University of Wisconsin Athletics and its multimedia rights holder Learfield’s Badger Sports Properties are pleased to announce that September 8 will mark the 6th Annual “Celebrate Agriculture” game as the Badgers host the New Mexico …
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Ask a UW Veterinarian: Talking Tick Prevention
Posted onTalking Tick Prevention The question below was featured in the Summer 2018 issue of On Call, the magazine for friends of the UW School of Veterinary Medicine. This expert response comes from Juliet Caviness DVM’17, primary care …
2018 New Residents and Interns Join UWVC, SVM
Posted onEach year, the UW School of Veterinary Medicine and UW Veterinary Care welcome a new group of interns and residents — graduate veterinarians who come here to learn from our exceptional specialists while providing top-notch …
One Health: Myers Aids Poultry Vaccination Project in Madagascar Village
Posted onLaurel Myers was still in elementary school when a shipment of goats to her family’s farm in Bridger, Montana, left everyone sick with fever. “So I grew up thinking of the connections between human and …
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 …
Wholly Devoted: Supporting Pets, Empowering People
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 …
Opening the Door to Pet Wellness
Posted onThe Shelter Medicine Program at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) is helping to make pet care more accessible through an innovative initiative that delivers veterinary medical care direct to the doorstep of …
Local High School Students Participate in UW-Madison Paid Internship Program
Posted onThe UW–Madison Small Animal Clinic is filled with dogs, chicks and other cuddly creatures. For the past six weeks, the clinic has also been occupied by seven incoming juniors in the Madison Metropolitan School District. …
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 …
Small Worms Behind Big Diseases: Unraveling Their Secrets
Posted onMore than 1.5 billion people around the world — about one in five — have a parasitic worm living inside them. In domestic animals and wildlife, the distribution is even more widespread. Sit with those …