Graduate student Dr. Chelsea Himsworth received a Young Investigator Award for her research poster at the American College of Veterinary Pathologists' annual meeting that took place from November 15 to 19 in San Antonio, Tex.

Himsworth, a Master of Veterinary Science (MVetSc) student in anatomic pathology at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, won the first-place prize and $500 in the poster competition's natural disease category. Her award-winning poster was entitled, "Destructive arthropathy in bovine fetuses: A possible association with Ureaplasma diversum infection?"

Supervised by Dr. Ted Leighton, Himsworth is in the second year of her graduate program that's based in WCVM's Department of Veterinary Pathology.

The ACVP Young Investigator Awards poster competition recognizes quality poster presentations by veterinary pathology residents and graduate students. Besides the natural disease category, judges also awarded prizes to students whose research focused on aspects in diagnostic pathology, experimental disease and toxicologic pathology.