Congratulations to our 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award winners Dr. Robert B. Wilson (’61 DVM) – Excellence in Teaching and Research, Dr. Roger A. Renne (’66 DVM) – Excellence in Teaching and Research, and Dr. Gary L. Cook (’71 DVM) – Excellence in Practice.
Traveling by bicycle, community interviewers visit homes in Asembo, Kenya, to learn how animal and human disease impacts a family’s health, access to education, and economic well-being. They will visit more than 1,400 households four times each year over several years to ask about their nutrition, family members’ health, household assets, and health of their animals. They collect the data on a handheld computer, or PDA, so that it can be sent back to Pullman the next day for analysis.
The goal is to reduce poverty and hunger and improve health and education.
After giving a test to third-year DVM students in her small animal medicine class, associate professor Lynne Nelson made a startling discovery.
At 8:00 a.m. people in an East African village have already begun to line up with their dogs. Mostly it is young boys with their pets coming to one of the many free rabies vaccination clinics set up around the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania. “There can be 200 people in line at a […]
Washington State Magazine, Summer 2013 | Jaak Panksepp set out to find the biology of emotions. He found the biology of animal consciousness.
Roya Eshragh and Gyan Harwood of Vancouver, British Columbia, wanted a cat. So they did what many animal lovers do; they went to their local shelter to adopt an older animal in need of a home. They fell in love with an orange tabby and named him “Chester” (he had previously been called “Cheetoh,” but they thought he looked more like a “Chester”). On January 30, 2012—Chester’s adoption day—his life changed forever.
A gesture that is seemingly small can have a great impact.
After Jill Strickler’s beloved blond cocker spaniel, “Jessie,” passed away in 2009, Jill wanted to repay the kindness they received at WSU.
Students participate in simulated cases (based on real cases) to enhance communication skills with clients.
On a Sunday morning in October 2012, Tara Johnson and her husband heard their dog “Juno,” a 4-year-old Husky, whimpering several yards from their house. They ran to find her lying on the ground not moving. Although they couldn’t see any bite marks through her fur, they did see saliva on her neck.
“That would be typical of a wolf attack,” said Johnson. “We’d had several wolf sightings near our house a few months before she was injured.”
