UF veterinary students raise thousands to benefit a program that helps shelter animals receive needed treatment and surgery.

Alpha Psi fraternity helps family build home During final exams in May, the members of Alpha Psi Veterinary Fraternity volunteered with Habitat for Humanity to work on the house that the Profit family will soon call home. “During our day, we found out that Mr. Profit actually helped with the renovations to the vet school,” […]

Around the College

Students participating in FAMU’s Ag Discovery program took part in several learning opportunities while visiting the college.

Renovations signal facilities advancement We’re dusting out the old, plastering in the new at the college these days. The constant sound of drills and table saws, and the sight of workers hauling materials back and forth around the Veterinary Academic Building and within the UF Veterinary Hospitals will soon be replaced by quiet, functional spaces […]

RDVM Day offers full day of free education to practitioners   A record number of practitioners — 326 — from throughout the state participated in Referring Veterinarian Appreciation Day, held at the college on June 21. For additional photos of the event on Facebook, visit the album on the college page here.  

Conway named to board post Dr.  Julia Conway, a clinical assistant professor in the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, has been elected to the seven-member executive board of the International Society of Veterinary Dermatopathology as a member-at-large. A board certified anatomic pathologist with a strong interest in comparative dermatopathology, she currently leads the […]

In the news A story about UF researchers discovering a new pox virus in sea otters appeared in MicrobeWorld.org, in Phys.org and in eWallstreeter, in the Global Dispatch, in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, in AVMA’s SmartBrief, Wildlife Society News and other outlets. It was picked up ProMED, a program of the […]

Levy named to national organization Dr. Julie Levy, Maddie’s Professor of Shelter Medicine at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named a distinguished fellow of the National Academies of Practice. Levy, an ’89 graduate of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California-Davis, was recognized for her work with animal shelters, […]