Vet Gazette

Last week Dr. Kris Otteman, director of Shelter Medicine and Humane Investigations at the Oregon Humane Society (OHS), was one of six OSU graduates to receive this year’s Alumni Fellow Award from the OSU Alumni Association. Dr. Otteman (Class of 1986) was instrumental in developing a partnership with OSU that provides experiential learning for fourth-year […]

Last week, the OSU Board of Trustees approved the expansion of Magruder Hall and the small animal hospital. The $10 million project will be added to OSU’s $258 million capital plan. Over the past four years, the hospital’s case load has increased 15 percent annually. The proposed project will double the size of the small […]

Dr. Elizabeth Collar, a third year resident in Large Animal Surgery, won first place in the Large Animal Research Category for her presentation of “Third Carpal Bone Fracture is Associated with Focal Subchondral Bone Porosity in Racehorses” at the annual meeting of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) this month. ACVS established the competition […]

By Alex Rowell, Psy.D, Vet Med Wellness Coordinator/CAPS Psychology Resident As the quarter is now fully underway, I am sure there have been times where you have been thinking to yourself, “how I am going to get all of this done?” or “Am I cut out for this?” This internal dialogue has a way of […]

Dr. Sarah Nemanic, assistant professor of radiology, has been working with an OSU team to develop a 3-D ‘virtual reality’ teaching tutorial for veterinary anatomy students (see story). Concurrently, Dr. Nemanic studied the efficacy of the tutorial, and the results of that study were recently published in the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education (Vol.43, No.3). […]

Magruder Hall gets hot and spicy on Saturday, October 29th  at the annual Chili Cookoff for Scholarships. This year students and student clubs are competing for nearly $21,000 in scholarship money. Bring your appetite, taste a variety of traditional and exotic chilis, then vote for your favorites. You can also vote on best theme, as […]