Education

Chicago - The new Chicago Center for Veterinary Medicine is scheduled to open in March in collaboration with the University of Illinois.

Philadelphia -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year.

Pullman, Wash. -- A $25,000 scholarship has been established in honor of Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine former dean, Warwick Bayly.

A veterinary forensics program, under development by ASPCA and the University of Florida, was unveiled this week.

North Grafton, Mass. -- Tufts wants to harness the wind to power its veterinary school.

Stillwater, Okla. -- The Oklahoma State University Foundation received a $225,000 grant from Novartis Animal Health for laboratory renovations and start-up costs for the National Center for Veterinary Parasitology.

West Lafayette, Ind. -- An exo-skeleton-type brace, made by students at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine, may be a new tool for dogs suffering from hip dysplasia.

College Station, Texas - Veterinary medicine is changing, and Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences' new dean Dr. Eleanor M. Green, is ready to address that change.

Davis, Calif. - The University of California-Davis mourns the loss of one of the founding members of the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory.

Ithaca, N.Y. -- The College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University will host a Zoonotic Diseases Symposium Feb. 6-8, and the featured speaker will be DVM Lonnie King, director of the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The UF College of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Education and Clinical Research Center will include a new small-animal hospital.

Blacksburg, Va. - Virginia Tech's veterinary college recently appointed Drs. Kent Scarratt and Jacqueline Pelzer to fill positions within the school.

Manhattan, Kan. -- The one health initiative has a new champion as retired Brig. Gen. Michael B. Cates prepares to join Kansas State University as the director of its master of public health program.

College Park, Md. -- A team of researchers specializing in the study of the Avian Influenza virus, H9N2, at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine say they have developed a universal vaccine for animals that may also help prevent or delay the spread of the virus to humans.

Alameda, Calif. -- Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine will follow in the footsteps of Cornell by launching a new shelter medicine program with a grant from the nonprofit Maddie's Fund.

St. Simons Island, Ga. -- The Simmons Education Fund has that it increase the prize amounts it awards to veterinary students through its Business Aptitude Award Program to $100,000.

Madison, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine is starting a new campaign to bring former students back to campus - for research.

Davis, Calif. -- The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) School of Veterinary Medicine will be a part of a new School of Global Health at University of California, San Francisco, thanks to a $4 million grant from the Bill and Melina Gates Foundation.

Corvallis, Ore. -- The Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Oregon State University received a full five-year accreditation from the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians based on a three-day site visit last August.

Philadelphia -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of Business are teaming up to offer what is being called the Executive Veterinary Leadership Program.

Perry, Iowa -- The American Association of Swine Veterinarians Foundation (AASVF) is accepting applications for the Hogg Scholarship through Feb. 2, 2009.

Fort Collins, Colo. -- Colorado State University is working to make a difference a world away, by organizing a donation of tetanus vaccines for about 5,000 working horses and donkeys in Ethiopia.

College Station, Texas -- If confirmed next month, Dr. Eleanor M. Green will be the next dean at Texas A&M's veterinary college.

Manhattan, Kan. -- There soon will be online help for veterinarians with camelid questions, thanks to a $20,000 gift to Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine from the Mid-America Alpaca Foundation.

Ithaca, N.Y. -- Researchers at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine have developed a vaccine against Johne's disease, a contagious, chronic and often fatal infection.

Kennett Square, Pa. - Is this country ready for an agroterrorism attack? The FBI recently worked with the veterinary school at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center. Six Penn veterinary students participated.

Knoxville, Tenn.- A $5 million federal grant will help the University of Tennessee develop training programs for animal-related disasters.

Boston - Henry L. Foster, DVM, died of cancer Oct. 14. Foster helped found Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.