News Stories
CVM Researcher Finds Yellow Fever Elimination Threshold Higher Than Previous Estimates
Vaccination coverage of up to 95 percent might be required to eliminate yellow fever epidemics in high-risk transmission areas in Africa, a new study from Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) researcher Dr. Martial Ndeffo has found. In other areas of West Africa and the Equatorial region of Latin America, a […]
CVM Researchers Receive Grants from Morris Animal Foundation
Two faculty researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) have received funding from Morris Animal Foundation for studies they began last spring with the goal of improving equine health and the future of the veterinary industry. Dr. Noah Cohen, a professor in the CVM’s Department of Large Animal Clinical […]
VERO Partnership Serves Citizens of Texas Panhandle Through Education, Research, Outreach
Story by Dorian Martin A groundbreaking partnership between Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) and West Texas A&M University’s (WTAMU) ) Paul Engler College of Agriculture & Natural Sciences (PECANS) has created an infrastructure that connects students and researchers from the two Texas A&M University System entities to the citizens […]
CVM’s Arenas Receives $5 Million For First Comprehensive Brucellosis Study In Cameroon
Dr. Angela Arenas, an assistant professor in the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) Department of Veterinary Pathobiology (VTPB) has been awarded a $5 million research grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense (DoD), that will fund a five-year […]
CVM Student Spends Summer Working Aboard Alaskan Veterinary Boat
When Linda Buehler, a third-year veterinary student at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), decided to visit her aunt and uncle in Alaska during the summer, she could only hope that there would happen to be a veterinarian with whom she could work. Luckily, Petersburg, a small town of 3,000 […]
Texas A&M VET, AgriLife Deploy To Chambers County For Imelda Flooding
Click here to read about the VET’s first deployment this month to Cameron County. Members of the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) hadn’t even put their feet back on the ground in College Station before receiving a second deployment request for assistance related to the catastrophic flooding resulting from Tropical Depression Imelda. Twenty-one VET […]
Cohen Receives Top-Level AVMA Clinical Research Award
Dr. Noah Cohen, a professor of large animal internal medicine in the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) Large Animal Clinical Sciences Department (VLCS), has been recognized with the 2019 Clinical Research Award from the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) for his contributions to equine medicine. The AVMA selected Cohen for […]
CVM Ph.D. Student, Alumnus Establish Arab Toxicologists Association
Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) Ph.D. student Hadil Al Muhisen and former student Dr. Ziad Naufal were instrumental in establishing the Arab Toxicologists Association (ATA) within the Society of Toxicology (SOT), the international professional toxicology organization, in spring 2019. Founded in 1961, the SOT consists of scientists from academic […]
Exploring A Passion for Rural Medicine
Tori Chambers, a third-year veterinary student at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), has a passion for rural veterinary medicine. Her experience this summer working for four weeks as an extern at Quitman Animal Clinic, a rural mixed animal practice about an hour north of Tyler, has only strengthened her […]
CVM Doctoral Student Earns Prestigious NIH Grant
Raine Lunde-Young, a doctoral student in the Ramadoss research group at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), has been awarded a prestigious F31 predoctoral grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH F31 grants are unique in that they collectively recognize the quality of Lunde-Young’s research, the excellence of […]
