Cornell's Student Chapter of the Women's Veterinary Leadership Development...
By Donald F. Smith DVM, Cornell UniversityThe four officers of the Cornell Student Chapter of the Women’s Veterinary Leadership Development Initiative (WVLDI) received one of Cornell's most prestigious...
View ArticleThe AAVMC is Turning Fifty
By Donald F. Smith, Cornell UniversityThe AAVMC – Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges – came of age decades ago, but 2016 marks its 50th anniversary and what a celebration it will be!...
View ArticleOregon State Appoints Dr. Susan Tornquist as Dean
By Donald F. Smith, Cornell UniversityOregon State’s College of Veterinary Medicine has had as many deans in its forty-year history as some veterinary colleges that are twice as old. When Dean Cyril...
View ArticleDr. Jane Brunt: Her Formative Years
By Donald F. Smith, Cornell UniversityCo-authors Julie Kumble and Melena HagstromIt was a gutsy move. Jane Brunt, an aspiring veterinarian, decided to move from metropolitan New Jersey to agricultural...
View ArticleWilson Bell '39, Connecting Cornell to Virginia-Tech University
By Donald F. Smith, Cornell UniversityCornell’s veterinary class of 1939 was distinctive. Thirty-six men and three women arrived in Ithaca, New York in the depths of the Depression and would form the...
View ArticleDr. Jane Brunt: The Making of a Feline Veterinarian
By Donald F. Smith, Cornell UniversityWith co-authors Julie Kumble and Melena HagstromCats are aloof, independent, and capable of dealing with pain on their own. These false assumptions still abound,...
View ArticleAre There More Creative Options for Diversifying Academic Leadership?
Donald F. Smith, Cornell UniversityWith Julie KumbleDuring a presentation on Women’s Leadership at the AAVMC meeting last week, we confronted the issue of the slow increase in appointments of women to...
View ArticleTraveling Beau
By Donald F. Smith, Cornell UniversityAs we travel through life, we often segment our journey with reference points: our years growing up, our time at college, our retirement years, or our years with a...
View ArticleTraveling Beau
By Donald F. Smith, Cornell UniversityAs we travel through life, we often segment our journey with reference points: our years growing up, our time at college, our retirement years, or our years with a...
View ArticleDr. Ruby Perry Appointed Tuskegee Dean
Donald F. Smith, Cornell UniversityDr. Ruby Perry has been selected as dean of Tuskegee University's College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health. Her appointment was announced yesterday...
View ArticleVeterinary Education at St. George's University in Grenada, West Indies
Donald F. Smith, Cornell UniversityPosted December 9, 2015Two decades after Charles Modica established a medical school on the island of Grenada, he added a School of Veterinary Medicine to his...
View ArticleVETERINARYLEGACY ADOPTS NEW FORMAT FOR 2016
By Donald F. Smith, DVM, DACVSPosted January 1, 2016The New Year ushers in a new feel for VeterinaryLegacy. Now in its seventh year with readers in over 100 countries, I decided to adopt a theme-based...
View ArticleTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
By Donald F. Smith, DVM, DACVSPosted January 11, 2016.Editors Note: This is the first of six contiguous articles on veterinary medicine at Texas A&M University, in honor of their college’s...
View ArticleVETERINARY DEANS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY (1916-2009)
By Donald F. Smith, DVM, DACVSPosted January 14, 2016Editors Note: This is the second of six contiguous articles on veterinary medicine at Texas A&M University, in honor of the college’s centennial...
View ArticleCELEBRATING MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., DAY AND TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY
By Donald F. Smith, DVM, DACVS Posted January 18, 2015Author’s Comment: Centennial-Year tributes to the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University will...
View ArticleELEANOR GREEN, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY VETERINARY DEAN
By Donald F. Smith, DVM, DACVSPosted January 18, 2016Author’s Note: This is the third of six articles honoring the centennial of Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical...
View ArticleLegendary Tuskegee Veterinarian Dr. Eugene W. Adams Passes
By Donald F. Smith, DVM, DACVSFebruary 21, 2016Dr. Eugene W. Adams of Tuskegee University, one of that school's pioneers and most distinguished faculty, died at his home this morning, February 21,...
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