ATLANTA — Merck Animal Health, in partnership with the Poultry Science Association Foundation, has awarded a $100,000 poultry science research scholarship to Maria Arendt at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The check for the Merck Animal Health Graduate Fellowship was presented during Merck's fourth annual Culinary Tour of Nations held during the recent International Production & Processing Expo.
Arendt is a doctoral student at the university. Her work is on the "role of interleukin-10 expression during Eimeria infection."
There were 22 applications for this year's Graduate Fellowship.
The Fellowship is awarded to an "outstanding student in poultry. . .