Within 90 seconds, Adam Bauknecht DVM’09 can neuter a cat. A routine spay takes him ten minutes or less. Bauknecht estimates that he’s so far performed at least 10,000 of these procedures and he has …
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Q&A: Veterinary Medicine Professor Leads Largest Biomedical Coalition
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Hannah Carey, a University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher who studies hibernating mammals, became the new president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology on July 1.
Four UW Faculty Receive 2019 Hilldale Awards to Honor Research, Service
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For Linda Schuler, who has been a professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine since its beginning, the award is more than a recognition of her contribution to research. “It’s incredibly humbling because I work with so many wonderful people and so many dedicated people — so yeah, it’s quite humbling,” Schuler said.
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 …
New Faculty Focus: Jayshree Samanta
Posted onWhat attracted you to UW–Madison and the School of Veterinary Medicine? Samanta: The world-class stem cell and neuroscience research community. What was your first visit to campus like? I was impressed with the collegiality of …
SVM Faculty and Staff Honored for Teaching, Mentoring
Posted onA number of School of Veterinary Medicine faculty and academic staff have been recognized recently with campus-wide awards from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Kim Lord Plummer, a senior lecturer in the Department of Comparative Biosciences …
Preclinical and Clinical Collaborators Shed Light on Preeclampsia
Posted onPreeclampsia is a medical condition that affects pregnant women, raising a mother’s blood pressure and threatening both her life and her baby’s. Accompanying symptoms include water retention and protein in the urine. Rarer, but more …
UW Study on a Possible Link Between Obesity and Cancer
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A special report on research by Lisa Arendt DVM'02, assistant professor at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine, studying how inflammation and obesity contribute to breast cancer risk.
How Hibernators Could Help Humans Treat Illness, Conserve Energy and Get to Mars
Posted onTwo scientists from the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), Hannah Carey and Matthew Regan, were among the researchers who gathered October 27 to discuss the potential for hibernation and the related process, torpor, to …
Cellular Communication System in Mice Helps Control Female Fertility
Posted onWhen Joan Jorgensen was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, her roommate confided that she had just one period before going through menopause in high school. Doctors told Jorgensen’s roommate that she would never …