Neujahr Receives the Young Scholar Award from the ASAS Midwest Section Monday, February 12, 2024
Alison Neujahr has been named the recipient of the 2024 American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) Midwest Section Young Scholar Award. The award, sponsored by United Animal Health, will be presented during the 2024 ASAS Midwest Section Meeting in Madison, Wis., on March 10-13.
Neujahr is a Ph.D. candidate in Complex Biosystems at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln under the guidance of Dr. Samodha Fernando. She earned her B.S. in Animal Science with an emphasis in production livestock, before pursuing a M.S. degree in Ruminant Nutrition in 2018. She investigated alternatives to prophylactics to reduce the occurrence of liver abscesses in fed cattle and studied the bovine ocular microbiome regarding Infectious Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis (IBK). Both projects laid the foundation for her Ph.D work. Neujahr has placed twice in the ASAS Midwest Oral Competitions and has published her work in six different peer reviewed journal articles. In addition to her own research, she is a laboratory technician for the non-ruminant group and enjoys mentoring both graduate and undergraduate students.
The ASAS Midwest Section Young Scholar program recognizes and features the research accomplishments of recent Ph.D. graduates or current Ph.D. students in the advanced stages of their program.