BLACKSBURG, Va., March 9 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Lauren Maghakdidn'tbring her laptop. Shedidn'teven pack it.
For a fourth-year student at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine who is normally glued to her email, that alone was a first. But thiswasn'ta typicalexternship.
Maghak spent a week volunteering as the only student veterinarian at the 41st John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon - a 300-mile race up Minnesota's North Shore, the longest sled dog race in thecontiguous48 states, and a qualifying event for Alaska's Iditarod.
At the race, Ryan Anderson of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, claimed his record fifth marathon title.
Maghak was there for all of it - the ...