Category: Member News

Daniela Vassolo presents her project findings July 31, 2025. As summer winds down at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine, 11 rising second-year Gator Vet students in the DVM Class of 2028 capped off the Linda F. Hayward Florida Veterinary Scholars Program, or FVSP, and CVM’s VEM 5991 Individualized Investigation course by presenting their project […]

Jagne is the 2025 recipient of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM)’s Daniel Elmer Salmon Award for Distinguished Alumni Service, the highest alumni honor bestowed by the college.

Tribute originally published in San Francisco Bay Times It’s hard for us to use the past tense when describing our phenomenal sister and sister-in-law Patty Gaffney. But slightly less than two years ago, Patty was diagnosed with aggressive metastatic breast cancer completely out of the blue. And in July, she passed away at age 48–yet […]

Priscilla “Prissy” Abshier Sliva, photo courtesy of Matthew Landry Priscilla “Prissy” Abshier Sliva knows that a love for animals can be a force for good. After losing her son — who was a devoted dog lover and lifelong Texas A&M fan — she adopted his mission of “giving back to make a difference.” “My son […]

Researchers plan to study how poor air quality impacts canine health. (Photo by Kellen Bakovich) Researchers at Colorado State University are launching a project to examine the long-term impacts of poor air quality — including wildfire smoke — on golden retrievers nationwide. The study could also reveal new insights into an area of public health […]

Your summer reading list isn’t complete without one of these recent books written by members of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) community.

Rob and MaryEllen Kimbrough Houstonians Rob and MaryEllen Kimbrough are dedicating a comfort room in Texas A&M University’s Linda & Dennis Clark ’68 Small Animal Teaching Hospital in honor of their longtime veterinarian, Dr. Sam Miller ’91, and the compassionate care he showed to the couple’s beloved Labrador retrievers throughout their lives. The Sam G. Miller, […]

With summer comes mosquitos, and with mosquitos can come heartworms. Even one or two of these dangerous parasites can have serious consequences for pets, but the threat becomes even greater when there are enough to create a blockage inside the heart and cause a life-threatening condition called caval syndrome. Caval syndrome is the final stage […]

Drs. Jamie Burkitt (left) and Amandine Lejeune (right) orient new house officers at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.

Adult crayfish are about 10 centimetres in size, but despite their tiny stature, these freshwater crustaceans can cause big changes in the environment that affect other animals.