News Stories
Tizard Announced as 2011 Convocation Keynote Speaker
Dr. Ian Tizard, Richard M. Schubot Professor of Exotic Bird Health in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), has been selected as the keynote speaker for the 2011 Freshman Convocation on August 28, 2011 at 2:30 p.m. in Reed Arena. In the spirit of […]
Texas A&M University Researchers Receive More Than $14 Million from the USDA for Cattle Research
COLLEGE STATION, TX – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded two major grants totaling more than $14 million to investigators at Texas A&M University (TAMU) for conducting research on Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) and feed efficiency. These issues are of vital economic significance to the cattle industry and […]
Wigington Named Director of Facilities
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 […]
Old Deer, New Tricks: Seabury Applies Next Generation Sequencing to the White-Tailed Deer
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 Polymorphism and Comparative Analyses in the White-tailed […]
Cummings Joins Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
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 Veterinary Medicine in 1996, Cummings went […]
Student Volunteer Efforts Help to Train Future Equine Practitioners From all over the Nation
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 workshop’s launch […]
From Pony Club to Veterinary School
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 […]
“Superbug” Author to Speak Next Week at Texas A&M
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 […]
CVM Distinguished Professor Receives Grant from Department of Defense
Dr. Stephen Safe, distinguished professor of toxicology at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) and the Institute for Biotechnology (IBT) at the Texas A&M Health Sciences Center along with Dr. Mandip Sachdeva, professor of pharmaceutical sciences with the Florida A&M University College of Pharmacy, recently received a grant from the […]
CVM Accepts Major Gift from Mrs. Doris Simmons
Dr. Eleanor Green, Carl B. King dean of veterinary medicine, and Dr. Guy Sheppard, director of development, recently accepted a gift worth $325,000 from the estate of Mrs. Doris Simmons on behalf of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM). The executor of the estate, Dr. Alan Garrett, presented the gift […]
