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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 […]

Bison calves leading the way to biobank creation

The wood and plains bison are majestic creatures weighing 1,200 pounds, but their conservation could depend on single-celled gametes (reproductive cells) that are measured in microns.

OSU/OVMA Virtually Host Annual Summer Seminar

Oklahoma State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA) recently held their annual Summer Seminar, successfully offering the continuing education opportunity virtually June 18-19.

Dr. Pat Conrad Retires as Distinguished Professor

Dr. Pat Conrad Retires as Distinguished Professor Trina Wood July 21, 2021 Trina Wood Dr. Patricia (Pat) Conrad celebrated her retirement from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine on July 1 as a distinguished professor of parasitology after more than 33 years—a fact she still finds surprising. She served as the Associate Dean for Global […]

Veterinary Colleges Praised for Communication, Fundraising

The communication and advancement efforts of two veterinary colleges are being celebrated by the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC). The University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine (UW SVM) and the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) School of Veterinary Medicine have been recognized with the association’s Communications Excellence Award and its Award for […]

NC State Veterinary Medicine Infectious Disease Expert Birkenheuer to Receive Distinguished Chair

Adam Birkenheuer, professor of internal medicine at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, has been selected for the newly endowed Andy Quattlebaum Distinguished Chair in Infectious Disease Research.  Birkenheuer is the second faculty member to receive a distinguished chair at the CVM, joining Natasha Olby, the Dr. Kady M. Gjessing and Rahna M. Davidson […]