Education

Columbia, Mo. - The University of Missouri-Columbia College of Veterinary Medicine has selected five finalists in the search to fill the school's dean position.

Fort Collins, Colo. - Colorado State University's (CSU) veterinary college turned 100 this year.

Ames, Iowa - 3/29/07 - Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine has been granted accreditation status by the American Veterinary Medical Association's Council on Education for the college's academic program, including a new partnership program with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Shawnee Mission, Kan. - Bayer Animal Health entered an employer partnership with UpLink, which is described as a community hub connecting area companies with teachers and students who want to further their skills and knowledge in math, engineering, technology and science.

Davis, Calif. - The University of California-Davis (UC-Davis) is in line to receive $4.5 million this year from a bond act voters passed statewide in November.

Knoxville, Tenn - The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine (UTCVM) is the first college to receive funds from the Global Initiatives in Veterinary Education (GIVE) program, designed to help develop partnerships with foreign veterinary schools.

COLUMBIA, MO - 1/24/07 - Tom and Betty Scott of Mission Hills, Kan., have given $2 million to the For All We Call Mizzou campaign at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

SACRAMENTO, CA - 1/23/07 - At its 90th annual convention, the California Cattlemen's Association (CCA) Livestock Memorial Research Fund (LMRF) approved a contribution of $50,000 to the University of California, Davis to fund the development of a promising foothill abortion vaccine in cattle.

URBANA, IL - 1/5/07 - Concern over the role of animals in antimicrobial resistance in humans and emerging infectious diseases - including avian influenza, monkey pox, E. coli 0157:H7 and salmonella - has escalated recently, not only in the United States, but also worldwide.

Fort Collins, Colo. - A voluntary quarantine at Colorado State University (CSU) was lifted following a late October outbreak of equine herpes virus type-1 (EHV-1).

Davis, Calif. - Voters approved a $10.4-billion bond on Nov. 7 to update and refurbish education buildings in California including the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine (UC-Davis).

GAINESVILLE, FL - 11/15/06 - A $1-million installment of a multimillion-dollar estate gift from Robin Weeks, a South Florida cattle ranch owner, to the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine will help ensure the construction of the Veterinary Education and Clinical Research Center, which includes a new small animal hospital.

Fort Collins, Colo. - Colorado State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is the nation's first to have an endowed professorship devoted to the study of alternative and complementary medicine, officials say.

Fort Collins, Colo. - A $1-million gift to Colorado State University's equine veterinary program will support internationally known equine orthopedics and reproduction research at the university.

COLUMBIA, MO - 9/29/06 - Joe Kornegay, DVM, PhD, professor and dean of the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine, has accepted a faculty position at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, effective October 16.

Urbana, IL - 9/13/06 - Three veterinarians have been selected by the University of Illinois (UI) College of Veterinary Medicine and its Veterinary Medical Alumni Association to be honored on September 14.

DAVIS, CALIF. - 9/8/06 - Corvids, including American crows, Yellow-billed Magpies, Western scrub-jays and other members of the Corvidae family, serve as the primary reservoirs or incubators for the mosquito-borne virus, according to research entomologist William Reisen of the Center for Vectorborne Diseases (also known as CVEC), a unit of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.

Fort Collins, Colo. - A rapid diagnostic test for seven animal diseases including foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) was designed in part by Colorado State University's (CSU) Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Hyperthermia combined with radiation treatment has received positive response in canines with macroscopic tumors in a clinical study at North Carolina State University (NCSU).

Fort Collins - Dr. Mo Salman, Colorado State University (CSU) epidemiologist and director of the Animal Health Population Institute, was the only American ever named to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for a three-year term.

Fort Collins, Colo. - Colorado State University (CSU) researchers developed a way to administer intravenous radiation drugs to bone cancer patients without causing damage to healthy cells and vital organs.

FORT COLLINS, COLO - 08/02/06 - A $1-million gift to Colorado State University's equine veterinary programs will be evenly split between the university's Gail Holmes Equine Orthopaedic Research Center and the Equine Reproduction Laboratory.

Davis, Calif. - Dr. Michael Kent, an investigator at the University of California-Davis, is exploring different drugs to help fight canine malignant melanoma.

Fort Collins, Colo. - Colorado State University (CSU) researchers have developed a way to deliver intravenous radiation drugs to bone cancer patients without causing damage to other healthy cells and vital organs, drastically reducing illness and other common side effects of toxic radiation treatments, the university reports.

PHILADELPHIA - 06/12/06 - For the first time, public money was used to improve the New Bolton Center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

Corvallis, Ore. - Oregon State University's (OSU) veterinary college remains fully accredited following the addition of a non-veterinarian as the program's dean, despite a published report in the March issue of DVM Newsmagazine.

Ithaca, N.Y. - Cornell University announced Dr. Donald Smith, the university's Austin O. Hooey Dean of Veterinary Medicine, will end his 10-year tenure in June 2007.

NORTH GRAFTON, MASS. - 4/28/06 - Deborah Turner-Kochevar DVM, PhD, was named dean of the Cumming's School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.