Research Symposium

Samantha Hoerner, a senior animal science major from Dubuque, Iowa, received a Runner-up for Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation award for her presentation “Screening for the Causative Agent of White-nose Syndrome on Summer Bat Populations in Southwest Wisconsin.” Hoerner’s research examined and analyzed new genetic samples for Pseudogymnoascus destructans, a fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats.