Established in 2013 to support a scholarship for UF College of Veterinary Medicine students with an interest in equine theriogenology or stud farm medicine.

Michelle received her doctor of veterinary medicine in 1977 from Michigan State University and became board-certified in theriogenology in 1982.

Michelle was a faculty member in Large Animal Clinical sciences at the University of Florida college of Veterinary Medicine from 1980 to 2002, then adjunct faculty from 2003-2013. She was an associate at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, KY from 2002-2013.

She passed away in 2013.