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BIMS Program Funds Students for Fall Enrollment
The Texas A&M biomedical sciences undergraduate program, or BIMS-which is the only undergraduate program fully within the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences-welcomed approximately 2,100 students for the 2014 fall semester’s enrollment, with 800 of them as incoming freshmen. “It is safe to estimate that approximately 70 percent of the incoming class of students […]
Dr. H. Morgan Scott: Viewing Epidemiology through a Different Lens
Dr. H. Morgan Scott has ridden his bicycle around the world, but he keeps coming back to College Station. Scott, an epidemiologist and infectious disease expert who taught at Texas A&M University from 2001–2009, has returned to the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science (CVM) after a stretch as the E.J. Frick […]
Powerful Collaborations Work to Solve Multifactorial Salmonella Challenge
“We’ve made little progress in reducing the incidence of salmonellosis in people over the last 15 years. As a result, salmonella remains one of our predominant threats to food safety,” said Dr. Kevin Cummings, assistant professor of epidemiology in the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical […]
Dr. Ken Muneoka: A Pioneer of Regenerative Medicine
In the summer of 1978, graduate student Ken Muneoka attended a popular course on embryology at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The course, taught by Muneoka’s future mentor, marked a crucial shift in his academic career. Almost four decades have passed since Muneoka attended that course, which transformed the way he thought […]
In their own words: International graduate student autobiographical sketches
Hamid Alkar My interest in animals stems from working on my family’s farms. When I was growing up in Libya, my grandfather and my father each had a farm with many sheep and goats. I started helping my grandfather with his farm when I was about seven or eight years old. At first I simply […]
A Grand Challenge: One Health research proposals funded
The One Health Initiative was formally started at Texas A&M University in 2011 to be a collaborative effort of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain sustainable optimal health. The initiative is dedicated to the discovery, development, communication, and application of knowledge in a wide range of academic and professional fields, providing the […]
One Healthy Village at a Time: Changes in Ometepe, Nicaragua
Two volcanoes dominate the landscape of Ometepe, the largest island in the Lake of Nicaragua. Concepción, the active volcano in the northern part of the island, has a picturesque conical shape. The ash it generates during eruptions enriches the island’s soil, creating fertile farmland used for sustainable farming by Ometepe’s inhabitants. Maderas, its extinct counterpart […]
A Boy and His Horse: The Large Animal Hospital helps restore a special bond
It is often said that dogs are man’s best friends, but sometimes a horse can be a boy’s best friend. Throughout history, humans and their horses have shared a unique bond. Drawn to their overwhelming power and mystique, they continue to be an integral part of our lives. Ten-year-old Kaden Ramirez and his horse, George, […]
Love to the Max: Texas A&M veterinarians help a family through the pain of canine cancer
Upon entering the Bhatia home in Houston, it’s apparent that the family dog, Maxamillion, is as much a thread in the fabric of the household as his human counterparts. With an energetic tail and a doggy smile, Max is the first to greet any guest. In nearly every framed photo in the home, he poses […]
A Love of Horses Leads to a Legacy of Equine Research
Ask anyone who knew her, and they would tell you that Patsy Link had a deep love of horses beginning in her early childhood. Working with horses was a central part of her life and a source of great happiness for her. This love of horses led Link to leave much of her estate to […]
