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(Ohio State)",{"url":11,"transcript":19},{"text":11},"Kalyna Kulchytsky: On the fast track to vet school",{"title":22,"description":23,"imageUrl":24},"From Undergraduate to Vet School: A Fast Track Fueled by Research","Ohio State junior Kalyna Kulchytsky is heading straight to veterinary school, turning early research, mentorship and campus involvement into a career focused on infectious disease and public health.\r\n","https://editing.intcomm.osu.edu/sites/default/files/media/image/2026/04/kalyna_social.jpg",[26,33,39,45,51,57,63,69,79,85,91,97,103,109,115,121,128],{"blockName":27,"attrs":28,"innerBlocks":30,"innerHTML":31,"innerContent":32},"core/paragraph",{"uuid":29},"230e5786",[],"\u003Cp class=\"bux-paragraph\">As a junior majoring in \u003Ca href=\"https://ansci.osu.edu/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"bux-link\">animal sciences\u003C/a>, Kalyna Kulchytsky applied to \u003Ca href=\"https://vet.osu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"bux-link\">Ohio State’s highly ranked veterinary school\u003C/a> “on a whim,” not expecting much.  \u003C/p>",[31],{"blockName":27,"attrs":34,"innerBlocks":36,"innerHTML":37,"innerContent":38},{"uuid":35},"3f6795a7",[],"\u003Cp class=\"bux-paragraph\">Instead, she was accepted and will begin pursuing her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree this summer, skipping the traditional path of finishing a bachelor’s degree first. \u003C/p>",[37],{"blockName":27,"attrs":40,"innerBlocks":42,"innerHTML":43,"innerContent":44},{"uuid":41},"9b182284",[],"\u003Cp class=\"bux-paragraph\">“I don’t know many people doing this and the requirements are still rigorous but because there’s a huge shortage of vets across America they’re allowing this path,” said Kulchytsky, who not only completed all the necessary undergrad requirements but boasts a wealth of research and volunteer experience in her time in at research facilities in Columbus and \u003Ca href=\"https://wooster.osu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"bux-link\">Wooster\u003C/a>. \u003C/p>",[43],{"blockName":27,"attrs":46,"innerBlocks":48,"innerHTML":49,"innerContent":50},{"uuid":47},"08fe2454",[],"\u003Cp class=\"bux-paragraph\">The research aspect especially is what she’s gravitated toward since starting at Ohio State, and she is considering focusing more on the scientific wing of veterinary medicine. It’s an area of veterinary work that sparks from her experiences within assistant professor \u003Ca href=\"https://vet.osu.edu/people/cody-warren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"bux-link\">Cody Warren’s lab at Ohio State. \u003C/a>  \u003C/p>",[49],{"blockName":27,"attrs":52,"innerBlocks":54,"innerHTML":55,"innerContent":56},{"uuid":53},"5b7bb1bb",[],"\u003Cp class=\"bux-paragraph\">“My senior year of high school, I was talking to my hometown vet and he told me, if you’re going to Ohio State you really want to take advantage of the research opportunities,” she said. “It was something I had never done before and it’s been amazing.” \u003C/p>",[55],{"blockName":27,"attrs":58,"innerBlocks":60,"innerHTML":61,"innerContent":62},{"uuid":59},"61f502fe",[],"\u003Cp class=\"bux-paragraph\">Her experience in Warren’s lab actually began before she even came to Ohio State from her hometown of Strongsville, near the Cleveland area.  \u003C/p>",[61],{"blockName":27,"attrs":64,"innerBlocks":66,"innerHTML":67,"innerContent":68},{"uuid":65},"bf990418",[],"\u003Cp class=\"bux-paragraph\">“I found him on LinkedIn my senior semester of high school,” Kulchytsky said. “I was emailing anybody and everybody.” \u003C/p>",[67],{"blockName":70,"attrs":71,"innerBlocks":76,"innerHTML":77,"innerContent":78},"media-text/bux-quote",{"quote":72,"author":73,"source":74,"uuid":75},"“Our lab had so much faith in me. 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Over time, her responsibilities grew, eventually leading to hands-on research studying avian influenza at Wooster and how viruses spread between animals and humans. \u003C/p>",[83],{"blockName":27,"attrs":86,"innerBlocks":88,"innerHTML":89,"innerContent":90},{"uuid":87},"e742f8e1",[],"\u003Cp class=\"bux-paragraph\">Some of her most memorable work, in fact, took place in a high-security biosafety lab, where she helped collect samples from infected animals. \u003C/p>",[89],{"blockName":27,"attrs":92,"innerBlocks":94,"innerHTML":95,"innerContent":96},{"uuid":93},"25133009",[],"\u003Cp class=\"bux-paragraph\">“You put on a hazmat suit, like \u003Cem>Monsters, Inc. \u003C/em>with the gloves and everything, and go into a biosafety level three facility,” she said. “I had to wake up at 3:30 every morning to go in at 4 a.m. and take samples from cows to make sure they’re doing o.k. \u003C/p>",[95],{"blockName":27,"attrs":98,"innerBlocks":100,"innerHTML":101,"innerContent":102},{"uuid":99},"9d526cc5",[],"\u003Cp class=\"bux-paragraph\">“It was actually very cool. 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It was an amazing experience.”\u003C/span>\u003Cspan slot=\"author\">Kalyna Kulchytsky\u003C/span>\u003Cspan slot=\"source\">Animal sciences major\u003C/span>\u003C/bux-quote>\u003C/body>\u003C/html>","\u003Chtml>\u003Chead>\u003C/head>\u003Cbody>\u003Cp class=\"bux-paragraph\">That outreach paid off. Before she even began classes, she secured a volunteer position in Warren’s microbiology lab. 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