Occupational therapy students and faculty in UND’s satellite program at Casper, WY, gathered for a two-day workshop in April to share research studies and emerging opportunities in their field. Organized by the UND Casper Student Occupational Therapy Association, highlights included presentations ranging from animal-assisted therapy to helping patients who’ve experienced brain injury. Well-attended by alumni and students, the event offered provocative workshops covering a range of topics.  Sonia Zimmerman, PhD (MA ’89), OTR, assistant professor of OT at UND, Grand Forks, and Sarah Nielsen (BSOT ’00), adjunct OT faculty member, Minot, conducted a three-hour workshop, “Psychosocial Aspects of School-age Children and OT’s Role.”  The growing field of “AgrAbility” was the focus of a presentation by Carla Wilhite, MNM, OTR/L, assistant professor, and Sarah (Freeburn) Perry (MOT ’03), OTR/L, who described the need and effectiveness of the role of occupational therapy in helping injured farmers and ranchers to not only return to the land and continue to farm and ranch but, more importantly, to perform the work that is their calling and their way of life, says Diane Walters, director of development for the UND medical school, who attended the event along with Janet Jedlicka, PhD, OTR/L, chair and associate professor of the Department of Occupational Therapy at the UND medical school.