In 2019 the UW School of Veterinary Medicine Alumni Advisory Board launched an alumni awards program to recognize graduates who have made significant contributions to society and whose accomplishments, affiliations, and careers have honored the …
Awards and Honors
Growth Continues for Veterinary Clinic Supporting Homeless and Low-income Pet Owners
Posted onFor so many of us, a home isn’t a home without the love of a pet. So to be asked to sacrifice one for the other — keep your housing but lose your pet, or keep …
Wisconsin Veterinarian Wins 2019 Honorary Klussendorf Award
Posted on Wisconsin State Farmer
Dr. Sheila McGuirk of Madison, Wis., was named the 17th winner of the Honorary Klussendorf Award, the highest recognition given to a dairy cattle showman in the United States, during the 53rd World Dairy Expo. From the moment she interviewed for the then soon-to-opened University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, this veterinarian embraced her new community and its grand cow show at World Dairy Expo. Throughout the process, McGuirk helped transform dairy cattle health care.
Summer Scholars Present Research, Alumna Awarded at National Veterinary Symposium
Posted onThe UW School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) was well represented at the 2019 National Veterinary Scholars Symposium in Worcester, Massachusetts in July. Twenty-two doctor of veterinary medicine (DVM) students from UW participated in the symposium …
Veterinarians, Physicians to Jointly Explore Links Between Animal and Human Health
Posted onA physician, a veterinarian and a PhD researcher walk into a conference. At the event’s conclusion, the medical doctor says: “I had no idea there were veterinary cardiologists like there are human cardiologists.” This interaction …
Schuler Receives 2019 Hilldale Award
Posted onLinda Schuler, a professor of comparative biosciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), is among this year’s winners of a Hilldale Award. The Secretary of the Faculty annually recognizes four professors …
After Winning Online Vote, Researchers to Assemble German Shepherd Genome
Posted onThe UW–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine tapped its resourcefulness and humor to get a grant in an unusual way: by winning an online vote among six finalists. VetMed’s Comparative Genetics Research Laboratory will use the …
UW SVM Student Leaders Earn VOICE National Chapter of the Year Award
Posted onThe UW School of Veterinary Medicine chapter of Veterinarians as One Inclusive Community for Empowerment (VOICE) has been selected to receive the VOICE National Chapter of the Year Award for 2018-19. This award honors a …
Batker DVM’95 Named WVMA Veterinarian of the Year
Posted onThe Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association (WVMA) named Judith Batker DVM’95 the 2018 WVMA Veterinarian of the Year during its 103rd annual convention in October. A 1995 graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, …
Fund Supports 18 New Studies to Enhance Companion Animal Health
Posted onThanks to grants from the school’s Companion Animal Fund, faculty and residents at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) will launch 18 new research projects aimed at improving animal health care. Over $171,000 …