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Investiture for Chair and Professorship: Meet Our Recipients

December 18, 2025 / General News

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College Honors Faculty, Staff with 2025 Excellence Awards

December 03, 2025 / General News

On November 24, the college’s annual Excellence Awards Recognition Program took place in the atrium of the Basic Sciences Building. Faculty and staff were celebrated with a Thanksgiving lunch before awards given to honor the…
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Illinois Team to Lead up to $28M Initiative to Build a Precision Phage Platform for Promoting Public Health

November 18, 2025 / General News

Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will partner with investigators from industrial and academic institutions, including Ginkgo Bioworks, Baylor University, University of Minnesota, Oregon State University, and Oregon Health & Science University, on a…
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With Illinois Degrees, ‘No Limits’ on Opportunity for Success, Says Donor Dr. John Coyne

October 14, 2025 / Alumni News

As a boy growing up on a livestock farm near Pontiac, Illinois, John Anderson Coyne dreamed of becoming a veterinarian. Now, 51 years after earning his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of…
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University of Illinois Answers Your Questions on the Rural Veterinary Shortage

September 29, 2025 / General News

For many years, federal, state, and industry organizations have recognized the dire need for a larger veterinary workforce in rural areas and food animal industries in the United States, and the situation continues to worsen….
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Veterinary Pathology Group Honors Two Vet Med Retired Faculty Members

September 09, 2025 / Comparative Biosciences News

Two professors emeriti from the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, Drs. Wanda Haschek-Hock and Rex Hess, will be honored at the annual meeting of the American College of Veterinary Pathology (ACVP) at the…
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1977 U. of I. Graduate Leaves Her Legacy to Preserve Historic Round Barns

August 25, 2025 / General News

By all accounts, Leah Jane Wightman was a loyal friend and daughter, a dedicated professional, and a very private person. When she passed away on November 18, 2024, at the age of 84, she demonstrated…
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Dr. Igor Canisso (center) received the Theriogenologist of the Year award in 2025 from leaders of the American College of Theriogenologists

Dr. Igor Canisso Honored by the American College of Theriogenologists

August 01, 2025 / General News

Dr. Igor Canisso, associate professor at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, received the 2025 Theriogenologist of the Year award for his exceptional work in equine reproduction. The presentation was made on July…
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Dr. Timothy Fan, a professor of veterinary clinical medicine, consulting a dog owner about their pet in a clinical setting.

How Are Veterinarians Advancing Cancer research in Dogs, People?

July 01, 2025 / General News

People are beginning to realize that dogs share a lot more with humans than just their homes and habits. Some spontaneously occurring cancers in dogs are genetically very similar to those in people and respond…
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Naomi Esquivel Overcomes Obstacles, Creates Opportunities for Others

June 10, 2025 / Alumni News

When Naomi Esquivel was 12, she started an animal rescue group in her Little Village neighborhood in Chicago. She and others rescued strays in their neighborhood, rehabilitated the animals, and found them homes. The children…
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