Category: Member News

NC State College of Veterinary Medicine Dean Paul Lunn has begun a one-year term as president and board chair of the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges.  The AAVMC is a nonprofit membership organization working to protect and improve the health and welfare of animals, people and the environment around the world by advancing academic […]

Researchers from North Carolina State University have created a model that can identify potential hot spots for the pathogen Pythium insidiosum in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, home to the wild Chincoteague ponies. P. insidiosum is an aquatic, fungus-like pathogen that thrives in standing water and is commonly found in tropical or subtropical environments. In horses it causes […]

Sameer Sonkusale and his group’s research on a pill that samples gut microbes is still in the running for best innovations in biomedicine, and needs your vote STAT Madness—a competition among research teams for the best innovations in biomedicine of the year—is heating up, and Tufts engineering professor Sameer Sonkusale’s microbiome sampling pill has now […]

“We don’t know if we have to do it for the long-term, like with influenza, but it’s smart for vaccine companies to be gearing up,” said Kristen Bernard, a professor of virology at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s school of veterinary medicine. The post Scientists Launching Cat-and-Mouse Game With COVID Because ‘We’re Seeing Variants Arise Like Crazy’ appeared […]

The research team travels to the homes of pets to collect samples including swabs from the nose, mouth, rectum, and fur, and a small blood sample. The whole process takes about 10 minutes with the animal in the comforts of their owner and home. The United Kingdom variant (B.1.1.7) of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes […]

Dean Lairmore’s COVID-19 Update – March 15, 2021 Trina Wood March 15, 2021 It’s been a joy to not just see signs of spring, but to see signs of change with this pandemic. I do not know what life is going to look like six months from now, but I do have hope that even […]

Monday, March 15, 2021 – 9:50am Surgery_Bentley_OMorgan_scrubbing_0450.jpg For the top quarter of earners in veterinary medicine, the annual difference between men’s and women’s earnings is approximately $100,000. Photo: Cornell University Veterinary Specialists (CUVS) Women veterinarians make less than their men counterparts, according to new research from the College of Veterinary Medicine that lays the groundwork […]

Four alumni from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) will receive 2021 awards during the Outstanding Alumni & Rising Star Awards virtual ceremony on April 16, 2021. The Outstanding Alumni award recipients are Dr. Robert O. “Bob” Dittmar II ’79 (posthumous), Dr. Harold R. “Ray” Emerson ’65, and Dr. Karen […]

The 2020 Outstanding Alumni and Rising Star award recipients from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) will be honored during a virtual ceremony on April 16, 2021, following the 2020 ceremony’s cancellation. In 2020, the Outstanding Alumni award recipients were Dr. Henry Carwile ’65, Dr. Erin Fleener ’97, Col. Steven […]

Dr. Albert Bourla Albert Bourla, DVM, PhD, will deliver the address at the 2021 University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) Commencement to be held virtually on Monday, May 17, 2021. As its Chairman and CEO, Dr. Bourla leads Pfizer in its purpose: breakthroughs that change patients’ lives, with a focus on driving the […]