Category: Member News

Many horses can cause trauma on themselves. Usually, those are wounds or cuts on the legs — but sometimes, they’re on the horse’s head.

Thanks to recent staff additions, the NC State Veterinary Hospital now offers a full array of extracorporeal services, including hemodialysis and therapeutic plasma exchange, lifesaving procedures that utilize advanced technologies to remove harmful substances from the body.  Extracorporeal therapies eliminate life-threatening toxins, such as in cases of drug overdoses, by filtering the blood. All extracorporeal […]

Faculty spend a semester having the ‘uncomfortable’ conversations, with the goal of more inclusive classrooms Part of an occasional Tufts Now series on how faculty are integrating issues of racial and social justice into the curricula, an integral part of a university-wide strategy to dismantle systemic racism. Read more about Teaching Toward Equity on Tufts Now.

Bees, bacteria and bison were all part of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM)’s recent Undergraduate Research Poster Day competition.

Monday, October 4, 2021 – 1:14pm Dr. Gary Koretzky ’78, vice provost for academic integration at Cornell, director of the Cornell Center for Immunology, professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and adjunct professor of immunology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, was elected president of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) for 2021-2022. […]

Oklahoma State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and its Institute for Translational and Emerging Research for Advanced Comparative Therapy (INTERACT) are excited to welcome Nobel Laureate Dr. Bruce Beutler on Oct. 12, 2021.

A mental health program for farmers, created by experts in the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph, has received $385,000 from the Ontario government. The province recently announced that it is investing in the In the Know initiative. The program helps farmers better identify, understand and cope with the many mental health challenges […]

The majority of UW students and employees seem to be compliant and onboard with the university’s policy. After over a year of being online, most students are eager to return to in-person activities associate dean for research and graduate education Marulasiddappa Suresh said. The post What the Federal Vaccine Requirement Means for UW Students, Employees […]

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Parisa Kalantari, Assistant Professor of Immunology, to the department. We are very excited to be welcoming back one of our own! From Dr. Kalentari: I am very excited to join the Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences faculty. Penn State has always felt like home to me and coming back as […]

Friday, October 1, 2021 – 8:53am The Veterinary One Health Association (VOHA) at Cornell hosted its annual symposium this weekend, Sept. 24 and 25. The two-day virtual event featured guest speakers, special lectures and a virtual poster session, all covering One Health issues — the concept that the health of our planet, animals and humans […]