News Briefs
Girl Scouts have ‘Sweet’ Visit with VET
Each year during Girl Scout cookie season, the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council offers a “virtual cookie share,” through which cookies are donated to the council’s pre-determined choice. Scouts also collect donations in person and may choose to donate to a “brick and mortar” organization. This past cookie season our council designated the virtual […]
CVM-Hosted Scholars Symposium Breaks Attendance Records
More than 500 veterinary students from across the United States, Canada, and Europe converged at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) for three days of discussion on research and global health. The National Veterinary Scholars Symposium (NVSS) at the CVM, Aug. 2-4, included a record-breaking 663 guests who came to […]
CVM Welcomes DVM Class of 2022
Days before their peers returned to campus, the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) newest veterinary students in the Class of 2022 arrived the Veterinary & Biomedical Education Complex (VBEC) for three days of getting to know each other, the facilities, and the faculty and administration. During the CVM Class of […]
Texas A&M Receives Funding
West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) and the Texas A&M Veterinary Education, Research & Outreach (VERO) Center received a four-year, $243,500 grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA). Project director Dee Griffin, DVM, and co-director Dan Posey, DVM, both Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences faculty, relocated to WTAMU […]
Former Texas A&M Mascot Reveille VIII Dies At Age 12
COLLEGE STATION, June 25, 2018 – Former Texas A&M University mascot and “First Lady of Aggieland” Reveille VIII, who served from August 2008 until her retirement to Texas A&M’s Stevenson Companion Animal Life-Care Center in May 2015, passed away Monday, June 25. She was 12 years old. Veterinarians and student caretakers at the Stevenson Center […]
Texas A&M Researchers Document Genetic Copy-Number Changes in Roundworm Model
Diseases such as cancer and other chronic ailments are the result of copy-number changes in our genome, that is, when certain genes are accidentally duplicated to create extra copies or when genes are deleted so that they exist in fewer copies than normal. In addition to potential hazards to our health, changes in gene copy-number […]
Texas A&M Researchers Help Preserve History Through Equine Genetics Study
From the stunning rock formations to the fields of wild flowers, the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota offers more than 70,000 acres of adventure. The park is also home to some of the most majestic and breathtaking animals in the United States—wild horses. “Legend has it that the Teddy Roosevelt horses are descendants […]
PEER Travels Across State to Address More Than 750 Students, Teachers
The Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) PEER Program Veterinary Student Fellows reached more than 758 students during the month of July with presentations at the CVM, Houston, San Antonio, Midland, and Belton. PEER fellows Erin Eads and Melodie Raese continued their Summer Science Safari presentations each Tuesday afternoon, reaching approximately […]
CVM Offers Large Animal Instruction at College Station, West Texas 4-H Camps
The Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) joined with four other departments and organizations to host the 4-H Veterinary Science Camp in College Station and West Texas in June and July. The Veterinary Science Camp allows Texas 4-H members ages 13 to 18 years old to learn about large animal skills […]
CVM Celebrates College’s ‘Stars’ At Annual Staff Awards
Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) staff and faculty members gathered on July 31 to thank CVM staff for being the “stars” of the college, those whose excellent work via customer service, in the research laboratories and with the faculty, and behind the scenes in many other ways make the college […]
