April 06, 2011
COLLEGE STATION, TX - Sam Wigington, a
long time supporter of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary
Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), has assumed the position
of Director of Facilities at the CVM.
Wigington has been a loyal member of
the CVM since 1970 when he joined the Veterinary Pathobiology
department as a technician. Three years late... (Read More)
March 22, 2011
Dr. Kevin Cummings, formerly of the College of Veterinary
Medicine at Cornell University, recently joined the Department of
Veterinary Integrative Biosciences at the Texas A&M College of
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (CVM) as an assistant
professor of epidemiology.
After graduating with his DVM from
Cornell University's College of... (Read More)
March 22, 2011
COLLEGE STATION, TX - Together with his
team of scientists, Dr. Christopher M. Seabury, assistant professor
at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine &
Biomedical Sciences (CVM), utilized next generation sequencing
technologies to develop a working comparative knowledge of the
white-tailed deer genome. Their work entitled, "Genome-Wide
Polymo... (Read More)
February 21, 2011
On January 22, 2011, the Texas A&M
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM)
Student Chapter of the American Association of Equine Practitioners
(SCAAEP) hosted a workshop that brought in 250 participants from 22
veterinary schools around the nation. This year's sponsorship and
participation has been the highest on record since the worksh... (Read More)
February 14, 2011
Around one hundred and fifty pony
clubbers from the Rio Grande region visited the Texas A&M
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) on
January 15, 2011, "Aggie Day", to advance their Pony Club ranks and
become responsible horse owners.
Since 1994, every two years the Rio
Grande Region of the United States Pony Club sponso... (Read More)
November 24, 2010
COLLEGE STATION, Nov. 24, 2010 -
Journalist Maryn McKenna, who wrote "Superbug: The Fatal Menace of
MRSA" and "Beating Back the Devil," will speak on public health
Monday and Tuesday (Nov. 29-30) at Texas A&M University.
She will present "Superbug: The Story
and the Book" - an account of the global epidemic of
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aur... (Read More)