Veterinary students rarely spend their entire summer lying on a beach. Many first- and second-year students work in a practice or volunteer in animal welfare projects. Third- and fourth-year students are involved in preceptorships and OSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital rounds. This summer sixteen students worked on research with faculty mentors from the Department of Biomedical […]
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Student Research Yields Useful Results
Friday, September 25th, 2015Scientists At OSU Want To Find Out What Makes Benny Tick
Friday, September 25th, 2015Filbert — a beaver in residence at the Oregon Zoo — gave a little extra blood at his yearly physical exam. That blood will help scientists at Oregon State University sequence the genome of the North American beaver. “Beavers are important to the ecology of the region, and understanding their genome is an important part […]
Celebration of New Endowed Professor
Friday, September 25th, 2015Students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the College of Veterinary Medicine are invited to help celebrate Dr. Susanne Stieger-Vanegas’ award of the Camden Endowed Professorship in Diagnostic Imaging. Join Dean Tornquist in the Magruder lobby on Friday, October 23rd, 2015 at 3 pm for a dessert bar and ‘mocktails’ and help thank Rebecca Camden (and […]
Sporadic, Unaccountable Bruising Diagnosed As Auto-Immune Disorder
Friday, July 17th, 2015Max is a twelve-pound bundle of white fluff. He shares a house with his owner Kathy Sisson, her daughter and grandson, two human friends, two rabbits, one mouse, one guinea pig, two dogs, and three cats. Needless to say, he gets along with all kinds of people and animals. “He is a happy-go-lucky little guy,” […]
Llamas Are The Life Of The Party At Wild View Acre
Friday, July 17th, 2015If you chat with a random selection of people who work at the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine, you will find that most of them like animals – not a big surprise. Even the staff who don’t work with animals – accountants, clerical support, lab technicians, etc. – often own one or two pets. Then […]
New Test Developed for Carcinogenic PAH
Thursday, July 9th, 2015Vet Med Associate Professor Christiane Lohr, and a team of researchers from the OSU Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, have developed a faster, more accurate method to assess cancer risk from exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs are molecules found in fossil fuels and are produced when insufficient oxygen or other factors result […]
