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Ten seniors from Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences presented their research projects on May 3 as part of the John Lee Pratt Animal Nutrition Senior Fellows program. The program promotes the study of animal nutrition across departments throughout the college.
The funding is made available through a bequest of John Lee Pratt, a native Virginian, cattle owner, and, at one time, the CEO of General Motors.
The Pratt endowment provides nearly $1 million a year to the college. Of that, about $150,000 is earmarked for scholarships and the senior research fellow program. The remainder is used for research equipment, bringing visiting scholars to Virginia Tech, and for graduate students’ research and stipends.
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Emi Scott and Bailey West may be majoring in different subjects within Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, but they have a great deal in common.
They are both members of the Class of 2012. They both developed their love for animals while spending considerable time on dairy farms as young children. And they both plan to go on to become large animal veterinarians in order to address the strong need for such doctors in their home region of Southwest Virginia.
In addition, both Scott and West are recipients of an extraordinarily generous scholarship funded by the late Margaret Groseclose “Peggy” Skelton, a former associate professor at Virginia Tech who died in July 2010.
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