Veterinary students thrive at SAVMA Symposium in Tennessee
AVMA News
APRIL 9, 2024
The 2024 Student AVMA Symposium, co-hosted by Lincoln Memorial University and the University of Tennessee, took place March 14-17 at the Knoxville Convention Center.
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AVMA collaborates with veterinary libraries to digitize journal articles
AVMA News
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
The effort comes thanks to a task force that has combined expertise from AVMA staff members and librarians from Cornell University, Texas Tech University, the University of California, Davis, and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Veterinary community grants wish for animal-loving girl with cancer
AVMA News
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
To recognize her bravery, National Veterinary Associates, Colorado State University, and the AVMA created a special day with many magical moments for the young animal lover. Mary Stegmueller is a 7-year-old in Colorado who was diagnosed three years ago with a rare form of cancer that targets the brain stem.
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Puerto Rican veterinary school will open this fall
AVMA News
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Méndez University-Gurabo (UAGM-Gurabo) School of Veterinary Medicine received a letter of reasonable assurance from the AVMA Council on Education after it met on December 15, 2023.
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New listings in AVMA Veterinary Clinical Trials Registry – March 2024
AVMA News
MARCH 12, 2024
More than a dozen veterinary clinical studies have been added to the AVMA Veterinary Clinical Trials Registry, formerly the AVMA Animal Health Studies Database, including a canine osteosarcoma clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University
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Birding Zamorano University in Honduras
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Zamorano University may be regarded as one of the crown jewels of Latin American higher education, particularly in the areas of agriculture, environmental management, and food science, but this idyllic campus excels for more reasons than simply academics. The post Birding Zamorano University in Honduras appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
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NC State, Purdue professors to join National Academy of Inventors
AVMA News
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Kenneth Adler, PhD, professor of cell biology at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, and Masanobu Yamamoto, adjunct professor in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, will be inducted as fellows of the National Academy of (..)
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Cornell wildlife health center receives $35M endowment
AVMA News
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
In February, Cornell University announced a $35 million gift to endow and name the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health at the university’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The gift to endow and name the Cornell K.
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A proliferation of newly proposed veterinary colleges
AVMA News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Some universities have already secured site visits from the while others are just in the discussion stage. Nearly a dozen newly proposed veterinary colleges have been announced in the past two years, which represents a sizeable potential increase to the existing 33 U.S. veterinary colleges.
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Pascoe honored for leadership, mentorship, surgical skills
AVMA News
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Pascoe was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Alumni Excellence Award this year by the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia for his “unwavering commitment to advancing veterinary education, the veterinary profession globally, and academic leadership.”
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Students, veterinarians address animal welfare scenarios during annual contest
AVMA News
DECEMBER 8, 2023
The 23rd annual AVMA Animal Welfare Assessment Contest, or AWJAC, took place November 17-19 at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Participants completed in-person assessments of the welfare of animals in a variety of scenarios, including laboratory rats, farmed bison, cage-free laying hens, and tortoises in a zoo.
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Catalyzing the field of canine comparative oncology, benefiting researchers far and wide
AVMA News
MARCH 20, 2023
Knapp at Purdue University and Dr. Steven Dow at Colorado State University, two of many veterinarians working in the field. The Comparative Oncology Program at the National Institutes of Health has transformed canine comparative oncology since the program’s founding 20 years ago, according to Dr. Deborah W.
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“The Center of the Universe”: Fremont Brewing: Universale Pale Ale
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
The residents there have been calling their part of town “The Center of the Universe” since the 1970s, and that claim was the inspiration for this pale ale by the local Fremont brewery. You can get there from here: the whimsical signpost planted at the Center of the Universe in Fremont, Washington.
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Mark Markel elected first veterinarian president-elect of AO Foundation
AVMA News
JULY 12, 2023
Mark Markel, an equine surgeon and dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, was recently elected president-elect of the AO Foundation, the world’s largest nonprofit orthopedic foundation.
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SAVMA Symposium at Illinois highlighted the best of the Midwest
AVMA News
APRIL 20, 2023
The event was hosted by the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. The 2023 Student AVMA (SAVMA) Symposium had nearly 700 veterinary students in attendance for the event from March 17-19.
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USDA announces $15.8M in funding for disease preparedness, response
AVMA News
APRIL 11, 2023
million to 60 projects led by 38 states, land-grant universities, and industry organizations to enhance the country’s ability to rapidly respond to and control outbreaks of animal disease. Department of Agriculture is awarding $15.8
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Advances in animal genome editing continue apace
AVMA News
JUNE 21, 2023
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently green lit for human consumption five genetically modified pigs at Washington State University. Meanwhile, a team of geneticists have reportedly created the first calf born with immunity to bovine viral diarrhea virus.
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USDA funds antimicrobial resistance dashboard research
AVMA News
AUGUST 2, 2023
million to several universities to develop dashboards to monitor trends in antimicrobial resistance patterns and better understand relationships between antimicrobial use, animal health management practices, and antimicrobial resistance. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has awarded more than $3.2
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Summer Tanager at the University of West Florida
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Three evenings a week, I trek exactly 51 minutes from my house or 97 minutes from my office (depending on the day) to the University of West Florida campus in Pensacola for graduate classes in strategic communications.
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Meritorious Service Award goes to Phillip Nelson
AVMA News
JULY 26, 2023
He stepped down in September 2022 as dean of Western University of Health Sciences (WesternU) College of Veterinary Medicine after 15 years. This year’s AVMA Meritorious Service Award recipient is Dr. Phillip D.
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Texas VMA, veterinary school, veterinary clinic receive AVMA President’s Awards
AVMA News
JULY 27, 2023
This year’s recipients are the Texas VMA (TVMA), Texas A&M University School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and the Meyerland Animal Clinic (MAC) in Houston. Lori Teller, 2022-23 AVMA president, gave three President’s Awards during the President’s Reception July 14 at AVMA Convention 2023 in Denver.
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Back to School with PetMD University
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MAY 3, 2013
When I heard about PetMD University , I was excited to get back to school! PetMD University offers a wide range of courses too, for example in the dog section you can learn about puppy basics, being social with your dog, heart worms, skin care, emergency preparedness and more! For my first course I enrolled in Exercising with your Dog.
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Protest at Cambridge University
Critter News
APRIL 18, 2010
Apparently, they were "disrupting university business" and security guards were called in. Tags: Cambridge University UK animal research protests. This protest against animal research happened last Thursday. This link has a video.
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University of Florida Must Relinguish Primate Records
Critter News
JANUARY 9, 2012
An Alachua County Circuit Court judge has ordered the University of Florida to provide an animal rights activist with records on primates involved in research. This is good news, at least in my opinion. Full article in the Gainesville Sun. Camille Marino of Wildwood, who founded the group Negotiation is Over, received the records last week.
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SAEN Files Complaints Against University of Washington Again
Critter News
MAY 2, 2012
An animal-rights group that watchdogs research facilities across the country has filed a federal complaint against the University of Washington, citing multiple incidents in which animals were injured, escaped from their cages or were found dead. From the normantranscript.com.
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Welsh Report Shows Increased Animal Research at Cardiff University
Critter News
AUGUST 2, 2010
Here's an article about an increase in animal experiments at Cardiff University in Wales. By comparison, Bangor University used 1,464 mice and 664 fish, Aberystwyth used 289 cattle, 153 mice and 102 sheep and Swansea used 1,208 fish. Tags: universities animal experimentation UK animal research wales cardiff university.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 25, 2009
We recently posted about the University of Kansas which, in response to USDA-cited lab violations, is spending about $1 million on lab renovations (although now I'm hearing it's more like $700,000.) Now PETA is saying that the NIH (National Institutes of Health) should take back the grant money it gave the university.
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Critter News
OCTOBER 9, 2010
Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research. Tags: university of florida animal research activism primates. Wonder if that could get activists into trouble under AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.)
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Birdwatching Activity Change During the Corona Crisis
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2020
However, researchers Piotr Tryjanowski of the University of Poznan and Christoph Randler of the University of Tübingen want to know specifically how your birdwatching activity has changed during the coronavirus crisis. Has your birding routine changed since COVID-19 took over the world?
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University of Utah Continues Getting Bad Press
Critter News
FEBRUARY 28, 2010
Investigative journalism by the Salt Lake Tribune, following-up on allegations levelled by PETA against the University of Utah's Comparative Medicine Center and the Cardiovascular Research & Training Institute laboratories revealed the two laboratories had used 190 dogs and cats in 2009, all obtained from shelters.
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Humane Society Cites Abuses at University of Minnesota
Critter News
MARCH 19, 2010
Don't give me that slop about universities being better than corporations. Media-Newswire.com) - The Humane Society of the United States has obtained government reports showing that the University of Minnesota has violated federal standards of care for animals in laboratories. All this stuff makes me sick.
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Breeders Also Supply Universities with Research Animals
Critter News
MAY 26, 2009
According to this article, some are so bad that the University of California and the University of Cincinnati have actually decided to end their relationships with them and stop purchasing animals bred for research use. Tags: universities breeders animal experimentation USDA medical research.
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
The University of Arizona College of Medicine won a $15 million federal stimulus grant to build a facility for research animals in downtown Phoenix. Tags: animal research university of arizona National Institutes of Health arizona. Another Arizona story! They are certainly on the animal research kick. From the Arizona Daily Star.
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PETA Busts University of Utah Research Lab
Critter News
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
A University representative denied any mistreatment: "None of the things she alleges are substantive," said Tom Parks, the U.'s Tags: universities animal research utah undercover investigation PETA. An undercover PETA investigator shot hours of footage of alleged mistreatment of animals. s vice president for research.
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West Virginia University to Build Animal Research Lab
Critter News
MARCH 6, 2010
Why would this West Virginia University project be the recipient of federal stimulus money? Tags: west virginia university animal research Obama tax dollars us. Thanks to your tax dollars, federal stimulus money is being used to build a $14.5 million dollar research lab. It is the largest grant thus far under the stimulus package.
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University of Texas May Receive Surprise USDA Inspection
Critter News
JANUARY 9, 2011
PETA has complained to the USDA that the University of Texas has been severely mistreating its lab animals. There may be a surprise inspection, but I don't really understand how effective a "surprise" inspection is when the facility is notified in advance!!
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Birds of Costa Rica by Dyer and N. G. Howell
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Serge told me: The same publisher, Princeton University Press, is working on the new Costa Rica guide. While it may be the first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Central America, it is still big and uncomfortably hefty to carry around, and while illustrations are beautiful, the colours are somewhat washed out.
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University of Iowa Animal Lab Goes Underground
Critter News
JUNE 18, 2009
million for an underground vivarium that will house University of Iowa animal research laboratories. Tags: universities animal research animal laboratories. From the Des Moines Register. The Iowa Board of Regents approved $11.2 Vandals are not the greatest threat to animal researchers, it's transparency. And they know it.
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Animal Person
AUGUST 26, 2009
Just like property status isn't something I write about often and I would never have thought of, the same is true for the relationship between land-grant-universities and why some of us eat what/whom we eat. Today's message and call to action is from David Cantor of Responsible Policies for Animals (thanks, Mike!).
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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2024
The book is listed in the University of Chicago Press as the first in an “Earth Day” series , described as a series of short books offering “twenty-four chapters, corresponding to twenty-four hour-long windows to witness the diversity of life.” Hauber; Illustrated by Tony Angell University of Chicago Press, Dec.
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Kansas University Tries to Correct Welfare Violations
Critter News
DECEMBER 22, 2009
Kansas University Medical Center was nailed by USDA inspectors for violations including improper treatment for sick animals, aging facilities and failing to provide appropriate enrichment opportunities for animals who appear to be under psychological stress.
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University of Washington Allows Primate to Starve to Death
Critter News
JANUARY 12, 2010
I went to graduate school at the University of Washington here in Seattle. Tags: animal research University of Washington USDA. I've been hearing nightmare stories about the Primate Center for years. The ineptness and cruelty continues, but all in the name of "putting people first." They have a friend that works at this vile place.
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USDA Investigating Clemson University
Critter News
MAY 15, 2009
Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research USDA medical research.
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
Tags: university research university of south dakota PETA.
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