News Briefs
Family Establishes Endowment for Late Son, Budding Veterinarian
Sebastian Jon Weiskopf had a contagious smile that not only put people at ease, and attracted people to him, but revealed his confidence, strong sense of self, and humility. One of the things that always brought that smile to Weiskopf’s face was animals. From the time he was 2 years old, Weiskopf had many pets […]
CVM Student in West Texas Offers Helping Hand during Disaster
After a thunderstorm with high winds, and possibly even a tornado, hit Deer Creek Calf Ranch late in the afternoon on June 22, an estimated 12,000 calf hutches were lost at the Dalhart, Texas, farm. So when Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) alumnus Dr. Joe Hillhouse and his intern Elizabeth […]
PEER Educators Reach 700 Students During June Presentations
Veterinary students in the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) PEER program traveled throughout the Bryan/College Station and Houston areas during the month of June to give presentations to approximately 700 students. PEER fellows Erin Eads and Melodie Raese spent the first two Saturdays of June at the Animal Days events […]
Reps from Tennessee University Discuss Collaboration Opportunities with CVM
Two representatives from Lincoln Memorial University (LMU), a private liberal arts college in Harrogate, Tennessee, were given a grand Aggie welcome to the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) during a two-day visit June 29-30. Drs. Pete DeBusk, chairman of the LMU board of trustees, and Jason Johnson, vice president and […]
Texas A&M’s CET, PCVE Collaborate To Create Primary Care Educational Resources
Veterinary students across the country will have the opportunity to learn more about preventive care through modules created by the Center for Educational Technologies (CET) at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) beginning this fall. Working with the Primary Care Veterinary Educators (PCVE) and Partners for Healthy Pets (PHP), the […]
Rusyn Selected to Lead Committee Examining EPA Program
Dr. Ivan Rusyn, a professor of toxicology in the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences (VIBS), will chair a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Workshop Committee that will support changes being implemented to the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System […]
VetFolio Begins Distributing CET Teaching Materials
The Center for Educational Technologies (CET) at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) will share its educational resources with veterinarians across the country thanks to a collaboration with VetFolio, the online educational branch of the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) and the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA). Through the collaboration, […]
Doctoral Student Earns Merit Award for Innovative Abstract
Raine Lunde-Young, a second-year doctoral student in the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences‘ (CVM) Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology (VTPP), has been selected to receive the Kenneth Warren Merit Award for her late-breaking and novel abstract entitled “Prenatal alcohol exposure produces sex-dependent patterns of gene disruption and molecular pathways in […]
Researchers Observe Striking Differences Between Brains of Wild, Domesticated Rabbits
The most characteristic feature of domestic animals is their tame behavior. Using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the team—led by Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) professor Leif Andersson—has found that domesticated rabbits’ amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex, those regions of the brain involved in fear processing, have been particularly effected. […]
Rare Procedure Saves Dachshund
For Klause — a 2-year-old red dachshund with an infectious personality—the road to recovery seemed out of sight after a mauling by an unknown animal left him almost unrecognizable. But thanks to the work of a team of doctors at the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH), Klause has returned home and is expected […]
