Students at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine have access to all kinds of internships, externships and research experiences during their four years of school. This summer, a handful of students will be sharing their experiences as they take their classroom knowledge and apply it in the real world.

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ANIYA BROWN

Aniya Brown, a Delaware native and rising third-year student, is traveling over 8,000 miles this summer and is sending updates from a three-week extramural experience service trip with Live4Now W!ld Vets in South Africa.

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ERIS MIHELIC

Eris Mihelic, a rising third-year student is an Alabama native and Harvard graduate. She is spending three weeks in Peru volunteering with the Rainforest Awareness Rescue Education Center, an animal rehabilitation center and wildlife sanctuary in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. 

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KATIE FORREST

Katie Forrest, another member of the Class of 2027, is a Raleigh, North Carolina, native and a Food Animal Scholar. This summer, she is spending eight weeks at Prairie View Veterinary Clinic in Miller, South Dakota.

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ABIGALE PATTEN

Meet Abigale Patten, a North Carolina native with an undergraduate degree in animal sciences from NC State. She’s a fourth-year student who just started her clinical rotations and she’s taking us behind the scenes of a handful of her rotations, both on and off the College of Veterinary Medicine’s campus.

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MADI WALKER

Rising third-year student Madi Walker is spending several days in Moab, Utah volunteering with the Underdog Animal Rescue and assisting at a veterinary clinic at the Sweetwater Chapter House, which serves the Navajo Nation in Arizona.

Read about her experience

JESS KERN

Fourth-year student Jess Kern spent three weeks as an extern at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center working on sea turtles, stingrays and marine mammals as a part of her clinical year rotations.

Read about her experience

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