2011

Congratulations to our 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award winners Dr. Steven M. Niemi (’82 DVM) – Excellence in Teaching and Research, Dr. Norm Rantanen (’67 DVM, ’71 MS) – Excellence in Teaching and Research, Dr. Charles Sedgwick (’57 DVM) – Excellence in Teaching and Research, Dr. Thomas Meyer (’73 MS, ’78 DVM) – Excellence in Practice, Dr. Susan Stover (’74 BS, ’76 DVM) – Excellence in Teaching and Research, Dr. Lance Perryman (’70 DVM, ’75 PhD) – Excellence in Teaching and Research, Dr. Glenn H. Cantor (’93, PhD) – Distinguished Graduate Alumni, and Dr. David Prieur (’71, PhD) – Distinguished Graduate Alumni.

Performing surgery by the light of cell phones would be unthinkable to most people, but that was just part of the experience of an externship to Malaysia for Felicia Lew (’12 DVM), a recent Susan Bradish Travel Grant recipient.

During Lew’s externship, she and the rest of a surgical team were preparing a pet chicken for surgery. Just as they were about to insert a breathing tube, the power went out. Quickly the team had to improvise.

The WSU Veterinary Class of 1961 presented a $1,000 scholarship at their 50th class reunion to Nicholas Paulson (’12 DVM), the first recipient of the Class of ’61 Professionalism Award.

The DVM Class of ’61 established the award to recognize the high degree of professionalism among veterinary students at WSU.

Unlike a lot of high school students, Ross Rowsey, a senior in the School of Molecular Biosciences, and Kathryn Jewett, a graduate student in the Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology (now Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience), knew they wanted to go to graduate school. So when each learned about the accelerated graduate school programs in the college, they knew it would be the right course for them.

Last month the Hollywood movie Contagion showed the fear, devastation, and social chaos caused by a fast-spreading, airborne virus for which there is no cure. While the pandemic in the film is fictional, the newly emerging disease—Nipah virus—is not.

The artist: Debby Alperin, WSU research associate for almost 26 years.

Radiology services has two new portable ultrasound machines thanks to Esaote Europe, maker of the MyLab One ultrasound.  The versatile machines are being used to train veterinary students in small and large animal imagining techniques.  Students can perform imagining on the abdomen, heart, equine and food animal reproductive systems, and equine musculoskeletal systems.

Dr. Katrina Mealey | 2011 – present

A 12-year-old tortoise recently had its left front leg amputated.

The Amazing Class of ‘61 Pays it Forward with a Professionalism Endowment and Scholarship On May 28, 1961 forty-two men and one woman were awarded Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from Washington State University. Graduation was held in Roger’s Field, the football stadium now known as Martin Stadium. Afterward the Veterinarian’s Oath was administered by […]