In Basic Science:
1st place,  Dr. Elizabeth Davis, Clinical Resident
2nd place, Dr. Guolong Zhang, Graduate Student in Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology
3rd place,  Dr. Sanjeevkumar Narayanan, Graduate Student in Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology

In Clinical Science:
1st place, Dr. Julie Fischer, Clinical Resident
2nd Place, Chris Kunze, Junior in the College of Veterinary Medicine
3rd Place, Dr. Michelle Wall, Clinical Intern

Clinical Case Report:
Jean Sonnenfield, Junior in the College of Veterinary Medicine

Novartis Award for best paper by a sophomore Veterinary Student in Veterinary Parasitology:
Jeanne Howell

C. Truman and Elizabeth J. Jones Award to a freshman veterinary student in the top 15% of their class:
David Detweiler

Miller Pathology Award for proficiency in Veterinary Pathology:
Shannon Bayliff, Junior in the College of Veterinary Medicine

Dr. R. H. Spencer Memorial Award for a student from Kansas or Nebraska with an interest in large animal medicine and surgery:
Byron Bachman, Junior in the College of Veterinary Medicine

Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence ($1,000):
Dr. George Stewart, Associate Professor in the Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology

The American Veterinary Medicine Foundation Bayer Excellence in Equine Research Award for the year 2000 was announced:
Dr. Howard Erickson, Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Physiology. The award will actually be made at a later date.

A special Phi Zeta recognition was given this year
to Dr. Jon Dunn to recognize his outstanding work in promoting scholarship and research and mentoring developing scientists in the Department of Anatomy and Physiology and in the College of Veterinary Medicine.