![[Past-president, president, and president elect of SAVMA]](https://vetmed.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/holland-savma-pres1-260x157.jpg)
At the annual symposium of the Student American Veterinary Medical Association (SAVMA), held this year in Minneapolis, Minn., second-year veterinary student Matt Holland from the University of Illinois was chosen as president-elect. He will take office as president in 2016. Holland is currently enrolled in the joint DVM-MPH degree program at Illinois. “One of the...
![[two events for Wildlife Medical Clinic on April 4]](https://vetmed.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BabyShower20151-260x157.jpg)
On Saturday, April 4, local wildlife fans will have two opportunities to learn more about and support the University of Illinois Wildlife Medical Clinic, a non-profit organization that provides care for 1,500 ill or injured animals every year. The annual Wildlife Baby Shower, a free event to be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at...
![[Proud to announce new college, new medicine]](https://vetmed.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/college_of-medicine1-260x157.jpg)
Partners in a first-of-its-kind medical college on the University of Illinois’s Urbana-Champaign campus are advancing to the next phase of development, having completed a key administrative step. The University of Illinois Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Thursday, March 12, to establish the nation’s first college of medicine focused, from the beginning, on the intersection...
Register today for a mini-symposium that will address contemporary issues related to harmful cyanobacterial algal blooms and their impacts on human, animal, and environmental health. The symposium will begin with four speakers, followed by a panel discussion featuring additional experts in the field, and concluding with a roundtable discussion focused on identifying research directions as...
![[Therese Eggett and Lucienne Burrus]](https://vetmed.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/VDLpipetterecycle1-260x157.jpg)
“In a typical week our unit disposes of 12 pounds of clean plastics,” noted Lucienne Burrus, a research technician in the Molecular Section of the college’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, in a proposal she and her colleague Therese Eggett submitted to the campus Student Sustainability Committee. But this year, with the $4,040 Sustain Award their proposal...
![[mobile surgery unit]](https://vetmed.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/sm-unit11-260x157.jpg)
In January 2015, the college’s shelter medicine program hit the road in style with a new mobile surgical unit funded through a grant from PetSmart Charities. The $323,000 grant, received on October 23, 2013, also covers expenses for supplies and funds an intern veterinarian and a veterinary technician. In the first year with this funding,...
![[Dr. Joseph Dorner ]](https://vetmed.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Dorner1-260x157.jpg)
Dr. Joseph L. Dorner, a faculty member and administrator at the college for more than 25 years, died Friday, Dec. 19, 2014. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1958, Dr. Dorner obtained four degrees from the University of Illinois: a BS in 1962, a DVM in 1964, a MS in 1965, and...
Problem-solving skills needed in sustainable food production take center stage in a massive, open online course (MOOC) offered by two faculty members in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, Drs. Brian Aldridge and Jim Lowe, starting January 26. The six-week course covers questions such as “How does livestock disease impact the affordability and sustainability of food...
Dr. Sarah Allison, from the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named one of the first two professors who will serve in the Public Policy Faculty Fellows Program newly created by the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC). Dr. Allison, along with Suzie J. Kovacs from the Western University of Health...
Dr. Karen Campbell, head of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, was named 2014 Alumna of the Year at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine in September. The award, which was presented by the dean of the Missouri college, Dean Neil C. Olson, recognizes outstanding professional and personal achievements and contributions to the enhancement...