Abby Maucieri DeCoste
Laboratory Coordinator
PRONOUNS She/Her
- BS Virginia Tech
- MS University of Vermont
- PhD University of Vermont
Animal & Veterinary Science Department
BIO
Abby is the Lab and Internship Coordinator for the Animal and Veterinary Science department. She joined the department in 2023 coordinating undergraduate teaching laboratory classes, giving her the opportunity to work with both undergraduate students and the department’s graduate teaching assistants. Originally from Pennsylvania, she moved south where she earned a B.S. in Dairy Science and a B.S. in Animal and Poultry Sciences with a minor in International Agriculture and Life Sciences from Virginia Tech. During her time at Virginia Tech, she enjoyed assisting with research in both dairy and beef cattle nutrition and reproduction. She then completed an internship in Dairy Management at Miner Institute where she fell in love with New England.
She returned to the northeast for graduate school where she earned a M.S. in Animal Science from ¶¶Òõ̽̽ and Ph.D. from ¶¶Òõ̽̽ in Animal, Nutrition and Food Sciences, with research focused on bovine reproductive biology. She was thrilled to have the opportunity to stay with the department after graduate school. In her spare time, Abby enjoys working around her family’s dairy and maple farm, tending to her chickens and garden, reading and hiking with her 3 Australian cattle dogs.
Courses
Lab sections for:
ASCI 1000 Introductory To Animal Science
ASCI 2110 Animal Anatomy
ASCI 3040 Advanced Animal Nutrition
Bio
Abby is the Lab and Internship Coordinator for the Animal and Veterinary Science department. She joined the department in 2023 coordinating undergraduate teaching laboratory classes, giving her the opportunity to work with both undergraduate students and the department’s graduate teaching assistants. Originally from Pennsylvania, she moved south where she earned a B.S. in Dairy Science and a B.S. in Animal and Poultry Sciences with a minor in International Agriculture and Life Sciences from Virginia Tech. During her time at Virginia Tech, she enjoyed assisting with research in both dairy and beef cattle nutrition and reproduction. She then completed an internship in Dairy Management at Miner Institute where she fell in love with New England.
She returned to the northeast for graduate school where she earned a M.S. in Animal Science from ¶¶Òõ̽̽ and Ph.D. from ¶¶Òõ̽̽ in Animal, Nutrition and Food Sciences, with research focused on bovine reproductive biology. She was thrilled to have the opportunity to stay with the department after graduate school. In her spare time, Abby enjoys working around her family’s dairy and maple farm, tending to her chickens and garden, reading and hiking with her 3 Australian cattle dogs.
Courses
Lab sections for:
ASCI 1000 Introductory To Animal Science
ASCI 2110 Animal Anatomy
ASCI 3040 Advanced Animal Nutrition