated like celebrities in Tucson, and I got to spend time with some of the most amazing people my age in the whole country.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAs Gately prepares to graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 18, she is looking forward to enrolling in veterinary school in the fall at Texas A&M University.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019ll probably become a large animal vet, because there aren\u2019t many of them left in New England,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I may also decide to go the avenue of public health. Zoonotic diseases \u2013 those that can be passed from animals to humans, like mad cow disease and avian influenza \u2013 are fascinating, and public health is so very important.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tGately\u2019s interest in becoming a large animal veterinarian emerged early. She has tended a flock of up to 50 sheep since elementary school, and she has won numerous national awards for her animals at livestock shows. She has worked at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Peckham Farm, where students learn to raise and care for livestock, since her freshman year, and during lambing season she almost never leaves the farm.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThis year was a bad year for lambing all over the region,\u201d she said. \u201cWe lost a couple of adults and a couple of lambs at Peckham Farm, and I lost 70 percent of this year\u2019s lamb crop at home to a disease.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBut it hasn\u2019t discouraged the 溏心vlog免费B站 student.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u201cI\u2019m going on 16 years of running the farm I live on at home, starting with just a couple of pets,\u201d Gately explained. \u201cIn the last couple of years I\u2019ve received some big grants from the Natural Resources Conservation Service to rework my land so the animals don\u2019t abuse it. When I\u2019m done, I\u2019ll have the optimal facility for raising livestock.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tSoon, she will also have the optimal skills and training to help ensure the health of livestock throughout the region.<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications & Marketing photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somers, Conn., resident to graduate May 18; then on to vet school KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 8, 2008 \u2013 It would have been difficult for Rachael Gately to accomplish much more as an undergraduate student at the 溏心vlog免费B站. She served as president of the University\u2019s Animal and Veterinary Science Club, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}