News Stories
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 […]
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 […]
