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Dr. Sam Jones Named Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies

After nearly two decades at the helm of critical trainee programs at the NC State College Veterinary Medicine including the comparative biomedical sciences graduate program, the combined DVM/Ph.D. program and the Veterinary Scholars Program, Herbert Benjamin Distinguished Professor Sam Jones has been appointed as the college’s inaugural assistant dean for graduate studies. In the new position, […]

“Current Challenges and Solutions for the Rural Veterinary Workforce”

Dr. Jody Kull, veterinarian and assistant teaching professor in the Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences major, was a featured author in the Summer 2024 Edition of Keystone Veterinarian. Her article titled "Current Challenges and Solutions for the Rural Veterinary Workforce" discussed the alarming decline in rural veterinary practitioners and highlighted a multi-pronged call to action.

Which Patients Are More Likely to Contract Bacterial Infections in Hospitals? NC State Researchers Use Machine Learning to Find Out

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious disease researchers have increasingly sought to understand the role racial and sociodemographic factors play in disease spread to help identify who might be more vulnerable to infection. A new study led by the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used machine […]

Cell-Free DNA, ‘Spider-Man’ Neutrophils, and Sepsis in Foals

It’s hard to be a horse. It’s especially hard to be a newborn foal, dropped into a world of microbes and bacteria with your sole initial defense against devastating infections being the antibodies you get from your mother’s milk, or colostrum. Researchers at North Carolina State University wanted to learn whether a biomarker that correlates […]

Untangling The Web: How To Handle Spider Bites In Pets

While Spider-Man may have developed superhuman abilities from a spider bite, our pets are not likely to start slinging webs or crawling up the walls if bitten by an arachnid.  Spiders tend to be active in late summer and early fall, leading to more unwanted encounters for our curious pets.  Dr. Lance Wheeler, a clinical […]

House Officer Highlight: Veterinary Resident Today, Professor Tomorrow

Some veterinary trainees sprint through their years of veterinary school, eager to clear the classroom and leave didactic learning behind. Dr. Cody Atkinson is not one of those people. After completing a small animal internal medicine internship at NC State last summer, Atkinson chose to stay at the College of Veterinary Medicine for at least five […]

Testing confirms that Penn State dairy herd is free of avian influenza

After three weeks of testing as required under a voluntary state monitoring program for bird flu in dairy cattle, animal health experts in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences announced that the University’s dairy herd has been certified as free of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI.