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Countryside Care
Kale Johnson and Elizabeth Lake come from opposite ends of the spectrum. Johnson, who hails from a rural community with a population of less than 2,200 in the Texas Panhandle, grew up around a variety of livestock. In comparison, Lake, who was raised in the heart of Dallas, primarily spent her early years around dogs […]
Online Clinical Rotations Let CVM Veterinary Students Complete Education Despite Pandemic
When Texas A&M University made the decision to move all classes online for the remainder of the spring 2020 semester because of the COVID-19 pandemic, professors at the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) were faced with the unique challenge of determining how to provide fourth-year veterinary students (4VMs) with online clinical rotations. […]
Cut From The Same Cloth
Veterinary medicine runs in the Tabone family. Growing up in Colleyville, Amanda Tabone spent much of her free time at the veterinary hospital where both her father, veterinarian George Tabone ’93, and mother, veterinary nurse Katy Tabone, were employed. “I spent a good portion of my summers at the hospital, even starting in late elementary […]
Texas A&M VET Deploys To Support Tornado Recovery
Seventeen members of the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) deployed to Onalaska, Texas, on Saturday morning to serve citizens affected by the tornado that struck East Texas on Wednesday. In Polk County, VET members will work with community sheltering operations to provide veterinary medical care to animals injured in the storm, which killed three […]
Eyes On The Prize
The majority of Texas A&M veterinary students go on to careers in general practice, but some become so enthralled with specific branches of medicine that they decide to dedicate their entire careers to that field. Such is the case with Annalis Cigarroa, Maria Granello, and Hunter Enderle, who plan to take their professional aspirations to […]
CVM To Hold Virtual Graduation For Veterinary Class Of 2020
Students in Texas A&M’s Veterinary Class of 2020 represent a couple of milestones for the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM). Not only will the students slated to graduate May 6 be the 100th class of Aggie veterinarians, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, they will earn the distinction of being the first […]
The Sky’s The Limit
Jillian Villalva has always been fascinated with birds. “As a kid, my parents would lose me when we were walking places because I would see some bird and want to follow it to figure out what it was doing,” said the fourth-year veterinary student. Growing up in Portland, Oregon, the force that drew her to […]
Taking The Bull By The Horns
Unlike with many of his peers, veterinary medicine wasn’t Timothy Turner’s first career choice. “I wanted to be an astronaut first, but when I was 10, I was fishing with my grandpa, and we found a big piece of metal in Lake Nacogdoches,” he said. “We started asking around to find out what it could […]
Texas A&M VMTH Curbside Admission, Discharge Update
In an effort to better serve patients, the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH) has adjusted its curbside admissions process for its Small and Large Animal Hospitals, effective April 20. Small Animal Curbside admission and discharge processes continue at the Small Animal Hospital (SAH); however, clients […]
DVM Class Of 2020 President Reflects On Leadership Role At CVM
Taylor Adams, the president of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) Class of 2020, is interested in the behind-the-scenes work that leadership requires. Adams had a great impact within the CVM, where the Dallas native endeavored to include as many different students and backgrounds as […]
