The American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior is inviting submission of applications for a Student Chapter Service Award. This award will honor the student chapter that demonstrated the highest number of club meetings, educational activities, and individual involvement. The winning entry receives a cash award of $500.

AVSAB student chapters should submit a detailed list of activities that the club and / or its members organized and attended between July 1 2010 and June 1 2011, including the following categories:

• Behavior meetings that the club organized
  (e.g. field trips, lectures, wet labs for students and veterinarians)
• Behavior meetings that club members attended
  (e.g. continuing education seminars at veterinary meetings, training seminars)
• Community outreach and Public education organized by the club or its members
  (e.g. volunteer activities, fund raisers, open house booth, training classes)
• Volunteer activities of club members in the area of animal behavior
  (e.g. shelter programs, wildlife centers, pet visitation programs, grief counseling, open house booth, fund raisers)
• Behavior research projects conducted by club members.
• Other relevant activities of the behavior club or its members.

The application must include the name and address of the chapter president and faculty adviser.

Students: consider joining the AVSAB Yahoo Electronic Listserv. This electronic bulletin board will allow individual students and Student Chapters to exchange ideas in what types of animal behavior related activities you or your chapter can consider. You can also excahnge questions and concerns in dealing with behavior related issues or in running a student chapter. Just go to the Veterinary Student Menu of the AVSAB web site and click on the Student Chapter Listserv (Yahoo) Link. You will be taken to the home page to begin the process of joining the group.

Congratulations to the Colorado State University SCAVSAB in winning the 2010 AVSAB Student Chapter Award. Here is their winning entry. Something for the rest of the chapters to shoot for?

2010 Student Chapter Award Winning Entry from Colorado State U.

Send applications to:

Dr. Laurie Bergman

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Submission deadline:

June 15th, 2011

1. Are you a veterinary student with an interest in animal behavior?
2. Would you like to dazzle your colleagues with your brilliance?
3. Would you like to win $$$$?

If you answered "YES" to any of these questions, apply for the:

American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior's
'Award for Student Excellence in Applied Animal Behavior Research'

The winner will receive a cash prize of $1500 (From Premier Pet Products) and present his/her paper at the AVSAB/ACVB annual meeting on July 15, 2011, in St. Louis, MO. The runner-up will provide a poster and receive a $500 prize.

Recent winning topics include:

• Beef cattle responses to noises
• Non-aversive trailer-loading training for horses
• Owner compliance and the treatment of aggressive dogs
• Feline toy preferences
• Validation of in-shelter temperament tests by correlation with post-adoption owner surveys

For more information, contact Dr. Laurie Bergman, DACVB ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Application Deadline: April 1, 2011

Congratulation to the 2010 Student Research Award Winner:

Alexandra Moore - University of California-Davis

"Evaluation of Behavioral Assessments of Newly=Relinquished Shelter Cats"

$1500 Award sponsored by Premier Pet Products