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        <description><![CDATA[ Jessica 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.  ]]></description>
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        <title>One Health, many perspectives: Veterinary college marks 35th Annual Research Symposium</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Graduate and postgraduate students put their research on display, make connections for collaboration. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Strategic investment in faculty, infrastructure, and research culture produced the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine&#39;s strongest year of federal funding on record.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Marr joined Virginia Tech’s “Curious Conversations” to talk about the complexities of airborne pathogens, their impact on health, and a project she’s leading aimed at developing a smart air quality management system.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Meet Jessica Walters &#39;09, PhD &#39;14, DVM &#39;16, program manager for the Office of Laboratory Services at the VDACS. Originally focused on poultry medicine, she found her calling in diagnostics and lab leadership. She values the connections and skills she built at VMCVM and now gives back as a mentor, adjunct instructor, and advocate for agricultural communities—all while managing a lively menagerie at home. ]]></description>
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        <title>Up to $40 million in federal funding fuels research to revolutionize clean indoor air</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With the contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an interdisciplinary research team led by Virginia Tech and Linsey Marr will create a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent and defuse the next pandemic. ]]></description>
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        <title>The veterinary student hunting invisible enemies</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For Charlotte Nyblade, breakthrough moments happen not when an animal walks out healthy, but when a virus glows bright green under specialized light.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Meet Rana Estaleen, a Ph.D. student in the BMVS program at VMCVM. With a background in biology and chemistry, she’s passionate about advancing science to help others. Inspired by her sister and fueled by faith, Rana is currently researching arthritis and hopes to one day publish her work. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Meet Greyson Moore, a Class of 2028, PhD/DVM student in the Public/Corporate track. He’s passionate about infectious disease research and the broader role of veterinary medicine in public health. Greyson values the diverse support system at VMCVM and enjoys winding down with a good book and tea. He shares his home with O’Malley, the leash-loving cat, and Cinnamon Bun, a grape-obsessed rabbit. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The day after showcasing groundbreaking research, Virginia Tech&#39;s veterinary graduate students swapped microscopes for mentors at their first-ever Professional Development Day. Alumni who started in the same program shared wildly different career journeys — from Google to NIH to specialty practice — while teaching essential skills academic training doesn&#39;t cover: personal branding, networking, and translating scientific precision into career resilience. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The veterinary college showcased 70-plus research projects that go far beyond the lab, helping communities, animals, and the people who care for them. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Two veterinary students from Chile’s Universidad Austral participated in a three-month exchange at Virginia Tech, strengthening international collaboration and advancing studies in canine infections and cancer. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Marion F. Ehrich, professor emerita at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, has received the 2025 Society of Toxicology Founders Award for Outstanding Leadership.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The award honors a Veterinary Teaching Hospital resident who demonstrates exemplary scientific knowledge and special compassion in caring for patients and pet owners. ]]></description>
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        <title>Ira Blader among 65 fellows elected to American Academy of Microbiology </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Blader, head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine researches how parasites interact with their hosts. ]]></description>
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        <title>Veterinary college researcher Kylene Kehn-Hall receives 2024 Zoetis Research Excellence Award </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Kehn-Hall&#39;s lab uses artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of hemorrhagic fever viruses.   ]]></description>
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        <title>Case by case, students learn problem-solving skills under returning professor </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Stefanie DeMonaco returns to the veterinary college, where she worked from 2012 to 2023.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Ramirez-Barrios teaches parasitology content across all four years of the curriculum, witnessing students&#39; entire journey to becoming veterinarians. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ November is National Pet Cancer Awareness Month. With over 6 million pets diagnosed with cancer every year, Virginia Tech’s work in pet cancer research represents a critical step toward more humane and effective care.    ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Yukitaka Kani becomes an assistant professor of veterinary anatomy 13 years after first attending the veterinary college as an exchange student. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The 30th Annual AVI Talbot Veterinary Informatics Symposium recently took place at the college, celebrating three decades of advancing veterinary healthcare through data and technology. Named after the college’s inaugural dean, this event brought together global experts to explore how informatics is transforming animal care. From AI to zoonotic disease monitoring, attendees discussed the future of veterinary medicine and its impact on both animal and human health. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ World Rabies Day is Sept. 28, 2024, and the veterinary college is committed to raising awareness about this deadly but preventable disease. Learn more in this question and answer session with Tanya LeRoith, hospital director at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Wynne DiGrassie DVM &#39;96, MS &#39;00 is the owner and practice administrator at Mountain View Equine Hospital and an Associate Professor at Blue Ridge Community College. As a VMCVM alum, her well-rounded education gave her the confidence to teach exotic animal care, despite focusing on equine practice. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Kaylee Petraccione received a National Institute of Health award to further her research on the molecular mechanisms enabling the Rift Valley fever virus to cause disease. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For Janice O&#39;Brien, a Ph.D, student in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, the road to becoming a researcher in canine nutrition epidemiology has been anything but conventional.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In a program now in its 17th year, veterinarians explored scientific questions that could impact both animal and human health. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The 10-week internship through the Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program gave students hands-on research experience and insight into graduate school.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A study by doctoral student Josefa Garcia Mora on canine brain tumor measurement has become one of the most cited papers in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.     ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Six of 23 common wildlife species showed signs of SARS-CoV-2 infections in an examination of animals in Virginia, as revealed by tracking the virus’s genetic code. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Abdullahi Jamiu, a research assistant in the Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences program within the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, has been inducted into Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, and Omicron Delta Kappa.    ]]></description>
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        <title>Tanya LeRoith named new director of Veterinary Teaching Hospital </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ LeRoith replaces retiring director Terry Swecker, once her faculty advisor when she was a student at the veterinary college. ]]></description>
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        <title>Research identifies possible new pathway to treatment of colorectal cancer </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A recently published paper on a kinase and its importance in triggering cellular responses caps more than 12 years of research for the veterinary college&#39;s Coy Allen. ]]></description>
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        <title>Class of 2024: Top veterinary graduate Alexandra Reddy finds unexpected path to pathology studies </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Reddy found her way to the veterinary college through science coursework during her high school and undergraduate years. &#34;I love learning about these issues because I want to help the animals that they impact, not because I love soil biology or water chemistry or things like that,&#34; she said. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The veterinary college recently held its annual faculty awards reception to celebrate and recognize the exceptional contributions of its faculty members.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The veterinary college recently celebrated its annual &#34;Evening of Gratitude,&#34; a special event dedicated to honoring the donors whose generosity not only supports the dreams of aspiring veterinarians but also amplifies their potential to make a lasting impact on countless lives and communities.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech&#39;s ViTALS lab and its veterinary college alumni in state government are monitoring the avian flu situation, which has yet to affect Virginia cattle as it has in other parts of the U.S. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The honor society was founded in 2005 by Yale and Howard universities and holds an annual Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education at Yale to celebrate inductees.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Southard, associate professor of anatomic pathology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, works to uncover if animal deaths are related to illegal activity, such as neglect and abuse. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ More than 60 graduate students from the veterinary college and its research and public health programs created posters explaining their research with some of them chosen to give either a full-length or four-minute flash talk about their research to their peers and faculty mentors.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Stanton Foundation grant to fund canine mitral valve diagnosis research at veterinary college </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Research will determine if veterinarians using only a stethoscope and chest X-rays can be effective in identifying dogs that would benefit from medical treatment for mitral valve disease.   ]]></description>
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        <title>Marilyn Ortega named veterinary college&#39;s assistant director of belonging and strategic initiatives </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine has hired Marilyn Ortega as the assistant director of belonging and strategic initiatives. In this inaugural position, Ortega will work to foster a culture of inclusivity at the college and will be responsible for community engagement and programming.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students in the first cohort of the Molecular and Cellular Biology graduate program are preparing to graduate. ]]></description>
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        <title>New research aims to use AI to make cancer diagnostics for pets more available and affordable</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Ph.D. student Christina Pacholec will use artificial intelligence to analyze thousands of cytological images in an effort to identify lymphoma in dogs more quickly and less invasively. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:20:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Staff Spotlight: Andrea Green</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Andrea Green, the graduate coordinator for the Biomedical and Veterinary Science Graduate Program, describes her work as coordinating chaos, solving problems, and supporting students&#39; growth and success, all while balancing life as a #twinmom and cat lover, driven by the belief that &#34;everything is fixable.&#34; ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Anna Katogiritis transformed a chance email from Jane Goodall into a career championing animal welfare and environmental education globally.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Veterinary college experts pen definitive book on dog breeding</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Julie Cecere, clinical associate professor of theriogenology, and Phillip Sponenberg, recently retired professor of pathology and genetics, have co-authored &#34;Breeding Better Dogs: Canine Breeding Management.”  ]]></description>
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        <title>Veterinary college welcomes diverse expertise this fall with 12 new hires</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The new faculty includes specialists in areas such as virology, student success, veterinary social work, small animal surgery, emergency medicine, anatomic pathology, large animal surgery, and radiology.  ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 10:58:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Looking back on 2023</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ 2023 was a year of great accomplishment for the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. Animals were successfully treated, groundbreaking research was undertaken, alumni were influential worldwide, and faculty and students were honored for excellence. Goto to our 2023 &#34;top stories&#34; for a review of some of the college&#39;s best stories of the year. ]]></description>
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        <title>X.J. Meng awarded $2 million NIH grant to study hepatitis E-related neurological disorders </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Meng, University Distinguished Professor of Molecular Virology in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, will focus on understanding how the hepatitis E virus affects the cells in the neurovascular unit, leading to neurological injury. ]]></description>
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        <title>Veterinary college’s Roger Ramirez-Barrios receives Zoetis Research Award </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Ramirez-Barrios, clinical associate professor of veterinary parasitology, received the recognition for his work on disease-causing parasites. The award acknowledges researchers whose innovative studies have advanced the scientific standing of veterinary medicine.  ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 12:12:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Veterinary college promotes human, environmental, and animal health through One Health concept </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ One Health is the overarching concept that human, animal, and environmental health are inextricably linked and that professionals within the three realms should work together toward research findings and clinical applications that can improve the health in all three areas.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Tanya LeRoith named president-elect of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/11/vetmed-leroith-AAVLD-president-elect.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ LeRoith, who has been with the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine since 2005, is the director of Virginia Tech Animal Laboratory Services. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech veterinary scholars excel at national pathology meeting </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine showcased its talent at the annual American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) and American Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ASVCP) meeting in Chicago last month.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Phillip Sponenberg retires after 42 years of helping veterinary college, its students thrive </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Sponenberg has been present at every veterinary college commencement since the first one in 1985 and has attended every university graduation since he arrived on campus. Graduates from five different decades extol Sponenberg as a beloved professor who consistently dispensed knowledge, wisdom, and kindness.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Interdisciplinary team receives $5 million grant to explore COVID-19 virus ecology at the human-animal interface</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/10/flsi-usda-grant-sars-co-v-2-wildlife.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researchers will explore the risk of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, infections in wildlife communities and how those risks could affect humans. ]]></description>
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        <title>Graduate students vie for top prizes in science fair with a twist</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Elementary students judged Virginia Tech graduate students&#39; research presentations  at the Flip the Fair event held at the Melrose Branch Library in Roanoke.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Thanks to a four-hour double operation, including complex brain surgery, Jada, a 3-year-old Siamese cat, is beginning to return to her old self.   ]]></description>
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        <title>Graduate student researcher earns national award for study on COVID-19 vaccine candidate </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Anna Hassebroek, a doctoral candidate and an anatomic pathology resident at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, received the Boehringer Ingelheim Research Award for Graduate Veterinarians.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ On one morning each month, Stephen A. Smith examines the health of more species of animals than many veterinarians will in a lifetime. Because of that, some students get that same experience before they even graduate as veterinarians.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Personally, and professionally, Francisco Carvallo is deeply invested in spreading veterinary knowledge across Latin America.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ This summer, senior Kennedi Essex and junior Angel Collins, both animal and poultry sciences majors, worked with Priscila Serpa, research assistant professor of clinical pathology, on a variety of projects. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Xin Luo, professor of immunology, received a $300,000 grant from the Department of Defense to establish a new, double humanized model for lupus. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech Animal Laboratory Services within the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine has secured a $200,000 grant from the National Animal Health Laboratory Network to develop further expertise internally on nanopore-based genome sequencing for pathogen detection and disseminate that acquired knowledge to other laboratories.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Nine undergraduate students were paired with Fralin Life Sciences Institute-affiliated faculty mentors for the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, a 10-week training program designed to give motivated undergraduates full-time research experience that mirrors real-world graduate work. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech is fertile ground for a new rural environmental health training program</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A $500,000 institutional research training grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences will support Virginia Tech’s new Rural Environmental Health Ph.D. Fellowship Program by providing a two-year assistantship for six qualifying graduate students during the next five years.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Margie Lee ’82, DVM ‘86, associate dean for research and graduate studies at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Phibro Animal Health Excellence in Poultry Research Award.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Weger-Lucarelli will use the $150,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop easy-to-use tools and techniques that will allow more researchers to study RNA viruses and their mutations. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The National Institutes of Health has awarded $2.6 million to a Virginia Tech team over five years for a study of High Frequency Irreversible Electroporation (H-FIRE) for tumor ablation and immune system activation in cases of pancreatic cancer.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Academic-private partnership aims to reduce toxic effects of deadly digestive bacteria</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Mohamed Seleem and Nectagen Inc. have received a nearly $275,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study whether synthetic proteins developed by Nectagen can reduce the toxicity of the digestive bacteria commonly referred to as C. diff. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine has successfully competed in starting a third renewal of the T35 grant as the program enters its 16th year of giving veterinary students the chance to explore research in the summer between academic terms.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Bonnie Smith honored with emerita status</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/06/vetmed-smith-emerita.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1991, Smith’s scholarship focused on classical morphology, functional morphology, and teratology.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Veterinary college faculty recognized for contributions and impact</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/06/vetmed-faculty-awards.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The college honored faculty members who have shown exceptional abilities in outreach, teaching, innovation, and advancing veterinary medicine. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:46:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Seed planted in neurotrauma research consortium hoping to harvest multimillion-dollar grants</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Michelle Theus leads the new consortium for neurotrauma research, which has been awarded a $300,000 seed grant from the Fralin Life Sciences Institute to engage in groundbreaking scientific investigation of traumatic brain injury and its long-term effects. ]]></description>
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        <title>Veterinary professor finds harmful bacterial pathogen in Virginia farm-raised rainbow trout</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The discovery by Stephen A. Smith, professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathology and director of the Aquatic Medicine Program at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Aquatic Animal Health. ]]></description>
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        <title>Margie Lee named associate dean for research and graduate studies at veterinary college</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Lee, among the third class of graduates from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine in 1986 and one of its earliest Black graduates, has been head of the college&#39;s Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology since 2018.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech graduate students awarded 2023 Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering and Science fellowships</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students in the Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering and Science fellowship spend the summer working in state agencies or with elected officials, practicing the policy research, writing, and communications skills they may use  in their careers ]]></description>
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        <title>Chilean veterinary student exchange brings new perspectives, opportunities</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In a three-month exchange, students from the veterinary college and the Austral University of Chile explore hands-on opportunities. The two Chilean students studying at the veterinary college this year are Priscila Soto and Maksimiano Rodríguez.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Nadia Saklou receives research fellowship to employ data analysis for animal, human health</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Saklou first heard the term “clinician-scientist” while attending veterinary school at Colorado State. Now, with experience as both a clinician and scientist at Virginia Tech, she has become a clinician-scientist herself with a fellowship in hand that completes the circle back to Colorado State. ]]></description>
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        <title>Annual graduate research symposium supports college&#39;s mission</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine hosts an annual research symposium both to support the college’s mission of educating a diverse population of professional and post-graduate students preparing for careers in veterinary medicine, biomedical sciences, and public health and to showcase the research of its graduate and training programs.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Mid-Atlantic regional workshop at Virginia Tech highlights value of T32 research training program for veterinarians</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grant, more commonly called a T32 grant, offered by the National Institutes of Health provides a way to fund veterinarians who pursue a Ph.D. and become leaders in biomedical research with the guidance of an experienced mentor. ]]></description>
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        <title>Roger Ramirez-Barrios named Virginia Veterinary Medical Association’s Mentor of the Year</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Ramirez-Barrios makes students a priority and sees mentorship as part of his job, not an extra obligation.    ]]></description>
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        <title>Kevin Lahmers, leader in exotic tick disease study, receives Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Lahmers has been a central figure in the discovery, tracking, and control of Theileria, a parasite transmitted to cattle by the Asian longhorned tick. The tick was not known to be in the United States until 2017, and Lahmers helped identify its arrival in Virginia the following year.    ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Undergraduate students have the opportunity to learn more about Virginia Tech and to attend several workshops to help them prepare to apply to graduate programs.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ T.M. Murali, a professor in the Department of Computer Science, along with several colleagues from across Virginia Tech, has received a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to identify expedient, efficient, cost-effective options for the prevention and containment of zoonotic viruses. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Found in cats, Toxoplasma gondii is a human pathogen with serious health ramifications, causing life-threatening illnesses for people with immunodeficienies, miscarriages in pregnant women, and blindness in newborn children.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Lijuan Yuan, professor of virology and immunology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, will evaluate a potential live oral vaccine for norovirus, the No. 1 cause of foodborne illness. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Collaboration is key to solving complex problems, and the new Collaborative Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine is helping a wide array of veterinary clinical researchers work together to tackle challenges ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Jatia Mills said that the majority of the grant will go toward her research on investigating the neuroinflammatory response that occurs because of traumatic brain injury.    ]]></description>
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        <title>Researcher receives three grants from the National Institutes of Health to combat mosquito-borne viruses</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2022/03/fralinlifesci-duggal-nih-mosquito-borne-disease.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Nisha Duggal, an assistant professor of biomedical sciences and pathobiology in the      Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, received three R21 grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling $825,000 to combat the transmission of multiple mosquito-borne viruses, develop therapeutics, and predict future disease in humans. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Michelle Theus, an associate professor of molecular and cellular neurobiology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology within the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, recently secured two grants totaling nearly $4.5 million from the National Institute of Health (NIH) for research related to traumatic brain injuries. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech faculty are intersecting research, education, and service through COVID-19 classes, which give students the tools to maneuver through an ever-evolving pandemic and a minefield of COVID-19 misinformation. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Petco Love’s support of the Virginia Tech Animal Cancer Care and Research Center (ACCRC) in Roanoke has allowed patients to access cancer therapies and treatments, resulting in enhanced lives and more treatment options.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ At the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, researchers want to examine which factors are important when miniature pig owners — also known as “pig parents” — measure their pigs’ happiness.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine’s Summer Veterinary Student Research Program provides training to veterinary students from the college and other veterinary schools. The intensive, 11-week program highlights the biomedical research side of veterinary medicine. ]]></description>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/08/fralinlifesci-cezap-distinguished-speaker-series-2021.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The series invites outstanding scientists from around the nation to give presentations about their research interests, which range from salmonella in wild birds to antibiotic resistance, and from coronavirus pathogenesis to insect-transmitted emerging plant diseases. ]]></description>
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        <title>A glimmer of hope: Virginia Tech researcher creates cell lines to help treat mitochondrial diseases in children</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/07/fralinlifesci-cell-lines-mitochondrial-disease-in-children.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Mitochondrial diseases are a group of debilitating, incurable genetic disorders that affect one in 5,000 people throughout the world, most of them being children. But the recent work of Aloka Abey Bandara, a research associate professor in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, offers mitochondrial disease patients and their parents a glimmer of hope.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Jeffrey Wilcke honored with emeritus status</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1982, and a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology, Wilcke is the Metcalf Professor of Veterinary Medical Informatics. The 2020 recipient of the Allen W. Hahn Lifetime Achievement Award in Veterinary Informatics, he is one of very few investigators worldwide in the highly specialized field of veterinary terminology.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Anne Zajac honored with emerita status</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1986, and a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists, Zajac is a diagnostic parasitologist who has proposed alternative novel approaches to treat the growing problem of drug resistance caused by an overuse of traditional anthelmintic drugs. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Veterinary college alumni uniquely prepared for a pandemic</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ From public health veterinarians and pathologists to veterinary epidemiologists and disease surveillance experts, the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine&#39;s One Health-trained alumni have their boots on the ground in response to the COVID-19 crisis. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech researchers receive a $2 million NIH grant to develop Zika virus vaccine </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Zika virus outbreaks have now been recorded throughout Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, South America, and Central America. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ On Nov. 7, the One Health Working Group, based in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, held its annual One Health Case Competition in conjunction with International One Health Day, which falls on Nov. 3 every year. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, this year’s event was held virtually on Zoom. ]]></description>
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        <title>The Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens announces team-building pilot grant awards </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Funded by the Fralin Life Sciences Institute and Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 10 interdisciplinary research teams were awarded team-building pilot grant awards to tackle some of these complex zoonotic and vector-borne emerging infectious disease problems. ]]></description>
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        <title>Veterinary college alumna Lauren Dodd serves the world</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A dual-degree graduate of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Dodd continued a family legacy of service when she commissioned in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech launched this new interdisciplinary doctoral program in 2018. The first, second, and third cohort are made up of impressive students from diverse backgrounds with extensive research experience, and the program is now recruiting for its fourth cohort. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine is among a relatively small group of veterinary colleges awarded a T32 grant to train post-D.V.M. veterinarians in biomedical research. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Housed in the Center for One Health Research on the Virginia Tech campus, the decontamination system is helping to stretch supplies for the region&#39;s health systems, such as Carilion Clinic, the Roanoke-based nonprofit that comprises hundreds of clinics, hospitals, and specialist offices throughout Southwest Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine was honored to host two commissioning ceremonies for four of its graduates, now captains in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The presence of the pest and the disease it transmits — Theileria orientalis — are still unexplained, and the Ikeda subtype found in Virginia is a new discovery. At present, the Virginia Tech Animal Laboratory Services is the only laboratory in the U.S. capable of testing for the Ikeda genotype, which causes anemia in cattle. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Allen, an associate professor of inflammatory disease in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, weaves together Virginia Tech’s experts to conduct unprecedented health research. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine welcomed new students in its doctor of veterinary medicine, master of public health, and biomedical and veterinary sciences M.S. and Ph.D. programs. ]]></description>
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