Christina Geldert, a first-year student in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program, serves as the club’s vice president. She is also the president and founder of the Honey Bee Veterinary Medicine Club at CSU, the first club of its kind at a veterinary school in the United States.
For veterinarians and technicians who are just starting to use pain scales, Dr. Petty recommends using the Colorado State University acute pain scales.
Tests at Colorado State University’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the USDA National Animal Disease Center confirmed both elk had hoof disease.
By Katarzyna Nowak, Safina Center Fellow: Liz Langer and I were at CSU to present a poster about the database at the 2nd Women in Science Symposium. The day started optimistically with the stage filling with elementary school girls expressing why they’re excited about science.
“I thought, if the drug is being safely used in pediatrics, why not dogs? If we can separate out the psychoactive and nonpsychoactive forms of cannabinoids, we can make it safe,” recalls Stephanie McGrath, DVM, an assistant professor of neurology and neurosurgery at Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
Alex Byas, who is also a veterinarian and a PhD student at CSU studying West Nile virus, opens a lab fridge to reveal a Ziploc bag full of vials of ticks. They look dead, but they aren’t. She needs them alive to keep the potential viruses inside them fresh.
This year, more than 20 students from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences won awards at the annual Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity event.