During the week-long training being held this week, students work with practicing veterinarians, many of them WSU alumni, to diagnose and treat cases featuring volunteer clients and stuffed animal patients.
The university has one of the few veterinary programs in the nation with a deep practice management curriculum focused on the financial basics of business and veterinary medicine.
The new Large and Agricultural Animal Ambulatory Service offers preventative and general care for cattle, horses, camelids and other large mammals in a 60‑mile radius around WSU Pullman on weekdays.
A donation of medical supplies from Cougar Health Services is helping veterinary students prepare for their first live-animal surgeries.
The organization is made up of WSU educators who provide advocacy and expertise to engage students in transformative learning experiences. This was the academy’s first induction ceremony since 2020.
A $2 million proposal by Washington State University student Thomas Kile for the purchase, remodel, and expansion of a fictitious veterinary clinic earned first place in a national competition for veterinary students.
Every other Saturday at noon in Seattle, WSU veterinary students and alumni are among those providing dozens of pets and their owners with veterinary care the animals would otherwise go without.
This year, 35 veterinarians returned to Pullman to coach WSU veterinary students at the annual Diagnostic Challenges.
Case-based simulations provide athletic training students with real-world scenarios, such as heated exchanges with coaches or discussions with farmers who have injured themselves at work.
Now in her second year of the Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience’s doctorate program in neuroscience, Kyra Parker is working on identifying neuronal signaling pathways that are involved in neurodevelopment and how exercise can influence the pathways.
