2007 Winners
The NMPF Scholarship Committee awarded $12,000 in scholarships to four Ph.D. and graduate level students pursuing research in the dairy industry. The four scholarship recipients were all conducting research in areas that would benefit dairy cooperatives and producers.
The Murray Hintz Memorial Scholarship, which is given to the top scholarship candidate, was awarded to Marcus Hollmann. Hollmann was pursuing his Ph.D. in Animal Science at Michigan State University. His research addressed the mitigation of methane emissions for both pre- and post- excretion in the cow. This timely research provided feed management strategies to reduce and quantify the reduction of methane emissions from dairy animals.
The three other scholarship recipients were as follows:
- Gregory Golombeski, a student from the University of Minnesota, was pursuing his Ph.D. in Animal Science. Golombeski's research focused on enhancing the trace mineral status of replacement heifers through transition cow management.
- Jessica Wheelock, a Ph.D. student from the University of Arizona, was researching the effects of heat stress on liver glucose production in lactating Holstein cows.
- Nicole Olynk was pursuing her master's degree in Agriculture Economics at Michigan State University. Olynk's research aimed to help producers make reproductive management decisions by developing a user-friendly computer program.
2006 Winners
In 2006, $11,000 in scholarships were given to five Ph.D. and graduate level students pursuing research in the dairy industry.
This year, NMPF awarded the first ever Murray Hintz Memorial Scholarship to the top scholarship candidate. The Hintz Memorial Scholarship was established to honor Murray Hintz following his death in 2005. Hintz served as Chairman of the Board for Cass-Clay Creamery, Inc., one of the cooperatives who played a key role in establishing the NMPF Scholarship Program.
For 2006, the Murray Hintz Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Nora Bello, who was pursuing her Ph.D. in Animal Science at Michigan State University. Bello’s research was in dairy cattle reproduction where she looked at increasing the fertility and conception rates in lactating dairy cows by controlling the size of the follicle.
The other four scholarship recipients are listed below:
- Clark Bishop, a student from Washington State University, was pursuing his master’s degree in Applied Economics. He examined the economic analysis of high quality fiber and fertilizers as co-products from anaerobic digesters.
- Nicole Janovick Guretzky, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois, was researching the influence of varying the energy consumption on fatty liver disease in dairy cows.
- Kevin Harvatine, a Ph.D. candidate from Cornell University, was conducting research on ruminal biohydrogenation for producer profitability and consumer health.
- Sarah K. Ivan was pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland. She researched the effect of dietary protein concentration and varying levels of rumen degradable and undegradable protein on nitrogen recycling in lactating cows.