The CVM Ag Animal Club invites you to a lunchtime talk on “Incorporating Small Ruminants into your Mixed Animal Practice” given by Dr. Annika Rogers (Class of ’08). The presentation will be held in Magruder 102 on Tuesday, March 5th, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Pizza will be served so RSVP by Sunday, March 3rd: vixvat98@gmail.com

Nothing tastes better than a hot bowl of chili on a crisp fall day at an OSU football game!

That is especially true when you chow down at a chili cookoff where 100% of the proceeds go to support OSU College of Vet Med scholarships . . .  and it’s Homecoming!

Make a note to stop by Magruder Hall two hours before Kickoff on Saturday, October 20^th for CVM’s first annual Chili Cookoff sponsored by SCAVMA.  A suggested $5 donation will allow you to taste a variety of delicious chilis and vote for your favorite. Plus you will get a yummy bowl of Willamette Valley Animal Hospital’s chili with all the fixin’s!  Additional voting tickets can be purchased so chefs may encourage friends and families to come hungry and vote often!

Student chefs will compete as individuals for a $500 scholarship and as clubs for a $250 contribution.

In a separate section, non-student competitors (CVM staff, faculty, and alumni) will compete for bragging rights and a CVM prize package.

If you have a smokin’ chili recipe and want to compete, contact aarika.guerrero@oregonstate.edu (students) or lyn.smith-gloria@oregonstate.edu (non-students). CVM will set up the tables and provide drinks, condiments, and utensils — you bring a crockpot of your best chili!

Go Beavs (but don’t go hungry)!

As senior veterinarian at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, OSU alum Ryan De Voe (Class of ’99) cares for lots of different animals. But a recent case of cataracts in a beloved elephant whose vision was failing catapulted De Voe into a new frontier in veterinary medicine: contact lenses for animals.

With cataracts in both eyes, C’sar, a 38-year-old African bull elephant, was unhappily bumping into everything and giving up on life. Although cataract surgery improved his vision and gave him renewed energy, it left C’sar farsighted. That’s where the contact lenses came in. Read more.

While working on her internship at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital, OSU alum Jocelyn Riehl met a fellow beaver who was brought into the clinic by Fish & Wildlife.

Riehl will soon be working in a small animal practice in Baltimore following the completion of her internship. Not too many beavers wandering around that part of the country!

The USDA is offering one slot in its loan repayment program for an Oregon veterinarian. Eligible veterinarians are those working in food animal medicine in Lake or Klamath counties. Applications are due June 15th, 2012. For details on eligibility and the application process, visit the National Institute of Food and Agriculture website.