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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 […]
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 […]
