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Grateful Couple Honors 6 at NC State Veterinary Hospital with Coats of Excellence

Emma Rae was a little dog with big, soulful eyes.  Her black-and-white photo looks out onto the waiting room of the NC State Veterinary Hospital oncology service along with other portraits of dogs and cats who have been patients. The display is entitled, “The Petco Foundation Portraits of Courage” Emma Rae’s big eyes only hint […]

Schleining Receives Campus-Wide Teaching Excellence Award

Dr. Jennifer Schleining Dr. Jennifer Schleining, a clinical associate professor at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS), has been awarded a Texas A&M Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for her outstanding skills as an educator.  Established in 2019, the award celebrates the best instructors at Texas A&M […]

First feeding for the future: Colostrum

Every calf represents a large investment. The first few hours of a calf’s life can determine whether that newborn thrives into adulthood. Feeding for a calf’s future health begins with colostrum, which contains the building blocks for long-term productivity.

Purdue professor tackles bovine respiratory disease with over $1 million in grant support

Bovine respiratory disease is the most common and costly disease affecting beef cattle in the world. Mohit Verma, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue University, recently received multiple awards, totaling $1.4 million, from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) to support his groundbreaking work to produce a biosensor-based decision-making tool […]

Innovative Research May Help Solve Crimes by Unearthing Powerful New DNA Evidence

In the hands of a forensic scientist, even the tiniest bit of soil or dust can solve a crime. A project at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) may provide a powerful, new way to analyze forensic evidence, leading to even more accurate links to a suspect or crime scene. The first-of-its-kind research […]

Vet Med Faces of Research: Dr. Dianne McFarlane

Dr. Dianne McFarlane has spent the better part of 20 years researching the impact of aging in animals and age-related disease. A veterinarian, diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and professor and holder of the Ricks-Rapp Professorship in Musculoskeletal Research in the Department of Physiological Sciences at Oklahoma State University’s College of […]

A Tale of Two Tapirs

When a Baird’s tapir at Franklin Park Zoo gave birth to twins, Cummings Veterinary Medical Center stepped up to provide emergency neonatal care Late one evening in October 2020, two very unusual patients arrived at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in Grafton. A Baird’s tapir named Abby at Franklin Park Zoo in Boston had given […]

Boosting beef production through better biology approaches

A multi-agency research team led by University of Saskatchewan (USask) veterinary reproductive biologist Dr. Gregg Adams (DVM, PhD) aims to make rapid strides in improving the productivity, efficiency and sustainability of Canada’s $18-billion beef sector by integrating advances from the field of omics into livestock production.

Dean Lairmore’s COVID-19 Update – April 5, 2021

Dean Lairmore’s COVID-19 Update – April 5, 2021 Trina Wood April 05, 2021 Veterinary Medicine Community: To start this update, I would like to recognize one of our first-year veterinary students, Madison Luker, who is a member of a multi-institutional student team that won a University of Georgia Food, Agribusiness and Entrepreneurial Initiative (FABricate) pitch […]