Winter/Spring 2012 Aesculapian Magazine - University of Georgia ...

SCWDS in the news
The Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife
Disease Study (SCWDS) made headlines
for weeks in early January 2011 due to its
investigatory role in the blackbird deaths reported
in both Arkansas and Louisiana. CNN was among
the media on-site the first day that SCWDS
received blackbird samples from Arkansas; the
network broadcasted live shots from SCWDS
for about three hours that afternoon. Later that
same week, The Associated Press sent a one-man
crew to do a story that was sent out on its state,
national and international wires and posted on
its website for access by AP-member broadcast
outlets worldwide.
Dr. John Fischer, left, talks to CNN reporter Martin Savidge in early January 2011.
The CNN crew did multiple live shots during the midst of SCWDS’s investigation
into the blackbird deaths in Arkansas and Louisiana.
Photo by Sue Myers Smith
High school students explore
options at CVM
Photo by Christopher B. Herron
Photo by Christopher B. Herron
Dr. Robert Gogal (top far right), an associate professor in the department of
anatomy and radiology, and Shana Gross (DVM ’12) (bottom far right), teach
visiting high school students for VetCAMP on July 9, 2011.
The College of Veterinary Medicine launched its
first VetCAMP on July 9 for sixteen 11 th and 12 th grade
students representing Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama
and Delaware. The program aims to help high school
students explore veterinary medicine as a potential career
path.
VetCAMP, or Veterinary Career Aptitude and
Mentoring Program, offers participants opportunities
for observation and participation in the various services
offered by the UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital,
the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center, and the
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories. Camp attendees also
receive behind-the-scenes tours of the Atlanta Zoo and
Georgia Aquarium.
The students also learn about pre-veterinary
requirements for admission to the CVM, research and
study abroad opportunities, the DVM curriculum and
underserved career paths in veterinary medicine.
“We started VetCAMP as a way to expose young
people to all
of the career
opportunities
available to them
in veterinary
medicine,” said
Dr. K. Paige
Carmichael,
the College’s
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Information
Go to:
www.vet.uga.edu/GO/camp
associate dean for academic affairs. “Through VetCAMP,
we hope to broaden the students’ perception of veterinary
medicine while increasing their interest in the sciences.”
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