Name: Daniel Andrew Hestad
Degrees and institute where received: BS in Animal Science, Berry College, Ga., 2007

Daniel Andrew Hestad chose to come to the University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Center because it is world renowned equine research. With his interests in equine reproduction and his depth of experience in the equine industry, completing a graduate program at Gluck just seemed the perfect match, he said.

"On top of that, I knew after my first meeting with Dr. (Karen) McDowell (MS, PhD) that our interests and work ethics were perfectly aligned, such that she made my experience at the Gluck Center one of the best experiences of my life," he said.

Hestad’s main research focus was to explore how endophyte-infected tall fescue seed ingestion (which causes fescue toxicosis in pregnant mares) would affect nonpregnant mares