Great Grads
Great Grads – Sherrie Farmer O’Brien
UTCVM prepared graduate to embrace career changes
Here is a graduate who boasts a legacy spanning nearly half a century, dozens of organizations, and multiple continents
Aaron Woody uses his food science degree to literally make people happy. He helps the Coca-Cola Company create new offerings based on consumer feedback and product testing
Great Grads – Elizabeth Million
Veterinarian promotes the licensing assessments needed for ensuring newcomers to her field are successful and that they, in turn, can do their best to protect animal health and well-being
Meet a servant of people of Tennessee and the state’s agriculture producers
Say hello to a landscape architecture alumna who is re-envisioning her family’s century farm
Great Grads – Jean Proctor McNeil
As a Black youth in the 1970s, Jean Proctor McNeil found few mentors to encourage her to be a veterinarian. Yet she achieved that goal and went on to mentor dozens of future veterinarians as well as redefine how animal shelters operate.
Agricultural engineer Erin Webb credits mentors for assisting her life’s journey, one that has spanned everything from NASA studies on putting a greenhouse on Mars to heading an environmental research group at Oak Ridge National Lab.
Great Grads – Thomas H. Lederer
How does a New York state native end up with a Maine license plate that reads “GO VOLS?” For Thomas H. Lederer (MS agricultural economics ‘72, PhD agricultural economics ‘76)…
Great Grads – Leslie Sadeghi Brooks
It’s not a stretch to call alumni Leslie Sadeghi Brooks and Thomas Lederer visionaries and humanitarians. Meet two alumni who strive to see policy decisions that help people create better lives.
