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Passionate People Move the Profession Forward

Aug 1, 2018 / Message from the Dean

This message will appear in the Fall 2018 issue of the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association Epitome. Have you been advised to “find your passion”? If so, you might want to tweak that advice a little, based on findings from a recent study at Stanford that has generated buzz in the lay press. Researchers found...

The ‘I’ in Illinois Represents Innovation

Jul 6, 2018 / Message from the Dean

This message will appear in the August 2018 issue of the Chicago Veterinary Medical Association Bulletin. Diverse Collaboration Yields Innovation When you’ve got a groundbreaking veterinary curriculum and you want to make it even better, what is the next step? For Illinois, one answer is tapping into a type of expertise that we currently lack....

Familiar Faces Move to New Places

May 15, 2018 / Message from the Dean

This message will appear in the June 2018 issue of the Chicago Veterinary Medical Association Bulletin. Congratulations to these newly appointed leaders The College of Veterinary Medicine at Illinois recently announced several new appointments. Head of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine Dr. Dennis French, who had served as interim department head for the past...

Shelter Medicine Program Posts Win for Students, Society, You

Mar 26, 2018 / Message from the Dean

This message will appear in the April 2018 issue of the Chicago Veterinary Medical Association Bulletin. New program to expand services at nine locations You’ve heard of a win-win situation? The Shelter Medicine Program at Illinois scores a win for so many beneficiaries, we may run out of hyphens. To begin with, there are the...

High-Impact Shelter Medicine Program Adds Community Medicine Component

Feb 27, 2018 / Message from the Dean

This message will appear in the Spring 2018 issue of the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association Epitome. Three-year, $525,000 Grant Enables Expansion There are lots of ways to measure impact. The Illinois shelter medicine program, under the leadership of Dr. G. Robert Weedon, is hitting it out of the park on just about every metric:...

Turning Lions into Feral Cats: Scholarships Tame Veterinary Student Debt

Jan 15, 2018 / Message from the Dean

This message will appear in the February 2018 issue of the Chicago Veterinary Medical Association Bulletin. Scholarships provide relief to veterinary students A beast that threatens far too many colleagues entering our profession today is educational debt. At Illinois, the median debt reported by 2017 graduates was nearly $160,000. That number falls right in line...

What’s New for Illinois Veterinarians in 2018

Jan 2, 2018 / Message from the Dean

This message will appear in the Winter 2018 issue of the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association Epitome. Four Ways You Can Engage in 2018 Happy New Year from all of us at your College of Veterinary Medicine! I’m very excited about what’s ahead for Illinois. As you make plans for 2018, I hope each of...

Thank You for a Productive Year!

Dec 8, 2017 / Message from the Dean

As 2017 comes to a close, I want to thank the entire college community—our faculty and staff, our students and alumni, our referring veterinarians, clients, and friends—for your support. With your help, the college continued to deliver advances in science, transformative education, outstanding clinical care to animals, and responsible stewardship of resources. Your efforts made...

Tap Into the History and Future of Veterinary Expertise

Nov 20, 2017 / Message from the Dean

This message will appear in the December 2017 issue of the Chicago Veterinary Medical Association Bulletin. Illinois faculty are leaders and innovators If you earned your veterinary degree at Illinois at any time in the past four or five decades—and even if you didn’t—you are likely to have benefited from faculty members who were leaders,...

Creating Space for Transformative Learning

Sep 30, 2017 / Message from the Dean

This message will appear in the October 2017 issue of the Chicago Veterinary Medical Association Bulletin. The college is committed to excellence in teaching An elective course for first-year veterinary students on sustainable livestock production illustrates this idea. Using an approach called the “flipped classroom,” Dr. Aldridge and co-instructor Dr. Jim Lowe require students to...

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