News Stories
New CT Scanner Provides Faster More Detailed Animal Exams
COLLEGE STATION – Small animals are benefiting greatly from a new, state-of-the-art imaging system, helical CT, which allows radiologists at Texas A&M University ‘s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to obtain detailed wafer-thin cross-sections of internal anatomy without the need for surgery. With helical CT or “helical CAT scan,” x-ray technology and high-speed […]
World of Veterinary Medicine Changing, Beaver Tells Graduates
Thursday, May 12, 2005 – COLLEGE STATION – The world of veterinary medicine is changing faster than at any time in its history, Bonnie Beaver, professor of veterinary medicine and current president of the American Veterinary Medical Association, said Thursday during commencement ceremonies at Texas A&M University. Beaver, addressing the 123 graduates who received their […]
Houston Native, 57, Becomes Oldest to Get Veterinary Medical Degree
May 3, 2005 – At age 57, Pat Ryan says she is dog-gone tired. When she receives her degree next week (Thursday, May 12) from Texas A&M University ‘s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the Houston native will become the oldest person ever in Texas to graduate with a veterinary medicine degree. It’s […]
First Cloned Horse in North America Born at Texas A&M
WHAT: In what is believed to be the first success of its kind in North America, researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University have successfully cloned a horse. The privately owned colt named Paris Texas was cloned from the adult skin cells biopsied from its genetic donor by […]
Outstanding Veterinary Alumni To Be Honored
(COLLEGE STATION, TX) – The College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, will be honoring five outstanding alumni at a ceremony on April 15, 2005, at the George Bush Library Conference Center. Brigadier General Michael B. Cates, DVM, Class of `80, is the highest-ranking veterinarian in the United States armed forces serving […]
AVMA Presidents
COLLEGE STATION, Mar. 11, 2005 – Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has a unique dual distinction – that of having a professor and a student head the top two veterinary posts in the country. Travis McDermott, a third-year veterinary student from La Grange , will be installed as the student […]
Jeff Corwin to Speak at SAVMA Symposium
COLLEGE STATION – Jeff Corwin, 2-time Emmy award-winning host of Animal Planet Network’s wildlife adventure series The Jeff Corwin Experience , will speak to veterinary students at Rudder Theater Saturday, March 12, as part of the Student American Veterinary Medical Association’s (SAVMA) Symposium hosted this year by Texas A&M University ‘s College of Veterinary Medicine […]
Texas A&M Contest Winners Recognized
COLLEGE STATION – Student winners of a drawing/essay contest co-sponsored by Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences PEER program and the University’s Chapter of Sigma Xi, Office of the Provost, will be recognized at a dinner held on March 8 at the University’s Presidential Conference Center. The Partnership for Environmental Education […]
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 […]
