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Fourth-year veterinary student Clint Bradbeer says he has benefited greatly from the business focus offered in WSU’s veterinary curriculum.

From Vancouver, Washington, Maggie Munoz recently graduated from WSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry. While she has wrapped up her undergraduate studies, she plans on staying on campus to continue her research on Lyme disease and relapsing fever in the lab of Dr. Troy Bankhead before pursuing a doctorate in molecular biology.

Graduate student Charles Ugwu is leading research to identify strategies that can limit the ability of a common type of pathogenic bacteria to utilize the metabolic requirements critical for its proliferation.

Second-year student Anna Decan is one of 10 in her class who completed her first year at Montana State University through WSU’s regional program in veterinary medicine.

Jordan Woodbury, a Grants, New Mexico, native in her fourth and final year of WSU’s veterinary program, will return to New Mexico after graduation to work at a mixed animal practice.

The American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges has selected WSU professor and veterinarian Dr. Rance Sellon as the recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Award.

Kaylie Richards has aspirations of medical school after she graduates this spring from WSU. From Pacifica, California, about 20 minutes south of San Francisco, Kaylie is majoring in neuroscience, pre-medicine track, and minoring in biology.

The life-long learning that comes with being a veterinarian is a motivator, but ultimately, Carolyn Fisher pursued veterinary medicine to preserve the human-animal bond by improving the well-being of animals and helping people.

Mikayla Perkins has been helping to care for the most critical of patients since May of 2022 at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital as a veterinary technician assistant in the Small Animal Intensive Care Unit.

Once Cody Yeik earns his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Washington State University, he will head back home to Bremerton, Washington, to work alongside one of his lifelong teachers – his dad – at Alder Trail Animal Hospital. “The human-animal bond is very important and crucial to many of us,” Cody said. “Working as a […]