Category: Member News

Faculty Fellows Program Supports Development of Publicly Engaged Research or Scholarship Trina Wood October 05, 2021 This Fall, Public Scholarship and Engagement (PSE) will welcome the second cohort of Public Scholarship Faculty Fellows, established to support individuals creating and circulating knowledge for and with publics and communities. This includes, for example, developing research relationships with community partners, identifying […]

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 – 3:59pm 8765512496_7f01910758_c.jpg The new grant will enable Russell and his team to chart how different drugs affect tuberculosis-causing bacteria as well as help different populations of host immune cells fight off the infection. Here, a macrophage engulfs tuberculosis bacteria. Photo: Zeiss Microscopy Dr. David Russell, the William Kaplan Professor of […]

UC Davis Resumes Don Low Fellowships Rob Warren October 05, 2021 Following a two-year absence due to the pandemic, the Don Low/CVMA Practitioner Fellowship will once again be offered at the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH). The advanced training program for veterinarians provides 20 days of in-depth continuing education (CE) in multiple specialty […]

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 – 1:21pm New USDA grants will fund research across Cornell seeking to improve New York state’s economy, food supply and well-being, from helping communities process the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic to exploring the impact of labor shortages on farms. The 52 Cornell projects that have been funded with a total […]

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, an Oslo-based organization that funds development of vaccines for epidemic diseases, is investing $200 million in grants for early-stage development of vaccines that protect broadly against dangerous coronaviruses. The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whose scientists are studying ways to make coronavirus vaccines, is awarding a […]

Inside each of us there exists a place of bountiful bacteria that contribute to our immune health and overall health on a daily basis. While this is not a part of the body’s innate or adaptive immune system, it still contributes to bodily functions each day. It is the gut microbiome.

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.