Santa agrees that they have been very good dogs this year! 🎅🐶🐕💯

We are so excited for this gift's transformational impact on Virginia Tech, Roanoke, and the study of health!

Good luck to our students on exams, and a big thank you to the Virginia Veterinary Medical Association (VVMA) for encouraging them with some sweet treats! ☕️🍫🤗

We congratulate Dr. Pleasant, the C.R. Roberts Professor of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, on this distinguished recognition of his teaching and research excellence! 👏

Tours, donkey rides, and the HokieBird - what a fun event to celebrate the health of our equine patients and the generosity of Suzanne and Glenn Youngkin! 🤗🐴🎉 #virginiatech #thankful

An exciting development for our Leesburg campus and for equine athletes up and down the east coast - we are grateful to Suzanne and Glenn Youngkin!

We are excited to announce the launch of our first undergraduate program! With major and minor options in public health, current and incoming undergraduate students at Virginia Tech will have the flexibility to complete coursework that brings a health focus to their multidisciplinary career interests. 🌎💉⚕️🎉

If you’re traveling on Duck Pond Drive near Virginia Tech’s new roundabout, you’ll notice a new friend baying his greeting from the veterinary college grove. Welcome, Shilo, a generous gift from Dr. Mark and Mendy Helfat! 🐾🌳🎉

A truly historic and exciting day for Virginia Tech!

Our gratitude goes out to all who have served our country, regardless of species. Happy #VeteransDay and thank you for your service! 🇺🇲️

(Photo credit goes to the @DeptofDefense)

Michelle Theus, our own associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, will study the role of glial-stem cell interactions in post-traumatic epilepsy across various types of head traumas. 👇

Master of Public Health student, Travis Oishi, shifted his lens from infectious disease research to environmental health response in the wake of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcanic 🌋eruption. He played a key role in ensuring the health of the local community. 👏

Trick or treat...
I'm so sweet...
Please don't give me chocolate to eat!

Happy Halloween from therapy dog Moose and all of us at VA-MD Vet Med! 🎃👻🕸️
https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2018/10/unirel-petsandhalloween.html

Congratulations!

As you prepare for your 🕸️🎃 festivities on Wednesday, please remember your pets.

Learn more about keeping them safe this Halloween👇

This semester, veterinary students are using a new virtual reality tool developed at Virginia Tech to learn canine anatomy thanks to a collaboration between the college, Virginia Tech School of Visual Arts and Virginia Tech Libraries.
Learn more 👇

“Think of them as a genetic insurance policy, preserving diversity so it doesn’t disappear…For some species, like cattle and horses, the wild ancestor is extinct; we should save every descendant we can.” - D. Phillip Sponenberg, professor of pathology and genetics, livestock geneticist, and researcher and advisor to the The Livestock Conservancy. 👇👇

Happy National Veterinary Technician Week, National Pharmacy Tech Day and International Central Services Week! We send our gratitude to all veterinary technicians, pharmacy technicians and central service professionals, and special thanks to those who work in our Veterinary Teaching Hospital and academic program in Blacksburg and our Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg. We honor your service, excellence and dedication to our patients, clients and students! Thank you! 🎉

Our own D. Phillip Sponenberg, professor of pathology and genetics, has aided in the genetic conservation of Choctaw horses. Six new foals are the first new blood in a century for a line of horses brought to America by Spanish conquistadors and bred by Choctaw Indians. They were thought to be long gone from the US Southeast until a surprise discovery.
Learn more 👇

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Andrea Bertke, assistant professor of infectious diseases, $1.7 million to study the neuron-specific regulation of herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2. The virus affects more than 250 million people in the U.S. alone. Congratulations to Dr. Bertke and her project team! 👏👏

We've loved catching up with the DVM class of '98 at our pre-game tailgate! Go Hokies 🦃🏈

To view more photos, check out the Flickr gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/va-md-vetmed/sets/72157702066118834

We are proud to share that alumnus David Schabdach (DVM ’85) has been named the new Virginia Tech associate vice president for research and innovation. In his role, which he begins on Jan. 7, he will serve as the attending veterinarian and direct the university program for laboratory animal resources in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. Congratulations, Dr. Schabdach! #vmcvmalumni 🎉🎉

We are grateful to the practicing veterinarians who participated in the annual Mentor Day, which was held at the college last week and was organized by the Virginia Veterinary Medical Association (VVMA). These veterinarian mentors, the majority of whom are alums, took time out of their busy schedules to provide valuable knowledge and career guidance to our DVM students. Many thanks to the VVMA and all who participated!👊😃

Imagine a world where doctors could prescribe targeted probiotics to pregnant women as a way to prevent autism.

This summer, twelve first- and second-year veterinary students from colleges across the country participated in the college's Summer Veterinary Student Research Program where they researched how to combat human and animal diseases and disorders, such as autism. Learn more 👇