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Blacksburg, Va. -- A professor of veterinary anatomy and physiology at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine was awarded the Carl J. Norden-Pfizer Distinguished Teaching Award, considered the nation's top veterinary teaching award.

Orlando - Veterinarians and students came together to consider ways to ease staggering veterinary student indebtedness.

National Report -- Researchers in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia and at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine each landed million-dollar grants to study war-related treatments.

Pullman, Wash. -- Bryan Slinker, interim dean of the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine since November, accepted the college's offer to take over the position on a permanent basis.

Center for Veterinary Health Sciences issued strongly worded rebuttals to comments by the wife of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens about how the veterinary school treats animals it uses in teaching and research.

West LaFayette, Ind. -- The School of Veterinary Medicine at Purdue University is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Pullman, Wash. -- The dismal economy has prompted Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine to cancel its 2009 Conference for Veterinarians and Veterinary Technicians slated for next month in Spokane.

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Davis, Calif. -- The Center for Companion Animal Health, University of California, Davis, received a $100,000 grant for the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program from the ASPCA.

Schaumburg, Ill. - Seven of nine resolutions where approved by the AVMA's House of Delegates in January.

Manhattan, Kan. - Retired Brig. General Michael B. Cates was named director of Kansas State University's master of public health program.

Denver - Canine cancer is the subject of an online presentation from Morris Animal Foundation.

Columbus, Ohio - One of the nation's largest veterinary colleges is without a permanent dean and squeezed for state funding.

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Knoxville, Tenn. - The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine has been moved from full to limited accreditation for the next two years.

Chicago - The new Chicago Center for Veterinary Medicine is scheduled to open in March in collaboration with the University of Illinois.

Philadelphia -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year.

Pullman, Wash. -- A $25,000 scholarship has been established in honor of Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine former dean, Warwick Bayly.

A veterinary forensics program, under development by ASPCA and the University of Florida, was unveiled this week.

North Grafton, Mass. -- Tufts wants to harness the wind to power its veterinary school.

Stillwater, Okla. -- The Oklahoma State University Foundation received a $225,000 grant from Novartis Animal Health for laboratory renovations and start-up costs for the National Center for Veterinary Parasitology.

West Lafayette, Ind. -- An exo-skeleton-type brace, made by students at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine, may be a new tool for dogs suffering from hip dysplasia.

College Station, Texas - Veterinary medicine is changing, and Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences' new dean Dr. Eleanor M. Green, is ready to address that change.

Davis, Calif. - The University of California-Davis mourns the loss of one of the founding members of the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory.

Blacksburg, Va. - A long-time fixture at he Virginia-Maryland Regional College of veterinary Medicine hander over her reins, literally.

Ithaca, N.Y. -- The College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University will host a Zoonotic Diseases Symposium Feb. 6-8, and the featured speaker will be DVM Lonnie King, director of the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The UF College of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Education and Clinical Research Center will include a new small-animal hospital.

Blacksburg, Va. - Virginia Tech's veterinary college recently appointed Drs. Kent Scarratt and Jacqueline Pelzer to fill positions within the school.

Manhattan, Kan. -- The one health initiative has a new champion as retired Brig. Gen. Michael B. Cates prepares to join Kansas State University as the director of its master of public health program.

College Park, Md. -- A team of researchers specializing in the study of the Avian Influenza virus, H9N2, at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine say they have developed a universal vaccine for animals that may also help prevent or delay the spread of the virus to humans.