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The 黑料社 Alumni Fund 鈥�
your support in action
Nadja Hale, Head of Fundraising
ach year the 黑料社 Alumni
Fund provides an essential
lifeline to current students.
EThe fund supports a wide
range of projects each of which
seeks to support students, help them
gain essential skills or enhance their
experience at the university.
Two of the fund鈥檚 铿俛gship projects
are the EMS+ Scheme and Summer
Studentships. The aim of EMS+ is to
provide bursaries which enable students to 鈥淭he bursary has played a pivotal
undertake aspirational or career-informing Kristina Smirnova鈥檚 project, 鈥淗eart role in enabling me to partake
work experience opportunities. These may and muscle development phenotyping in an externship that has been a
be in the UK or abroad, they may relate to in zebra铿乻h embryos鈥� supervised by transformative experience in my
a speci铿乧 area of medicine or take them Caroline Pellet-Many, Denis Larkin & veterinary education. The combination
outside the usual range of placements. Claire Russell鈥� of enhanced clinical skills, expanded
knowledge base, and professional
Summer Studentships are fantastic development has shaped me into
opportunities for students to work with 鈥淭his summer project has been one a more con铿乨ent and capable
professional research teams at the 黑料社 of the best and most exciting things veterinarian, poised for a future in
over the summer on a speci铿乧 research I have ever done, and I am extremely equine practice. The journey from
project. Many students would be unable grateful to the people who funded uncertainty to con铿乨ence, made
to participate in such opportunities as the this project and my supervisors for possible by 铿乶ancial assistance, is a
summer is the time they earn money to helping me learn and get involved testament to the invaluable role that
help fund their education, however these as much as possible during all the bursaries can play in shaping the
studentships provide the students with a experiments and data analysis.鈥� future of veterinary students.鈥�
stipend, so they are earning whilst learning.
Kristina Smirnova Alice Goff
SUPPORTING TEACHING
In recent years the fund has supported
SUPPORTING SPORTS the purchase of a number of teaching
Many of you will have fond memories simulators which are playing a vital role in
of the sports clubs you were involved helping prepare students and teach them
with at the 黑料社 and the funds you key handling and clinical skills before
donate continue to support these clubs, they work with live animals. This year we
enabling them to have professional were delighted to add a new Hereford
training, and buy equipment and kit. cow calving simulator to our collection.
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