VIN News: How some veterinary students avoid borrowing for school
Marine veteran Bryan Moulton, in his fourth year at Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine, is among those who anticipate graduating without student debt.
Marine veteran Bryan Moulton, in his fourth year at Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine, is among those who anticipate graduating without student debt.
“I studied at Colorado State University. While there, I met people who were interested in organized veterinary medicine. I was mentored by some incredible people who were progressive, not only in what veterinary medicine should, be but also in what horse racing should be."
At the height of his career, Comanche suffered a ruptured tendon in his hind leg. There were several uncertainties after his surgery, but with the help of his surgical team at Colorado State University (CSU) Veterinary Teaching Hospital and a year of being nursed back to health, Comanche is at the top of his game competing this season.
As a veterinary microbiologist at Colorado State University, Anna Fagre is used to studying viruses in animals. But over the last six months, Fagre and scientists like her have been consumed by the opposite problem: stopping humans from passing a deadly virus on to animals.
Before coming to NC State, Lunn headed Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Clinical Sciences and served as a faculty member, associate dean and hospital director at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A team of scientists in the US have trained ferrets to use their keen sense of smell to detect bird flu virus in samples of duck poo.
Getting into veterinary school is a highly competitive goal. This year 200 students applied to this 14 slot program. This collaborative program is able to makes the prospect less daunting for Alaskans by joining forces with another university.
"A human will know to stop after one gummy bear, but a dog will eat as much as they can, and then they come in with a range of systems from mildly impaired to unconscious and barely able to breathe. For the most part, they recover pretty well." -Dr. Tim Hackett
Dr. Ashley Cameron, a surgery resident, is the winner of the Boucher Award, which honors a house officer at New Bolton Center for excellent teaching. She graduated from CSU in 2016, and completed an internship at Equine Medical Center of Ocala, followed by a large animal clinical fellowship at Oregon State University.
The endowment, given by a donor who wishes to remain anonymous, will be split evenly between two faculty positions: an interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery chair and an orthopedic medicine and mobility chair.