Maxwell Swine Scholarship
A $5000 scholarship will be awarded to a Graduate Student(s) from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine or the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Calgary.
A second $5000 scholarship will be awarded to a DVM Graduate from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine or the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Calgary.
WCASV Swine DVM Graduate Scholarship
WCASV Maxwell Swine Graduate Student Scholarship
2023 Maxwell Award Recipients
Maxwell DVM Scholarship
Dr. Hayley Bowling
Following graduation in June 2023, Dr. Bowling joined Prairie Livestock Veterinarians based in Red Deer and Lethbridge, AB where she will be practicing both swine and poultry medicine. She has special interests in pathology, epidemiology, food safety, and animal welfare. She is excited to join such a progressive and innovative industry and hopes to help swine producers to be as successful and sustainable as possible while the industry continues to evolve.
Maxwell Graduate Student Scholarship
Arthur Nery Finatto
After graduating from veterinary medicine at the University of Passo Fundo, Arthur pursued an MSc in Experimental Epidemiology Applied to Zoonotic Diseases at the University of São Paulo. Arthur is currently a third-year PhD student in Large Animal Clinical Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan. He is actively engaged in multiple research projects focused on swine health including his PhD project which revolves around the biological characterization of a novel antimicrobial molecule found within the immune system of swine. His goal is to work in a swine genetics and breeding company and has been accepted for an internship at Topigs Norsvin Research Center in The Netherlands.
Roman Nosach
Roman was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and attended Bila Tserkva Agricultural University, Veterinary Department. After graduation, he worked as a veterinarian at a collective farm and also had a private mixed animal practice. In 2007, he immigrated to Canada and worked as a farm worker in northern Saskatchewan. From 2009 to 2013, he worked as a lab technician in the Department of Soil Science at the University of Saskatchewan. He participated in a project assessing the bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. After completing this project, he became a research technician in the molecular microbiology laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan from 2013 to 2023. Roman is currently a Masters Student at WCVM.
Past Maxwell Swine Scholarship Recipients
- 2022 – Svetlana Ponsin and Darian Polluck
- 2021 – Sulove Koirala
- 2020 – Juan Camilo Parra Aguirre
- 2019 – Mariia Tokareva and Teryn Girard
- 2018 – Guilherme Rizzato and Javier Zarate
- 2017 – Jared Rothwell and Vinicius Viana
- 2016 – Carolina Malgarin and Diana Rodriguez
- 2015 – Jessica Law and Matheus Costa
WCASV WCVM Graduate Award
Dr. Hayley Bowling grew up in Calgary, Alberta and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a BSc. in Animal Bioscience. During her undergraduate studies, she developed a strong interest in production animal health and welfare, which continued during her studies at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine.
Following graduation in June 2023, she joined Prairie Livestock Veterinarians based in Red Deer and Lethbridge, AB where she will be practicing both swine and poultry medicine. She has special interests in pathology, epidemiology, food safety, and animal welfare. She is excited to join such a progressive and innovative industry and hopes to help swine producers to be as successful and sustainable as possible while the industry continues to evolve.
Lifetime Membership Award
- 2021 – Dr. Betty Althouse
- 2020 – Dr. Chris Byra and Dr. Mark Jacobson
- 2018 – Mike Sheridan and Neil Shantz
- 2017 – Al Theede
- Previous years
- Bill Stone
- Jim Sawatsky
- Chuck Rhodes
Travel Bursaries
WCVM Recipients
- 2018 – Joel Ballard
- 2016 – Julia Hamilton, Tara Vielfaure, Samantha Goosen, Luke Nickel, Christian Scott, Brianna Thiemann, and Cordell Young
Scholarship
WCVM Recipients
- 2023 – Hayley Bowling
- 2021-2022 – Svetlana Ponsin
- 2020-2021 – Kaitlyn Crocker and Nicole Cressman
- 2018-2019 – Joel Ballard
- 2017-2018 – Lauren Redies
- 2016-2017 – Cordell Young
- 2014-2015 – Melissa Desrochers
- 2013-2014 – Monica Schott
- 2012-2013 – Edward Rasmussen
- 2011-2012 – Jenesa Banman
- 2010-2011 – Jennifer Demare
- 2009-2010 – Kurt Preugschas
- 2008-2009 –Leo Kenny
- 2007-2008 – Joshua Lindenback
- 2006-2007 – Kevin Oomah
- 2005-2006 – Marie Legault
- 2004-2005 – Lina Johannson
- 2003-2004 – Leanne Bargen