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Common Household Noises May Be Stressing Your Dog Subtitle Study Shows People Likely Underestimate Their Dog’s Anxiety Trina Wood November 10, 2021 Amy Quinton Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found that people may not recognize that their dog is stressed when exposed to common household noises. While it’s well established that sudden […]

Nearly a year and a half after they officially became veterinarians, the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine class of 2020 got the moment they deserve: an in-person, traditional oath and hooding graduation ceremony. All members of the class of 2020 were invited to the oath and hooding ceremony held Nov. 6 at the Raleigh […]

Dr. Caitlyn Best is about to add a few more letters to her already lengthy set of professional credentials, becoming the first person to graduate from Canada’s only master’s program in veterinary field epidemiology.

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 – 11:49am FrontOfCollege-2.jpg In recognition of their leadership and impact in the field of large animal surgery, two members of the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine community have been honored by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons. Photo: CVM In recognition of their leadership and impact in the field of large […]

Crude Awakenings Subtitle An Oil Spill, a Tiny Bird and a Big Care Network Trina Wood November 08, 2021 Kat Kerlin An oily plover is examined before being washed. (OWCN/UC Davis) It’s early October in Southern California, and Danene Birtell is psyching herself up to wash an oiled snowy plover.  “I can do this. I’ve […]

Doctors at Oklahoma State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine had to get creative in helping a recent patient breathe following surgery to address an obstruction of his upper airway.

Researchers aim to determine if rapamycin can be used to treat preclinical dilated cardiomyopathy, the second most-common acquired cardiac disease in dogs. Dr. Sonya Gordon and Dr. Elizabeth Malcolm Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is the second most-common acquired cardiac disease in dogs. In its early stage, called the preclinical stage, dogs are apparently healthy to their […]

Monday, November 8, 2021 – 11:16am Kahrs was born and raised in Lynbrook, New York. Photo: Bob Kahrs Robert Kahrs ’52, D.V.M. ’54, M.S. ’63, Ph.D. ’65 — college alumnus, associate dean, bovine vaccine scholar and leader across veterinary institutions — died Oct. 28 in Colfax, North Carolina. He was 91. “Dr. Kahrs will be […]

Suresh Kuchipudi, clinical professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been named Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.