Education

Antigua, West Indies -- American University of Antigua's (AUA) veterinary school suspended classes for 2012 and announced it would close the school at the end of the semester.

Blacksburg, Va. -- The veterinary college at Virginia-Tech is locked down after a gunman on campus opened fire near, killing two.

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Washington -- The Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges is now seeking applications for executive director, following the Oct. 31 resignation of veterinarian Marguerite Pappaioanou.

MSU cancels mobile clinic partly in response to concerns about competition from local DVMs.

Davis, Calif. - Dr. Patricia Conrad, a veterinary pathologist and professor at the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine (UC-Davis) has been elected to the Institute of Medicine.

Fort Collins, Colo. -- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) could not pinpoint the cause of a July fire that ripped through Colorado State University's (CSU) Equine Reproduction Laboratory office building, according to a recent report.

AVMA's Council on Education (COE) is proposing that veterinary schools adopt a system to better evaluate the skills of veterinary students.

Columbia, Mo. -- The University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine (MU) announced Nov. 7 that is has agreed to sell its research and diagnostic laboratory (RADIL) to IDEXX Laboratories for $43 million.

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Fairbanks, Alaska -- The University of Alaska Fairbanks is moving forward on a new partnership that will secure its students seats in Colorado State University's veterinary program.

Davis, Calif. - A $1.3 million grant to develop a new food-safety training program for government and industry has been awarded to the University of California-Davis.

West Lafayette, Ind. - Cash-strapped pet owners around Indianapolis are eligible for a new program announced in late September by the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine.

Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia (UGA) is inching forward on plan to build a new veterinary teaching hospital, and administrators are hopeful that groundbreaking could begin as early as next fall.

St. Kitts, West Indies -- Dr. Elaine Watson was named the new dean of the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine.

Pullman, Wash. ? The flags at Washington State University (WSU) were flown at half mast yesterday to pay tribute to veterinarian and researcher John R. Gorham after his recent passing.

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Washington -- Veterinarian Marguerite Pappaioanou resigned as executive director of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) effective Oct. 31.

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Philadelphia -- Ralph Brinster, the Richard King Mellon professor of reproductive physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) has become the first veterinarian to win the National Medal of Science.

Schaumburg, Ill. -- The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE) released new statements on the most critical issues facing veterinary medicine.

Leucadia, Calif. - The Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy (AVH) has asked a Virginia circuit court to award it more than $70,000 in damages after its continuing education (CE) courses were denied approval by the American Association of Veterinary State Boards' (AAVSB) Registry of Approved Continuing Education (RACE) Committee.

North Grafton, Mass. - Former dean of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University Franklin M. Loew, DVM, PhD, was posthumously awarded that 2011 Robert Shomer Award at the AVMA Convention in St. Louis in recognition of his significant contributions to veterinary medical ethics.

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Baton Rouge - Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Veterinary Medicine received $200,000 from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) for its shelter medicine program.

Davis, Calif. - A landmark donation-one of the largest ever received by the veterinary college-pulls the University of California-Davis closer to its billion-dollar fundraising goal.

Madison, Wis. - Long-time professor Dale Bjorling, DVM, has been named associate dean for research and graduate training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Vetrinary Medicine.

Grenada, West Indies -- St. George's University (SGU) School of Veterinary Medicine has been granted full accreditation by the American Veterinary Medical Association's (AVMA) Council on Education (COE).