Education

Ithaca. N.Y. -- Cornell University?s College of Veterinary Medicine isn?t planning on waiting for customers to come through its hospital doors. Instead, the school has signed a 10-year lease to open the Cornell University Veterinary Specialists (CUVS), a satellite referral and 24-hour emergency care hospital, in the New York metro area, by early 2011.

West Lafayette, Ind. -- Purdue University plans to expand its emergency services beginning July 1, as part of a collaborative effort with the Animal Emergency Clinic near the school.

St. Louis -- The goal of the meeting was to bring together a group of primary-care educators to talk about the real-world skills veterinary students need.

National Report -- The numbers of new veterinary graduates will increase by 3 percent this year.

Fort Collins, Colo. -- Colorado State University has received a $15 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development to study the impact of climate change on global livestock systems, particularly those in developing countries.

Davis, Calif. -- The University of California, Davis (UC-Davis) earned 231 awards from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act totaling more than $100 million, the school reports.

Schaumburg, Ill. - A Mexican veterinary school is appealing a failed accreditation request made recently to the American Veterinary Medical Association's (AVMA's) Council on Education (COE).

Kansas City, Mo. - "Education speed-dating." That's how one participant described the first of three days of discussion about the present and future of veterinary education at a meeting of the North American Veterinary Medical Education Consortium (NAVMEC).

Kennett Square, Pa. - After five years of planning and about year of construction, the new James M. Moran, Jr. Critical Care Center was set to open June 1 at the New Bolton Center campus at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

Columbus ?- The Ohio State University (OSU) renamed its veterinary teaching hospital to better reflect the depth of services offered.

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Davis, Calif. -- The Center for Equine Health at the University of California-Davis (UC-Davis) received a $3 million gift from the William and Inez Mabie Family Foundation to support the center's research and teaching efforts.

Specialists receive recognition from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) for their contributions to veterinary and human health.

National Report -- High schoolers will have a chance to earn certification as human-medicine and veterinary paraprofessionals in a new program starting this fall.

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Madison, Wis. -- A 32-year veteran of high-risk research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine was suspended from working on any projects above Level 1 biosecurity clearance after his unauthorized experiments on an antibiotic-resistant strain of brucellosis were discovered.