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Meet the NC State Veterinary Medicine Class of 2025

After carefully reviewing 1,661 applications, the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine is pleased to welcome the newest class of 100 future clinicians and scientists. The class of 2025 will be an important part of the CVM’s effort to restore more normal operations after a trying year of disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic. After orientation, […]

Pair Of Camels Join Texas A&M Winnie Carter Wildlife Center

Casper, Crimson, and Dr. Alice Blue-McLendon Every day is hump day at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVMBS) Winnie Carter Wildlife Center (WCWC) now that camels Crimson and Casper have joined the community of exotic animals that call the center home. Three-year-old Crimson and 2-year-old Casper, both dromedary (one-humped) camels, […]

Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists welcomes Dr. Tate Morris to faculty

Monday, July 26, 2021 – 9:02am Morris photo provided.jpeg Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists (CRES) will welcome Tate Morris, D.V.M. ’16, to its faculty July 26. “It is a pleasure to have a veterinarian as skilled as Dr. Morris join our team of clinicians,” said Dr. John Pigott, medical director and associate clinical professor. “I look […]

COVID and “Gain of Function” Research: Should We Create Monsters To Prevent Them?

The Dutch virologist, based at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, caused a firestorm of controversy about a decade ago, when he and Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that they had successfully mutated H5N1, a strain of bird flu, to pass through the air between ferrets, in two separate experiments. Ferrets are considered […]

Madison Schools Will Continue To Require Masks Indoors

“There is a real temptation to feel, because we’ve improved, the pandemic is over and everyone is safe,” UW-Madison Pathobiological Sciences professor Dr. Thomas Friedrich said in a statement. “This notion is not true. What we can’t afford is to backslide now.  We need to consider all the important things we are currently able to […]

A Little Support Can Go A Long Way: Mobility Care And Rehabilitation

Aspen uses the water treadmill in the Texas A&M Small Animal Teaching Hospital’s Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation service. Veterinarians are making strides in learning more and more about man’s best friend, thanks to recent discoveries in the field of canine health, but a lot of questions still exist when it comes to mobility issues in […]

UW-Madison Joins International Initiative To Prevent Future Pandemics

Research at UW-Madison has been crucial to the COVID-19 response in Wisconsin, and the university is now getting some new help to keep the research going — to try to get ahead of whatever the next threat may be. Virology professor Thomas Friedrich is one of the researchers involved currently with coronavirus variant sequencing. “Is […]

Radical roadmap: Russell lab develops novel technique to analyze the host-pathogen dynamic

Thursday, July 22, 2021 – 10:00am image 2.jpg A lung macrophage infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. Photo: Russell Lab Tuberculosis continues to be a deadly threat across the globe, and our knowledge regarding what controls disease progression is limited. Now, in a paper published July 22 in the Journal of […]

OVC Researcher Focused On Building Resilience To Tackle Big Health Challenges

Epidemiologists can’t stop disasters like the next pandemic or antimicrobial resistance. Instead, says a University of Guelph One Health researcher, they need to focus on the societal aspects of these issues. Dr. Jane Parmley, a professor in Ontario Veterinary College’s Department of Population Medicine, is working to discover how to make vulnerable populations – whether […]