Graduate Student, Animal Science
About
Laurie is pursuing her Ph.D. under the direction of Dr. Tom Overton in the Department of Animal Sciences at Cornell University. She is expecting to complete her degree in late 2010 or early 2011. Laurie was raised on her family's dairy farm in Southeast Wisconsin and maintains close ties to her dairy production background. She completed her B.S. in Dairy Science and Agricultural Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. She then went on to Ohio State and received her M.S. in Ruminant Nutrition and Physiology in 2005.
Her current research interests focus on milk protein synthesis in dairy cows, specifically nutritional and hormonal control of milk protein synthesis. In addition to her research research responsibilities at Cornell, she also works with undergraduate students routinely as the assistant coach of the dairy cattle judging team. Her future goals revolve around the integration of science and research with on-farm practices in the dairy industry.
