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When it comes to business, veterinary students are pulling a C-minus average, according to a national survey.

Stillwater, Okla. - It began with the college newspaper's interview with a philanthropist who said she wanted to redirect her $5 million gift to Oklahoma State University's Center for Veterinary Health Sciences because of the way animals used in teaching and research there were treated.

Fort Collins, Colo. -- Looking at a dog's tongue to diagnose illness may not be the best method, research from Colorado State University shows.

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Pullman, Wash. -- The Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine approved a deal to open a new satellite clinic in Spokane next year.

Baton Rouge, La. -- A successful surgery on a bleeding tumor in a 10-year-old Labrador Retriever earned the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine $100,000 in thanks from the dog's owners.

It has a 1-in-700,000 chance of happening, but a cow gave birth to triplets at WSU March 17.

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Philadelphia -- Dr. Frederick A. Murphy has been selected as the 2009 recipient of the Penn Vet World Leadership Award, earning him $100,000 in unrestricted funding.

Urbana, Ill. -- Students could spend their first weeks of veterinary school in clinical rotations if a curriculum overhaul is adopted at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine.

National Report -- Veterinary students in two states will have access to more scholarship funds despite the tightening economy.

Columbia, Mo. -- A veterinary ophthalmologist at the University of Missouri identified a genetic link between cats and humans for two forms of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a discovery that could lead to gene-based therapies benefiting cats and humans.

Ames, Iowa- An NIH-affiliated organization doled out more than $4 million in grants to two veterinary researchers at Iowa State University (ISU) to further study Parkinson's disease.

Minneapolis/St. Paul -- The University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, in conjunction with the university's Masonic Cancer Center, has established a new Animal Cancer Care and Research (ACCR) program.

Dr. Sarah Cleaveland discusses the Afya Serengeti Project for Rabies Vaccination and Control.

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Dr. Sarah Cleaveland discusses the Afya Serengeti Project for Rabies Vaccination and Control.

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Blacksburg, Va. -- A professor of veterinary anatomy and physiology at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine was awarded the Carl J. Norden-Pfizer Distinguished Teaching Award, considered the nation's top veterinary teaching award.

Orlando - Veterinarians and students came together to consider ways to ease staggering veterinary student indebtedness.

National Report -- Researchers in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia and at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine each landed million-dollar grants to study war-related treatments.

Pullman, Wash. -- Bryan Slinker, interim dean of the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine since November, accepted the college's offer to take over the position on a permanent basis.

Center for Veterinary Health Sciences issued strongly worded rebuttals to comments by the wife of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens about how the veterinary school treats animals it uses in teaching and research.

West LaFayette, Ind. -- The School of Veterinary Medicine at Purdue University is celebrating its 50th anniversary.