Category: Member News

Animal health experts in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have announced that — out of an abundance of caution — they will test the University’s dairy herd for highly pathogenic avian influenza, under a voluntary state testing program.

Supertoxic rodenticides are building up inside unintended targets, including birds, mammals, and insects. Scientists want to understand the damage—and limit it.

Troy Sutton, assistant professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State, has been awarded a Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Virology.

H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was first detected in dairy cattle in Texas on March 25 and has since spread to several additional states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed multiple human infections in which the individuals were exposed to infected dairy cattle. Penn State News spoke with Ruth Nissly, assistant research […]

Two Members of Exotics Service Win Avian Awards Rob Warren July 19, 2024 Kristina Palmer, RVT, VTS (Clinical Practice-Exotics), cares for an Amazon parrot in the UC Davis veterinary hospital’s Companion Exotic Animal Medicine and Surgery Service. Michelle Hawkins, VMD, DABVP (Avian Practice) Two members of the UC Davis veterinary hospital’s Companion Exotic Animal Medicine […]

While rain followed by sunshine produces the eye-catching sight of a rainbow, it can also mark the need for livestock owners to confront the insects and parasites that thrive in the summer season.  To help owners protect their livestock, Dr. Isabelle Louge, a clinical assistant professor at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & […]

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Quackenbush (left) is presented the Oltjenbruns Award by Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Sue James (right) at the annual Provost Awards Luncheon. (John Eisele/CSU Photography) This spring, Sandra Quackenbush, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology (MIP), was recognized as an educational and scientific leader with the 2024 Kevin Ann Oltjenbruns Award […]

Veterinary medicine can be rich with career paths and opportunities. Barry Lissman ’74, D.V.M. ’77, may be one of the best examples of that fact. 

At every step of his journey to success, Tony Phan ‘22 has demonstrated the Aggie core value of Selfless Service. Tony Phan Choosing to become a doctor is a noble pursuit, but it’s no easy journey. It takes years of study and practice, as well as a bit of luck — each year, less than […]