Chad Page, Ph.D. candidate earned his bachelor’s degree in animal health and veterinarian science from Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2015. He completed his master’s degree in animal and range sciences at Montana State University in 2017. His M.S. research collaborated with 21 sheep ranches across the state to help identify trace mineral deficiencies in weaned ram lambs, with an accompanying feeding trial quantifying the effects that Zn source and dietary concentration has on developing rams. Currently, he is working on his Ph.D. under the direction of Dr. Whit Stewart at the University of Wyoming, where his dissertation work is focused on the effects of increasing dietary Zn during late gestation and early lactation in ewes, and its effects on ewe mammary health, serum metabolites, and progeny performance. Additionaly, Chad's Ph.D. has involved numerous extension presentations, workshops, non-dissertation related research. Originally from Chandler, AZ Chad has had the opportunity to conduct research in MT, ID, and WY. He has become increasingly devoted to the American sheep industry, and in 2018 accepted ASI's Heritage Foundation Memorial Scholarship. He plans on conducting producer focused research that will help to answer the questions and challenges facing the industry, and has accepted a position with Utah State University as an Assistant Professor of Production Animal Agriculture with an emphasis in small ruminants, which he will begin in August 2020.