AVMA News

MARCH 6, 2023

Applications for the federal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program are now being accepted until April 17.

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MARCH 28, 2023

Under the ADMC Program, racing will have centralized testing driven by an investigative unit and will institute harmonization among laboratories. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s (HISA) Anti-Doping and Medication Control (ADMC) officially launched March 27.

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AVMA News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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AVMA News

MARCH 6, 2024

Among them are five consultative site visits to proposed veterinary programs vying for accreditation. The AVMA Council on Education (AVMA COE) will have its hands full with 14 scheduled site visits for the remainder of this year.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

“Critter Fixers: Country Vets” has been nominated for a NAACP Image Award in the category of “Outstanding Reality Program, Reality Competition or Game Show (Series)” and voting by the public is open until February 24.

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AVMA News

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The awards program recognizes contributions by veterinarians and nonveterinarians to the veterinary profession and to animal health and welfare. Summary: The nomination period is open for the 2024 AVMA Excellence Awards.

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AVMA News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Betty McCollum of Minnesota as part of the AVMA Fellowship Program. Mariah Lancaster will spend the next year as a scientific adviser in the office of U.S.

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AVMA News

JUNE 9, 2023

The Journey for Teams (JFT) program has had more than 11,000 users since its launch in 2022. The program will celebrate its one-year anniversary at AVMA Convention 2023 this July in Denver along with designated DEI continuing education (CE) sessions.

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AVMA News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Brosnahan as program chair and president-elect. The American Veterinary Medical History Society (AVMHS) held its annual meeting virtually on July 6. The society presented awards and seated new officials, including Dr. John H. de Jong as president and Dr. Margaret M.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Hundreds of veterinary students who spent the summer conducting mentored biomedical research as part of the Veterinary Scholars Program came together in early August to share their findings.

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AVMA News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Borkowski will serve as the new CEO of AAALAC International, a nonprofit that promotes the humane treatment of animals in science through voluntary accreditation and assessment programs.

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AVMA News

MAY 25, 2023

Bipartisan legislation would increase funding, up to $265 million, for federal programs aimed at preventing and combating destructive foreign animal diseases such as avian influenza and foot-and-mouth disease.

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AVMA News

MARCH 13, 2023

The Comparative Oncology Program at the National Institutes of Health, which promotes the study of cancer in dogs, manages the Comparative Oncology Trials Consortium to conduct clinical trials and recently has focused more on the biology of cancer in dogs.

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AVMA News

AUGUST 10, 2023

That’s why the AVMA and Western Veterinary Partners have joined to launch the Unsung Heroes awards program, which acknowledges five staff members—including veterinary technicians, customer service representatives, and kennel workers—from Colorado for their dedication and hard work in keeping veterinary practices operating.

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AVMA News

MARCH 20, 2023

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. Knapp at Purdue University and Dr. Steven Dow at Colorado State University, two of many veterinarians working in the field.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

The lawsuit alleges that the City of Albuquerque partnered with animal advocate groups to implement a Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) program in which stray or feral cats are trapped, sterilized, vaccinated, and then abandoned at the location at which they were trapped. Blair Dunn on behalf of Marcy Britton, a resident of Albuquerque.

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AVMA News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

3-6, 2022, meeting, the AVMA Committee on Veterinary Technician Education and Activities made changes to the accreditation policy manual, asked for public comments regarding accreditation standards, and announced four technician programs that are closing in 2023. At its Nov.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

During their tenure, the AVMA Trust began offering a retirement plan option to practice owners and self-employed veterinarians and introduced the return of a health insurance program for AVMA members.

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AVMA News

JANUARY 18, 2024

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MARCH 16, 2011

Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program Bird Deaths in Washington D.C. Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program By Corey • March 16, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share City Wildife , an organization in Washington D.C. that is dedicated to conserving wildlife in the U.S. for migratory birds.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2008

I was particularly interested in the list of program sponsors. Wildlife Crime Watch" is a new program implemented by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. This program is a proactive effort to develop a partnership between citizens and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

PETA's undercover investigation showed some really questionable practices going on in the University of Utah's animal research program. Here, the Salt Lake Tribune tries to smooth things over by showing the "happy side, " by talking about the research subjects that end up being adopted. Well, I guess those are the lucky ones.

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JULY 26, 2023

It is hosted by the National Wildlife Refuge Association , a non-profit that supports programs that protect, promote, and enhance the National Wildlife Refuge System. The bulletin is written by Paul Baicich and Wayne Petersen, and it is distributed via email at the beginning of each month.

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

As shorebirds look for suitable sites to spend up to 9 months in their wintering grounds, biologists with the Pan-American Shorebird Banding Program also start preparing for a new banding campaign. I am an associate with this NGO and follow the progress of the banding program. CORBIDI’s shorebird banding team at work.

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JUNE 16, 2021

Birdathons are typically used by state programs and chapters to raise critical funding for conservation and research programs. Zooming in on the Orchard Oriole. 2021 marked the second year I participated in a Birdathon for Audubon Florida.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

“Obviously the Spay, Neuter, Release program is just not working – cause where are the kittens coming from.” The program that we seemed to have in place does not seem to be working,” Keith said. Instead of T-N-R you should support the American Bird Conservancy’s Cats Indoors program.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It was not until I was able to get much closer that I spotted the red band on the other leg, as it was somewhat obscured by the “muck” It was then that I learned about the Pan American Shorebird Program. The program established clear protocols for marking shorebirds, with color coded flag bands for each country, or country group.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in the 1980s to be part of a captive breeding program. Audubon thought there should be some wild condors to serve as “guide birds” for condors that would eventually be released from the captive breeding program. Audubon explains its role in the recovery program and litigation here.)

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Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I'm enrolled in an educational program where I conducting research on designing a pet recommendation app. Hi everyone! Please fill out the survey if you are interested. link] ​ submitted by /u/axesspwns [link] [comments]

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JULY 5, 2022

FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. And I don’t think that will be many people. ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

federal government’s Operation Migration program, which has used ultralight aircraft to teach migration routes to the endangered cranes, has flown its last group of Whoopers from Wisconsin to Florida. Over 15 years, the program sought to boost the cranes’ numbers and enable them to someday flourish without intervention.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell was so disappointed that congress has allowed America’s most important conservation program to expire that she issued the following statement: “After 50 years of resounding success in enriching America’s great outdoors, the Land and Water Conservation Fund needlessly faces an uncertain future.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2013

Of all the dollars spent bagging ducks, a piece of the pie goes to the federal duck stamp program , which just went on sale; anyone over the age of 16 who wants to hunt migratory ducks needs to buy the stamp annually, and the funds raised go toward conservation and preserving and improving habitat for ducks and hunters alike.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The writer is from Stop UBC Animal Research, so there is a bias. But, still, an informative overview.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

When I was a preschooler, I wasn’t allowed to watch much television, but I did get a double-dose of public programming — the PBS station out of Buffalo and the CBC beaming across the border from Ontario both showed a lot of material that met with my mother’s approval and my own.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The logic goes like this: Grey-headed Swamphen are an invasive species that has spread in Florida from a few escapees, and is now fairly widespread in South Florida after initial eradication programs failed. In 2013, it was even included in the birdwatching list of the American Birding Association.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

So don’t you think his new program Aerial Assassins featuring Harris’s Hawks is going to be awesome? Show your support for awesome nature programming by watching tonight January 20 on National Geographic WILD. ( As a bonus, James has promised to give us the inside scoop on the making of Aerial Assassins next month!

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