{"id":3324,"date":"2021-02-02T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/vetpac-new\/?page_id=3324"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:33:49","slug":"clay-tuttle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/vetpac\/clay-tuttle\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay Tuttle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Clay Tuttle and I am a member of the NCSU CVM class of 2024 here in Raleigh. I am originally from Greensboro, N.C. but came to Raleigh for school in 2014. I graduated&nbsp;in Fall of 2018 with a B.S. in Zoology and a B.S. in Environmental Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope to go into wildlife medicine and conservation related work in Central America focusing on issues like human-wildlife conflict, wildlife trafficking, and endangered species conservation. I was first exposed to these concepts while studying abroad in Tanzania learning about field\u00a0research techniques\u00a0and trying to understand the relationship between humans and their environment. Later these concepts re-emerged during an internship in Belize focusing on wildlife medicine and conservation. During the school year, however, I worked at a small animal general practice to build a basic foundation of veterinary medicine. Upon graduating undergrad I lived and worked in Belize as a veterinary assistant primarily for neotropical wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vet experience\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wildlife emergency and rehabilitation- Belize<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Small animal general practice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VetPac Museum Medicine Internship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Equine mobile practice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turtle Rescue Team volunteer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rural small animal spay\/neuter clinics- Costa Rica<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Animal experience\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Turtle Rescue Team rehabilitator volunteer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lab animal\/aquatic invertebrate husbandry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NCSU Dairy Education Unit volunteer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research experience\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Comparative Anatomy and Functional Morphology Lab with Dr. Hartstone-Rose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Honors\/awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wild Chelonian Rehabilitation Certificate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cum Laude<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>College of Natural Resources Enrichment Fund Scholarship recipient<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dean&#8217;s List<br>Invited to join Phi Sigma Theta and SCLA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rosalind Brooks Latin Language Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hazel West Eskridge Best All Around Student Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eagle Scout Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Extracurriculars\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Epsilon Eta Environmental Honor Fraternity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teaching assistant: Human\/animal interactions &amp; Parasitology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Merit Badge College NCSU<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>School for Field Studies- Tanzania<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dead Language Society<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>National Honor Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Clay Tuttle and I am a member of the NCSU CVM class of 2024 here in Raleigh. I am originally from Greensboro, N.C. but came to Raleigh&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2503,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"10\/10\/2025","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3324","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/vetpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/vetpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/vetpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/vetpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/vetpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/vetpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7742,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/vetpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3324\/revisions\/7742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/vetpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}