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VMCVM Alumni Spotlight: Maureen Noftsinger , articleMeet Maureen Noftsinger DVM '01, medical director for Emergency Veterinary and Specialty Services, located at Roanoke. Noftsinger fondly recalls the post-exam taligates and Thursday night study sessions while watching "ER" while she was at VMCVM. She is passionate about animals but also about helping people, often hosting students in the clinic ranging from elementary school to veterinary school. Noftsinger has a farm with 23 goats, 5 sheep, 15 chickens, 5 dogs, and a cat.
Date: Jul 16, 2026 - -
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Veterinary college's new student services director knows what it means to feel lost on campus , articleEdward Raimundi arrived at college as a first-generation student with no one to show him the ropes. Now he's the veterinary college's new director of student services, here to be the guide he never had for some of the hardest-won seats in higher education.
Date: Jun 29, 2026 - -
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VMCVM Alumni Spotlight: Estelle Ward , articleMeet Estelle Ward DVM '88, owner and medical director of West Friendship Animal Hospital in Maryland. Estelle says that "mentorship is one of the greatest joys of the profession" and that small animal veterinary medicine is a people business, first and foremost. Estelle's 20 critters at Starward Farm include seven tarantulas, three snakes and a gecko. She also has a cat named after Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam.
Date: Jun 25, 2026 - -
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‘Big personality’ horse wins many fans in nine-month stay at Veterinary Teaching Hospital , articleGlinda, an 18-year-old Lipizzaner, underwent a slow and multifaceted healing process for laminitis, a painful hoof condition, and the metabolic disease that caused it.
Date: Jun 23, 2026 - -
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One year later, Peanut is back to being a goat again , articleMost animals born with a complete cleft palate never make it to surgery. A goat named Peanut did through the expertise of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
Date: Jun 16, 2026 - -
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VMCVM Student Spotlight: DeAndrea Gray , articleMeet DeAndrea Gray, Class of 2028 student on the small animal track. Gray hails from Minnesota and began her path to veterinary college on a field trip to a petting zoo in kindergarten. She already has a master's degree in agriculture and environmental systems with a thesis on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in cattle using essential oils. She has studied traditional Chinese veterinary medicine and exotic animals as she discovers how diverse the veterinary field really is.
Date: Jun 05, 2026 - -
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Roger Ramirez-Barrios told the Class of 2026 they were like parasites. It was a compliment. , articleRoger Ramirez-Barrios walked to the commencement podium holding a secret. The poster tucked under his arm was about to make the Class of 2026 laugh out loud.
Date: May 29, 2026 - -
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Veterinary graduates create what they hope will become a pet-sized commencement tradition , articleIn the days before commencement, graduating students lined up in their regalia with their pets dressed to match for a studio portrait session.
Date: May 29, 2026 - -
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Ivermectin could help beat malaria, veterinary college researcher finds in running the numbers , articleIvermectin has been used in veterinary medicine for decades. Cassidy Rist has produced the first real-world economic analysis showing it could be a cost-effective tool against malaria — if the funding holds.
Date: May 21, 2026 - -
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VMCVM Alumni Spotlight: Stacey Cordivano , articleMeet Stacey (Ward) Cordivano DVM '08, founder of Clay Creek Equine Veterinary Services in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Passionate about helping to create a more sustainable career path for other equine veterinarians, Stacey says she is lucky to have had so many mentors to impart wisdom and inspiration, and she encourages students to get as many experiences as possible because any of them could lead to an amazing path.
Date: May 12, 2026 - -
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A donkey, a ride in a Honda Pilot, and the veterinary team that saved her life , articleWhen a 7-month-old miniature donkey named Dolly was found hypothermic and unresponsive, her owner drove nearly two hours to the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine for lifesaving treatment that took weeks to complete.
Date: May 08, 2026 - -
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Veterinary college alum honoree Tierra Price does not choose the quiet life , articleTierra Price, a 2020 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Master of Public Health graduate, owns and directs Unleashed Veterinary Care in Louisville and has received the 2026 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.
Date: May 04, 2026 - -
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VMCVM Student Spotlight: Alison Lynch , articleMeet Alison Lynch, Class of 2026 DVM student on the small animal track, from Rockville, Maryland. As class president, Alison says she sees veterinary medicine as a people profession, "showing up for clients during the best and worst days of their lives." A former Irish dance champion, Alison wants to visit Australia —she has been inspired by the Irwin family's impact on wildlife conservation, and has named her cat Bindi in honor of Steve Irwin's daughter.
Date: May 01, 2026 - -
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Jessica Walters never expected to love the lab — now she runs all four of them , articleJessica Walters, a 2016 DVM graduate who now oversees all four of Virginia’s veterinary diagnostic laboratories, is the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.
Date: Apr 28, 2026 - -
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Class of 2026: Mia Damiano named veterinary college valedictorian , articleDamiano and her lucky baseball are headed to Phoenix, Arizona, for a one-year mentorship program that rotates between general practice, emergency, and shelter medicine.
Date: Apr 27, 2026 - -
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New position aims to close the gap in Virginia's large animal veterinary services , articleNearly half of Virginia's livestock producers can't get adequate veterinary care. The state created a first-of-its-kind position to fix that. The person they hired has been preparing for it his whole life.
Date: Apr 23, 2026 - -
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From dairy farms to drug resistance, Ray Kaplan’s career-long fight against parasites the world keeps underestimating , articleRay Kaplan, a 1988 DVM graduate, is the recipient of the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Alumni Award from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.
Date: Apr 22, 2026 - -
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Center training veterinarians for public and corporate work has new name, new director , articleThe veterinarians who protect your food supply, monitor disease outbreaks, and prepare for the next pandemic don't work in a private clinic. Virginia Tech is training more of them.
Date: Apr 20, 2026 - -
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From charter class to Lifetime Achievement: Bill Pierson’s 40-Year bond with the veterinary college , articleBill Pierson helped build the veterinary college as a first-year student more than 40 years ago and kept coming back to a school that, even in retirement, he still cannot quite leave.
Date: Apr 15, 2026 - -
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VMCVM Alumni Spotlight: Carolyn Askew , articleMeet Carolyn Askew '91, DVM '96. An associate veterinarian at a clinic in Chardon, Ohio, she says VMCVM helped her learn how to be calm and professional in an emergency. Carolyn says she has friends all over the world thanks to the veterinary college, and has learned there are Hokies everywhere — "If you have a VT sticker or a t-shirt people will stop you!"
Date: Apr 10, 2026 -
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