Thomas Riegel receives 2015 Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine Outstanding Graduating Student Award

20 Apr 2015

Thomas Riegel of Glasgow, Virginia, received Virginia Tech’s 2015 Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine Outstanding Senior Award.

Sponsored by the Virginia Tech Alumni Association and the senior class, the Outstanding Senior Award recognizes exceptional academic achievement and leadership by a graduating senior from each of the university’s eight colleges. Recipients have a minimum grade point average of 3.75 on a 4.0 scale and are selected by faculty and students within the respective colleges.

In 2009, he earned his bachelor’s degree in biology with a Chinese language minor from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He will receive his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree during the University Commencement ceremony May 15 in Lane Stadium.

Riegel is member of the Gamma Sigma Delta Agriculture Honor Society, received the Robert C. Brown Career Life Sciences Award in Leadership in 2013 and 2014, and served as a research assistant, student member on the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine dean’s search committee, and as a student interviewer for the college’s Class of 2018 applicants.

He is founding member and journal club chair of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine Surgery Club, is the Class of 2015president, and is a member of the student chapter of the American Veterinary Medicine Association and the Veterinary Business Management Association.

Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech takes a hands-on, engaging approach to education, preparing scholars to be leaders in their fields and communities. As the commonwealth’s most comprehensive university and its leading research institution, Virginia Tech offers 240 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to more than 31,000 students and manages a research portfolio of $513 million. The university fulfills its land-grant mission of transforming knowledge to practice through technological leadership and by fueling economic growth and job creation locally, regionally, and across Virginia.