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Kevin Lahmers, leader in exotic tick disease study, wins Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence , articleWhen it comes to receiving the 2022 Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence, Kevin Lahmers credits just about everyone around him more than himself. “I really appreciate it,” said Lahmers, clinical associate professor of anatomic pathology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine “It's recognition that we are doing things that are beneficial to the veterinary community, for livestock producers in the region and the state, and that is very gratifying.
Date: Dec 20, 2022 -
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Audrey Ruple named Dorothy A. and Richard G. Metcalf Professor of Veterinary Medical Informatics , articleAudrey Ruple, associate professor of quantitative epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Sciences in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, has been named the Dorothy A. and Richard G. Metcalf Professor of Veterinary Medical Informatics by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
Date: Dec 15, 2022 -
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Veterinary college 2023 'Tracks' calendars ready for delivery, available for a donation , articleA different kind of “Tracks” will be showing up in veterinary college supporters’ mailboxes this holiday season. Instead of offering a winter edition of its biannual “Tracks” magazine, the Office of Advancement at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine has developed a 2023 calendar containing photographs and short vignettes illustrating college programs, animal care, and donor support.
Date: Dec 14, 2022 -
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Third-year DVM student from Mississippi named Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine Chili Cook-Off Champion , articleIn a Virginia-Maryland chili battle, Mississippi took home the gold. Mercedes Smith, DVM Class of 2024, earned the esteemed chili champion title at this year’s College of Veterinary Medicine CVC (Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign) Chili Cook-Off. Her “Mississippi Hillbilly Chili” is the result of multiple different recipes (with lots of taste-testing) she picked up from back home in Madison, Mississippi, coming together in one delightful dish.
Date: Dec 09, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech researchers win $3.3 million in Department of Defense grants to study deadly virus , articleResearchers led by professor of virology Kylene Kehn-Hall at Virginia Tech’s Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine received a total of $3.3 million from the Department of Defense to study mouse models of how Eastern equine encephalitis virus changes the brain.
Date: Dec 08, 2022 -
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Boehringer Ingelheim donates vaccines, medications for veterinary college shelter medicine program , articlePharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health is donating a replenishing supply of vaccines and medications for use at two regional animal shelters by Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine students assisting staff during clerkships.
Date: Nov 30, 2022 -
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Research program ‘exceeds expectations’ in first two years of Animal Cancer Care and Research Center at Roanoke , articleThe Animal Cancer Care and Research Center (ACCRC) recently celebrated two years since its opening in Roanoke beside Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute (FBRI) in the Riverside Center for Research and Technology.
Date: Nov 21, 2022 -
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Llamas back on farm doing well after emergency C-section at Veterinary Teaching Hospital , articleA pregnant llama with a twisted uterus. Even with the best of care, there are a lot of things that can go wrong when an emergency Caesarean section is needed in that situation.
Date: Nov 16, 2022 -
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Timothy Bolton awarded Zoetis Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Award , articleThe Zoetis award is a nationally recognized honor for a faculty member at each veterinary school in the United States. This award is given to a faculty member who has demonstrated leadership and character; teaching ability as demonstrated by the caliber of instruction and responsiveness to the needs of students. Faculty members are nominated by their students.
Date: Nov 16, 2022 -
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Veterinary instructors from Kenya, Uganda learn from — and teach — their peers at Virginia Tech , articleVeterinary instructors from the two African nations visited the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine (VMCVM) for a week in October to learn about methods and approaches they can apply to teaching veterinary students in their universities.
Date: Nov 07, 2022 -
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Production Management Medicine Faculty Members Earn Board Certification , articleOver the past year, two members of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine’s Production Management Medicine team became board certified by the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners, respectively. Recent diplomates Sierra Guynn and Hollie Schramm, both clinical assistant professors, put in countless hours of study and hard work to achieve these accomplishments.
Date: Nov 03, 2022 -
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Veterinary college's dean, Dan Givens, receives honor from Auburn University , articleDan Givens, dean of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine (VMCVM), was recently honored with a prestigious award from his alma mater and the university for which he previously served on faculty and as an administrator.
Date: Nov 02, 2022 -
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Connect 2022 brings alumni, students together for weekend of networking and fun , articleMore than 600 registered attendees came to the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Connect 2022, Oct. 20-22. Apparently the largest veterinarian gathering in the state of Virginia this year.
Date: Oct 27, 2022 -
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New cows at veterinary college enhance learning , articleThe cows have come home. The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine recently welcomed several new residents—residents of the bovine variety. The college is now home to 21 dairy cows who will aid in the education of veterinary students.
Date: Oct 26, 2022 -
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New animal behavior course helps students discern what dogs tell us without words , articleBuechner-Maxwell, a professor and specialist in large animal internal medicine at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and also certified in shelter medicine, and Erica Feuerbacher, associate professor of animal science and welfare in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), together coordinate the new Companion Animal Behavior and Socialization course.
Date: Oct 26, 2022 -
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Veterinary Teaching Hospital names 2022 Staff Members of the Year , articleThe Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine recently named its Staff Members of the Year. Those honored include Amanda Conrad, cardiology technician in the small animal clinic; Missy Stillinger, anesthesia technician in diagnostic imaging and support services; Jenny Robinson, fiscal technician in the business office; and Katie Reuss, lead veterinary technician in the large animal clinic.
Date: Oct 21, 2022 -
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Center for One Health Research receives nearly $2 million from NIH to find new ways to combat gonorrhea , articleSeleem, also the Tyler J. and Frances F. Young Endowed Chair in Bacteriology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, and Dan Flaherty, associate professor of medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Purdue University, are the principal faculty for a $3 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health for ongoing studies on how to repurpose existing drugs to fight Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Date: Oct 21, 2022 -
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Academic Affairs promotes Jacquelyn Pelzer to new strategic role at the college and promotes longtime student support specialist Shelby Stegall , articleShelby Stegall and Jacquelyn Pelzer have been promoted to new leadership positions within the Office of Academic Affairs at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.
Date: Oct 13, 2022 -
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Veterinary college students help provide safe, affordable spay/neuter services to help end pet overpopulation in Southwest Virginia , articleThere is an intense focus, but also cheerfulness, amid the whir and hum in the operating room at the back of Mountain View Humane Spay/Neuter Clinic in Christiansburg, Virginia. Dogs and cats have been brought by clients, by shelters, and by the regional Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) for low-cost spay and neuter surgeries, performed by Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine students under the supervision of faculty.
Date: Oct 12, 2022 -
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William “Bill” Pierson, professor emeritus at the veterinary college honored with national avian disease award , articleBill Pierson was recently honored with a national award for a career devoted to mentorship, avian disease research and biosecurity. Pierson was named the 2022 recipient of the Bruce W. Calnek Applied Poultry Research Achievement Award, given by the American Association of Avian Pathologists.
Date: Oct 12, 2022 -
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Resident Megan Lowman, DVM to present a retrospective study on next generation sequencing (NGS) in equine sinusitisOn Saturday, October 15, Equine Medical Center surgery resident, Megan Lowman, DVM will present a retrospective study on next generation sequencing (NGS) in equine sinusitis at the American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) Surgery Summit in Portland, Oregon.
Date: Oct 12, 2022 -
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Sophie Boorman, BVetMed, MS, joins the faculty team as a clinical assistant professor of equine surgerySophie Boorman, BVetMed, MS, joined the Equine Medical Center faculty team on October 10, as a clinical assistant professor of equine surgery.
Date: Oct 10, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech team receives $2 million grant to use bubbles to destroy deadly tumors , articlePancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of the major cancers, and only 10 percent of patients live longer than five years after diagnosis. Treatment options can be limited, but an interdisciplinary team led by Irving Coy Allen, associate professor of inflammatory diseases at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, might change that. The team recently received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore the use of histotripsy as a therapeutic option for pancreatic cancer.
Date: Oct 06, 2022 -
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The “Canine Instructors” Class of ‘22 , articleJust as the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine welcomed its Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) class of 2026 this Fall, it also welcomed its new participants in the Animal Care for Education (ACE) program. From August to mid-October, the veterinary college fosters dogs that come from local shelters.
Date: Oct 06, 2022 -
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M. Norris Adams rejoins the faculty team as a clinical associate professor of equine surgeryM. Norris (Norrie) Adams, DVM, Diplomate ACVS, Diplomate ACVSMR, CERP, rejoined the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center on Monday, October 3, as a clinical associate professor of equine surgery.
Date: Oct 01, 2022 -
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Veterinary College gains new communications skills and depth of experience with new hires , articleThe Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine has made two strategic hires to enhance its capabilities as it prepares to support a new series of fundraising campaigns and increase its digital communications and marketing capability.
Date: Sep 29, 2022 -
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Julia M. Gohlke wins NASA grant to study health damages of extreme weather events , articleJulia M. Gohlke, associate professor of environmental health in the department of population sciences at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She will work alongside co-PIs Ryan Calder, assistant professor of environmental health and policy at the college; Samarth Swarup of the University of Virginia; and Benjamin Zaitchik of Johns Hopkins University.
Date: Sep 21, 2022 -
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Julie Rosenberger selected for national business officer leadership program , articleJulie Rosenberger, director of budget and finance at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine’s Office of the Dean, has been selected for the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) at the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).
Date: Sep 08, 2022 -
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Researchers to examine Virginia's food system and antimicrobial resistance in sheep and goat populations, a possible surveillance blind spot , articleThe National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)/USDA has granted $150,000 for a three-year study of antimicrobial resistance in small ruminant agrosystems. Patrick Pithua, associate professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences at Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and Eunice Ndegwa, assistant professor of Agriculture Research at Virginia State University, will lead the research.
Date: Sep 08, 2022 -
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World Suicide Prevention Day 2022: "Creating hope Through Action" , articleAn estimated 703,000 people a year take their life around the world. For every suicide, there are likely 20 other people making a suicide attempt, and many more have serious thoughts of suicide. Veterinary professionals are making strides to increase well-being education and engage in suicide prevention training.
Date: Sep 08, 2022 -
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Payton Lawrence 2022 recipient of the NOVA Jenn Fay Memorial Veterinary Technology Student of the Year AwardPayton Lawrence is the 2022 recipient of the NOVA Jenn Fay Memorial Veterinary Technology Student of the Year Award. This award recognizes a student that shows outstanding dedication to the profession of Veterinary Technology.
Date: Sep 07, 2022 -
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Veterinary alumna returns as faculty to work with students, shelter dogs , articleErin Phoenix (B.S ‘11, DVM ’17) recently joined the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine as a veterinary instructor with the Animal Care for Education team in the small animal clinical sciences department.
Date: Aug 29, 2022 -
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Carla Phillips Savage joins Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine faculty , articleCarla Phillips Savage recently joined the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine as an associate professor of practice in aquatic animal medicine. Savage works within the Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine (CPCVM), which prepares veterinary students to enter the public and corporate sectors of veterinary medicine and provides resources to established veterinarians looking for a career change.
Date: Aug 29, 2022 -
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Class of 2026 receives support—and a surprise—during White Coat Ceremony , articleLast Friday, 127 aspiring veterinarians, wearing their newly bestowed white coats, rose from their seats at the Moss Arts Center and took the veterinary student's oath. With that, the students were officially welcomed into the profession as the Class of 2026, the 43rd class of veterinarians to be educated at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.
Date: Aug 26, 2022 -
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Veterinary student is commissioned into the U.S. Public Health Service and wins elite internship in a nationwide competition , articleWilliam Boyd, a fourth-year public and corporate Doctor of Veterinary Medicine student also enrolled in the Masters of Public Health Program, was recently commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (USPHS). He will join an elite team of more than 6,000 public health professionals.
Date: Aug 26, 2022 -
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The end of over-the-counter veterinary antibiotics , articleOver-the-counter veterinary antibiotics will require a prescription from a veterinarian in order to purchase them starting on June 11, 2023.
Date: Aug 18, 2022 -
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Meet the New Alumni Board of Directors President, Jeff Alexander , articleEarlier this year, the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine’s Alumni Board of Directors elected its next president, Jeff Alexander.
Date: Aug 10, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech veterinary college gets funding for research into parasite found in cats , articleFound in cats, Toxoplasma gondii is a human pathogen with serious health ramifications, causing life-threatening illnesses for people with immunodeficienies, miscarriages in pregnant women, and blindness in newborn children.
Date: Aug 08, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech researcher to test vaccine for norovirus , articleLijuan Yuan, professor of virology and immunology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, will evaluate a potential live oral vaccine for norovirus, the No. 1 cause of foodborne illness.
Date: Jul 28, 2022 -
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Striving for a better life for equine veterinarians , articleMaria and David Williams fund a scholarship for equine veterinary students with a commitment of half a million dollars after an exceptional experience at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital with their horse, Whimsy.
Date: Jul 08, 2022 -
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Susan West Marmagas Public Health Scholarship , articleThanks to a community crowdfunding campaign and a generous commitment from Roger and Deborah West, a new endowed scholarship in memory of Susan West Marmagas has been established benefitting public health students from Appalachia.
Date: Jul 08, 2022 -
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2022 Distinguished Alumni Awards , articleThe college announced the 2022 Distinguished Alumni Awards. The Lifetime Achievement Alumni Award, the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award and an additional award, the Outstanding Faculty Alumni Award, given to a faculty member for their contributions to student and alumni education and mentorship.
Date: Jun 28, 2022 -
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The Adventure of the Speckled BandanaThe legendary feline detective Furlock Holmes, unravels a veterinary mystery
Date: Jun 21, 2022 -
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New lab kick-starts clinical research collaboration at veterinary college , articleCollaboration is key to solving complex problems, and the new Collaborative Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine is helping a wide array of veterinary clinical researchers work together to tackle challenges
Date: Jun 15, 2022 -
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Biomedical and veterinary sciences Ph.D. candidate receives National Institutes of Health grant , articleJatia Mills said that the majority of the grant will go toward her research on investigating the neuroinflammatory response that occurs because of traumatic brain injury.
Date: Jun 02, 2022 -
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Class of 2022: Celebrating the first students to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Public Health , articleOn May 11, the first cohort of undergraduates crossed the stage at Lane Stadium to receive their Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH). This brand-new undergraduate program graduated nearly 70 students last week.
Date: May 11, 2022 -
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Class of 2022: Kaitlin Phelon receives the Phi Kappa Phi Medallion , articleKaitlin Phelon is the Phi Kappa Phi Medallion undergraduate recipient for the inaugural Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) class.
Date: May 11, 2022 -
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World Veterinary Day: 'Strengthening veterinary resilience' , articleCreated by the World Veterinary Association in 2000, World Veterinary Day celebrates the veterinary profession and recognizes veterinarians and their extraordinary contributions. "Strengthening veterinary resilience" is the theme of this year's celebration on April 30.
Date: Apr 28, 2022
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