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Dec 13, 2013

NC State College of Veterinary Medicine Awards Scholarship Honoring Sandy Hook Student

The North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine has awarded the Charlotte Bacon Veterinary Education Scholarship to Ashley Myers and Crystal Martinez in recognition of their service to children in an educational or community setting. Scholarship report on WRAL. Myers, a third year veterinary student, worked with New Hanover County Animal Control to develop a…
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Dec 9, 2013

Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program at NC State Includes a Regenerative Medicine Component

The ability to regenerate human cells, tissues, and organs was once considered a futuristic possibility but today regenerative medicine is a fast growing medical specialty and the focus of one of the investigative cores at North Carolina State University’s Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research. Seven years ago the then new field was described…

Dec 4, 2013

What’s Anatomy Got to Do with It?

Anatomy is the study of the body and its parts. In the first semester of veterinary school we study dog and cat anatomy. I knew it would be intense, but as a pre-vet I did not fully understand the workload involved in learning anatomy nor did I appreciate the importance of gaining that knowledge. The…

Dec 2, 2013

NC State University Small Animal Emergency Service Available 24/7 to Ensure Holiday Pet Health

According to scientists, a person has some five million scent receptors, which sounds like a lot until you realize that a bloodhound has 300 million receptors. Depending on the breed, a dog’s sense of smell is some 1,000 to 10,000,000 (our bloodhound) times more sensitive than its owner’s. There’s more. A dog’s brain is about…

Nov 19, 2013

NC State College of Veterinary Medicine Researcher Examines Food Safety Risks at Diversified Farms

Sid Thakur, associate professor of swine health and production medicine at NC State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, is the recipient of $274,693 grant from the Center for Produce Safety to study the contamination of fresh produce from pathogens related to food animals. The two-year grant, “Food Safety Risks at the Fresh Produce-Animal Interface: Identifying…

Nov 18, 2013

Arnold Brody Participates in Signing for Re-released Book

What are science’s greatest discoveries? Arnold Brody, an adjunct professor of molecular biomedical sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and co-author David Eliot Brody, a lawyer, wrote about the science that changed the world in their 1997 book “The Science Class You Wish You Had: The Seven Greatest Scientific Discoveries in History and the…
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Nov 14, 2013

Nutrition Service at NC State’s Veterinary Health and Wellness Center Ensures Proper Pet Diet

Specialists with the Nutrition Service at NC State University’s Veterinary Health and Wellness Center provide nutritional recommendations and feeding plans for the medical and surgical services at the Veterinary Health Complex, offer owners diet and nutrition support for their animals, and conduct research that informs both animal and human health. The Nutrition Service works closely…

Nov 6, 2013

NC State University Comparative Pain Research Lab Studies Role of Pain in Chronic Mobility Issues

Researchers in the Comparative Pain Research Laboratory at NC State University’s Veterinary Health Complex are seeking participants for a clinical trial that seeks to measure pain levels in dogs. Eligible dogs are two or older, weigh at least 33 pounds, and exhibit lameness in hind limbs, stiffness in the hips and/ or stifle joint, or…
first year vet student

Nov 4, 2013

The Unusual Resume of a First-Year Vet Student

“You haven’t worked in a clinic! What did you do before now?” a classmate asked me. I mumbled my way through an answer that skimmed the surface. You see, it’s rare to find a veterinary student today with such a hole in their resume as mine. My lack of clinical background makes me quite anxious…

Nov 4, 2013

Researcher Recipient of NC State Libraries Faculty Award

Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf, research professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences in the NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine, is the 2013 recipient of the NCSU Libraries Faculty Award. The annual award, established in commemoration of the library’s centennial year in 1989, enables the library to recognize the NC State faculty member “who has contributed…