April 19, 2013
Congrats to Miranda Bertram, CVM Merit Fellow, on being awarded
a $10,000 research grant from the American Association of
Zoological Veterinarians to support her whooping crane
research! This grant is part of the 'Zoological Medicine and
Wildlife Health' research program of AAZV and will allow Miranda to
develop a novel molecular typing system for helminths... (Read More)
April 15, 2013
Rachana Bhattarai, a
VIBS Epidemiology PhD student working under Dr. Christine Budke,
has been awarded a Schlumberger Foundation 2013-2014 Faculty for
the Future Fellowship. The Schlumberger Foundation is a nonprofit
entity that supports science and technology education. The program
supports talented women scientists from developing economies by
helping them pur... (Read More)
April 09, 2013
Congrats to Rachel Curtis, CVM
Merit Fellow and PhD student in VIBS in Dr. Sarah Hamer's lab, on
being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Of over 13,000
applicants, 2,000 were selected for this award, which provides
$30,000 per year in stipend plus a tuition waiver for 3 years.
This award will support Rachel as she studies the ecology and
ep... (Read More)
January 28, 2013
Miranda Bertram DVM, a PhD student in Dr. Sarah Hamer's lab, is
interested in the pathogens and parasites that are associated with
Whooping Cranes that may play a role in limiting population growth
of this endangered species. To address her questions, Miranda
conducts noninvasive fecal sampling of Whooping Cranes on their
wintering grounds at Aransas National Wil... (Read More)
November 14, 2012
Antibiotic resistance is a well-known menace: Witness the
dangers of hospital-acquired MRSA infections, or the totally
drug-resistant tuberculosis found in India earlier this year. FDA
statistics show that over 80 percent of antibiotics used in the US
are given to livestock, and heavy animal use is thought to be one
of the drivers of resistance among human pathog... (Read More)
October 22, 2012
COLLEGE STATION, TX- Out of 57 applicants, Dr. Sarah Hamer,
assistant professor at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary
Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), placed third in the Young
Investigator Competition at the Merial NIH National Veterinary
Scholars Symposium for her research on infectious zoonotic
pathogens.
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