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Scholarships

With the General Scholarship Fund, the college helps provide support for students in the DVM program. Across the country, the elevating cost of higher education makes scholarship funds such as this vital to the future of veterinary medicine.

The Production Medicine Scholars Fund supports qualified MSU students who are enrolled as majors in the Department of Animal Science, have excellent academic records, and are pursuing a veterinary career with a commitment to livestock agriculture.

Small Animal

The Companion Animal Fund supports all aspects of improving the health and well-being of companion animals, from research equipment to the training of veterinarians and graduate students.

The Lucky Fund for Needy Animals provides financial assistance to treat animals at the hospital who have a good prognosis for recovery and whose owners have demonstrated need.

Equine

The Equine Rehabilitation Fund for rescued horses provides diagnostic and surgical services to horses rescued through non-profit equine rescues such as CANTER, which rehabilitates and finds homes for retired racehorses.

The Equine Teaching Fund supports the care and treatment of horses admitted to the Large Animal Clinic whose cases will provide a valuable or unique teaching opportunity and whose owner will not pursue treatment without financial assistance.

Large Animal

The Large Animal Clinical Sciences Fund supports all aspects of improving the health and well-being of large animals, from research equipment to the training of veterinarians and graduate students.

Wildlife

The Wildlife Fund supports our Zoo and Wildlife Service, which sees sick and injured wildlife (mostly birds of prey) with a goal to treat animals and release them back to the wild, while teaching veterinary students principles of wildlife care.

Diversity

The Intercultural, Inclusion, and Diversity Initiatives Fund supports student activities and college initiatives that foster our values of diversity in representation and an inclusive environment. These include scholarships, study abroad, and the Vetward Bound Program.

Medical Center

The Veterinary Teaching Hospital Fund supports the hospital with the purchase of new equipment and with teaching funds that assist in educating our students, interns, and residents.

Learn more about the College's funding priorities.

The College depends on private support to advance our mission.

The MSU College of Veterinary Medicine
Office of Development:

development@cvm.msu.edu
Phone: 517-353-4937
Fax: 517-432-2391

Development and Alumni Relations
College of Veterinary Medicine
Michigan State University
784 Wilson Road / Room F130
East Lansing, MI 48824

Also in this Issue:

Toxicologic Pathology Residency Program

An alarm was sounded in the early 2000s that a significant shortage of well-trained, boarded veterniary pathologists was on the horizon. Reports issued by organizations including the National Academy of Sciences, National Institutes of Health, American College of Veterinary Pathologists, and Society of Toxicologic Pathology revealed that universities were not producing enough pathologists, and those that were trained were not developing particular skills required by industry.

Stress, Intestinal Disease, and the Gut

A greater understanding of how stress adversely impacts our GI systems will have a number of clinically relevant applications for human and animal health and will be important to the therapeutic management of major debilitating GI diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome, enteric infections, and food allergies.

Best in Food Safety

There are no students mingling or pouring over books in the basement of the MSU Food Safety and Toxicology building, which is where the Online Master of Science in Food Safety Program is housed. Students of the program, many of them leaders in their fields, have developed their knowledge and expertise from desks in 23 countries and 42 US states.

Avian influenza: DCPAH and preparedness

The MSU College of Veterinary Medicine's Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health is a member of the USDA’s National Animal Health Laboratory Network, which was created as a part of the US emergency preparedness and response system. In a disease event such as the current Avian Influenze outbreak, these laboratories —including DCPAH—play a critical role.

Summer Food Systems Fellowship

To help meet the need for well-trained professionals that work to keep our food safe, the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine established the Summer Food Systems Fellowship Program in 2006. The program is national in scope and includes public policy and animal health. It also includes public health, agribusiness, pharmaceutical medicine, and regulatory veterinary medicine.

Society of Toxicology: MSU leadership continues

Michigan State University has a long history of leadership with the SOT, and that leadership continues with the recent election of Dr.Patricia Ganey as vice president-elect of the society. The society's approximately 7,500 members represent the broad spectrum of sciences that toxicology

encompasses.

A fly-in to public policy

Since its founding more than 100 years ago, the College of Veterinary Medicine at MSU has seen great leadership and bright and dedicated faculty. Among those exceptional leaders and educators is Dr. Robert Schirmer, Sr. His contributions helped shape generations of veterinarians as well as the development of specialty fields.

Dr. Robert Schirmer, Sr.: A lasting influence

In Memoriam

Leon V. Jones, Murray H. Sherber, Guy Russell Clugston, Allan A. Marks, Robert L. Byram, Robert G. Schirmer, Sr. , Arthur E. Hall, Arthur A. Jarvis, Thomas Allan Miller, John A. Blair, Ann Mccoy Beck, James D. Mckean