The ride should be a lot of fun for the entire family and all the proceeds go to very worthy charities.  All donations received from this event will go toward both the Olive K. Britt Endowment which helps provide emergency veterinary care for low-income families at OSU small animal hospital and the Johnson Dental clinic through the Boys & Girls club of Corvallis which provides dental care for children of lower income families in the community.

Cost to register for the ride:

Early registration before 4/14/13: $30 and includes a free T-shirt

After 4/14/13: $35 and T-shirts can be purchased for $5/shirt

For more information on Ride the Heart of the Valley including registration and how to donate to the ride please visit our website  http://groups.oregonstate.edu/scavma/ride-heart-valley

Every year faculty, staff and students in the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine make an impressive showing in the cross-campus competition to raise the most money and food for Linn-Benton Food Share. This year featured a wonderfully creative  cupcake war; a huge silent auction that included some amazing gift packages; a diverse and delicious chili cookoff; and for the first time ever, Jamie Senthirajah’s head raised a significant donation.

Dr. Jana Gordon was a relentless bidder and won the right to shave off Senthirajah’s luxiorious head of hair for a fifty dollar donation to the food drive. The spectacle took place in the Magruder atrium to cheers of support and provided a climatic end to this year’s very successful food drive. CVM’s total haul was 42,105 pounds of food to earn us second place in our category.

Grand totals for the OSU campus were $65,718 from events; payroll contributions totaled an additional $56,630; and 15,702 pounds of food was collected.  All cash donations are converted by the statewide figure of 4 lbs. purchased for $1, bringing the total food poundage collected this year to 513,096.

With additional help from the College of Forestry, 41 donor appointments were scheduled. Between 10:15 and 3:15 we exceeded our original goal of 30 units by collecting 31. Ten volunteers helped with registering donors and in the canteen on the Bloodmobile.  A big thank you to everyone who helped to make this blood drive a smoothly run and very successful event.

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

The free, public event begins at 7 p.m. in the Construction & Engineering Hall of the LaSells Stewart Center on the OSU campus.

Covering a range of topics, ranging from how earthworms make decisions to how birds practice songs in their sleep, Morell will take audience members on an exploration into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals.

Morell’s is the first book of its kind to look at a range of animals – from the smallest insects to the largest mammals – and to ask the question: How has evolution selected for the expression of intelligence and emotion?