The Patricia M Lowrie Diversity Leadership Scholarship recognizes veterinary students who have demonstrated exemplary promise as future leaders and have made significant contributions to enhancing diversity and inclusion in academic veterinary medicine.

The scholarship honors individuals who have consistently championed efforts to address inequities and under representation in the veterinary profession, have advocated for social justice, and have advanced initiatives to value diversity and inclusion within US colleges of veterinary medicine.  Plans are to award each scholarship biennially in the form of a one-time, $6,000 payment.

The scholarship will be awarded on odd-numbered years during the Iverson Bell Symposium.  The next award will be made in 2017.

Veterinary students must:

• Be a current second-, third-, or fourth-year student in good academic and professional standing at one of the 30 accredited American colleges/schools of veterinary medicine;
• Have a demonstrated record of contributing to enhancing diversity and inclusion through course projects, co-curricular activities, outreach, domestic and community engagement, research, and/or developed an early reputation for influencing others to be inclusive.

For more information, please contact Lisa Greenhill at lgreenhill@aavmc.org or (202) 371-9195 x147