News Stories
Dedication Ceremony for the Stevenson Companion Animal Life-Care Center Expansion Is October 1
COLLEGE STATION – September, 2004, Dedication of the newly completed expansion area of the Stevenson Companion Life-Care Center, which provides lifelong care of pets whose owners can no longer do so, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 1, at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University. […]
Guests
College Station – Three Iraqi veterinarians spent two weeks in August at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to learn how veterinary medicine is taught and practiced in the United States. Dr. Majid Hamid Nijidi, Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Baghdad was accompanied by […]
College Has New Name, Department Names
(College Station, TX) The Texas A&M University Board of Regents and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved a new name for the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) and three of its academic departments. The College of Veterinary Medicine is now officially the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. The former Department of Veterinary […]
AVMA President
College Station, Texas – Dr. Bonnie Beaver, a professor at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, assumed the Presidency of the American Veterinary Medical Association at a special installation ceremony on Tuesday, July 27, at the association’s national meeting in Philadelphia. Dr. Beaver is the second woman and the eighth veterinarian from Texas to […]
Student AVMA President-Elect
COLLEGE STATION, Texas- Travis McDermott, third-year student at The College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, was elected Student AVMA President-Elect at the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Convention held in Philadelphia, Pa., July 24-28, 2004. McDermott will serve as SAVMA President-Elect until its March 2005 Symposium when he will be installed as the Student […]
Brazos Valley Multiple Sclerosis Support Group
The 10th Annual English Tea benefiting members of the Brazos Valley Multiple Sclerosis Support Group (BVMSSG) was hosted at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University on May 15, 2004 by Dr. Jane Welsh, Associate Professor in the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Public Health and her scientific team. The English Tea provided a […]
Dallas County Community College District
College Station, Texas – The Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) have signed an agreement to facilitate the admission and academic transfer of students from the DCCCD campuses at Brookhaven, Cedar Valley, Mountain View and North Lake into the undergraduate Biomedical Science Program at Texas A&M. […]
Partners in Caring
College Station, TX, February 20, 2004- Dr. Margaret Slater, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Public Health has been awarded a “Partners in Caring” grant with The Brazos Feral Cat Allies (BFCA). They are working with the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH), College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, to provide additional veterinary medical care […]
Real-Life Pet Project: Student, Age 56, Seeking DVM Degree
COLLEGE STATION, Jan. 27, 2004 – Future veterinarian Pat Ryan looks at it this way: if she were a dog, she’d be 392 years old. The 56-year-old Ryan is in her third year of studies at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, a highly rigorous academic program for 20-somethings, much less a senior adult. […]
CVM Researchers First to Clone White-tailed Deer
COLLEGE STATION – In what is believed to be the first success of its kind, researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M University have cloned a white-tailed deer. A fawn, named “Dewey,” after Duane Kraemer, one of the researchers, was born to “Sweet Pea” a surrogate mother, on May 23, 2003. The […]
