News Stories
Texas A&M VET Deploys To Rio Grande Valley To Offer Shelter, Medical Assistance
More than 270 animals seized in South Texas’s Cameron County will be cared for by the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET), which was activated Wednesday night through a request by the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM). Animal responders from the Texas A&M University System—including 12 VET members, six fourth-year students on the Community […]
PEER Celebrates 20 Years of Service
This year, the Partnership for Environmental Education and Rural Health (PEER) Program at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) is celebrating 20 years of promoting science education in Texas middle and high schools. With interactive lessons, exciting guest speakers, and relevant topics, PEER brings the joys of science into classrooms […]
Student Explores Texas Panhandle Veterinary Careers with VERO Tour
The sweeping vistas of West Texas offer many opportunities to practice veterinary medicine–and Hannah Johnson wanted to explore her options firsthand. To do so, the third-year Texas A&M University veterinary student decided to devote part of her summer participating in the Veterinary Education, Research and Outreach (VERO) Food Production Tour. The six-day tour, offered through […]
Texas A&M University Brings Top-4 Veterinary Medicine Program to Texas Panhandle
Fourth-year veterinary students will begin clinical rotations in the Texas Panhandle in 2020, new students will begin enrolling in veterinary classes at VERO facility to start their first year of veterinary school in 2021. To read the full text of Green’s speech, click here. CANYON, Texas—Students from the Texas Panhandle won’t have to travel far […]
Veterinary Student Explores Career Options with VERO Tour
Jacob Willingham’s early years were spent at county fairs and major livestock shows across Texas. The Milano native started showing pigs and eventually bought a handful of sows so he could raise his own pigs. Soon, he was showing heifers and even today continues to raise cattle to sell to family friends. Not surprisingly, Willingham’s […]
Texas A&M Large Animal Surgeons Save Camel With Dislocated Hip
When Sybil the camel arrived at the Texas A&M Large Animal Hospital with a serious hip injury, very few believed that a successful surgery would be possible. Luckily, thanks to the faith of her owners and skill of her surgical team, Sybil has become one of the first camels to fully recover from a dislocated […]
Texas A&M, Uppsala Study Uncovers How Herring Adapted To Baltic Sea Light Environment
The evolutionary process that occurs when a species colonizes a new environment provides an opportunity to explore the mechanisms underlying genetic adaptation, which is essential knowledge for understanding evolution and the maintenance of biodiversity. An international team of scientists led by researchers from Texas A&M University and Uppsala University reports that a single amino acid […]
VERO Internship Introduces Student to Dairy Cattle Medicine
Asucena Ochoa’s first experiences with cattle were during her Houston high school’s agriculture classes. Now, however, after participating in Texas A&M University’s innovative Veterinary Education, Research and Outreach (VERO) Food Animal & Rural Practice Summer Internship Program, Ochoa is considering pursuing a career working in food animal production or in a rural practice that serves […]
McAllen Biomedical Sciences Program Experiences Student, Faculty Growth
Responding to regional industry needs, community planning, and student interest in the Rio Grande Valley, the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) extended its biomedical sciences (BIMS) program to the Texas A&M Higher Education Center at McAllen last fall. Now celebrating its first full year of operations, the program is experiencing […]
Texas A&M Superfund Center Partners with National Taiwan University
A memorandum of understanding between Texas A&M University and National Taiwan University will strengthen collaborations in the areas of disaster research and preparedness and provide both institutions with the opportunity to study disaster response on a global scale. Dr. Ivan Rusyn, director of the Texas A&M Superfund Research Center and University Professor at the College […]
