News Stories
Texas A&M Professors Reach Out to Budding Scientists
Scientists from Texas A&M University have shared their passion for science by visiting more than 30,000 students in their classrooms over the past five years as a result of PEER (Partnership for Environmental Education and Rural Health), an innovative outreach program of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Lighting a fire in youngsters […]
Womack Awarded $1 Million Grant For Cattle Genome Research
(COLLEGE STATION) Dr. James E. Womack, a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Animal Biotechnology and Genomics at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded a $1 million research grant from the Robert J. Kleberg and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation for cattle genome research. Womack was the […]
Economic Impact Report
In the first study of its kind, the field of veterinary medicine is credited with having a $1.72 billion economic impact on the state of Texas. Veterinary medicine services total $827 million annually, and when the multiplier effect – how much each dollar generates in related revenue is applied – more than $1.72 billion is […]
Dr. Woytek Receives Prestigious Texas A&M Foundation Award
COLLEGE STATION – January 1, 2005 – Dr. Oscar “Bubba” Woytek, Sr. Director of Development for Texas A&M University ‘s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Texas A&M Foundation Trustee Award “Dr. Woytek has been a positive force on the development team at the Foundation for the […]
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 […]
