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Dr. Elizabeth Crouch: A new leader committed to biomedical science education
Dr. Elizabeth Crouch was recently named the new assistant dean for undergraduate education at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), which means she is responsible for the undergraduate Biomedical Sciences Program (BIMS) within the college. Crouch is hardly new to Texas A&M University, however. She earned her bachelor’s degree in […]
BIMS graduate Jason Jennings named CEO of Scott & White Hospital, College Station
Jason Jennings, a ’95 graduate of the Texas A&M University biomedical sciences program, or BIMS, is currently serving as the chief executive officer for the Baylor Scott & White Hospital, College Station region, which celebrated its one-year anniversary in August 2014. “When the decision was made to build a new hospital in College Station, a […]
BIMS graduates conquer dental school Two top-ranking students have more in common than strong study prowess
Patrick and Austin Hodges graduated number three and number five, respectively, from Tascosa High School in Amarillo, Texas. So perhaps it is no surprise that the identical twins would graduate number one and number two in their dental class at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center in 2014. Before pursuing dental studies at Texas […]
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 […]
