August 2014

Study: Program greatly reduced shelter cat impoundments in target area.

Veterinarians and students gain knowledge for reducing homeless cat populations How many animals’ lives can you change in a week? For the students in UF’s Community Cat Management course, the answer was an amazing 544. Community Cat Management is a unique immersive training experience offered by Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program…

Graduate student receives  award from National Science Foundation Candice Lavelle in the aquatic toxicology facility of the Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology. (Photo courtesy of Candice…

UF veterinary staffers helped release an American bald eagle back into the wild on July 16.

In the news A story about Dr. Tom Vickroy’s appointment as the college’s new executive associate dean appeared online on sites including the Gainesville Sun,  Bovine Veterinarian, EquiSearch, Newswise (UF-IFAS), as well as in the Palm Beach Times, the Tallahassee Times and elsewhere. Dr. Sarah Boston was…

Veterinary graduate student receives training grant Dr. Shannon Roff Dr. Shannon Roff,  a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, has received a TL1 predoctoral training grant from the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She is the college’s first…

Several high-schoolers who participated in the recent 4-H Congress listened and learned at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine.

Several UF CVM graduate students received degrees at UF summer commencement exercises.

Around the College…

Levy named to national organization Dr. Julie Levy 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…