Live CVM imaging allows noninvasive intervention

By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
MISSISSIPPI STATE – With specialized training and equipment and several years of experience behind them, a team of Mississippi State University veterinarians are ready to use interventional radiology to aid patients suffering from some difficult-to-treat conditions. more

CVM Employee of the Month

Congratulations to Michael Bassett, CVM’s May Employee of the Month!
If there’s such a thing as “founding staff” at the CVM, Michael Bassett would be in that group.  At the CVM since 1983 (with just one small interruption of four years), Michael has always been ready and willing to help just about anyone with just about anything.  As manager of LARAC, he supervises the day to day operations of the animal care group, but his role also finds him doing lots of problem solving and unusual duties.  “I like to be able to help the faculty out and solve problems for them, and I’m glad to try to lead my staff in a positive direction,” he says.  Michael and his wife Becky have two children (Presley, 7 and Hatcher, 6 weeks) and a yellow lab named River.  In his spare time, he likes to do the “usual Southern things:” hunting, fishing, working outside, and playing softball with his daughter.

Congratulations Class of 2012

Program

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Graduation ceremony in Lee Hall Bettersworth auditorium 

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Awards ceremony and white coat group photo

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MSU’s First Veterinary Technologists to Graduate

Back Row: Lindsey Turbyfill Smith, Cyndi Harvey, Andi Hannigan, David Eldridge, Tina Bloxsom, Chelsea Egbert, Kerry Centini.  Front Row: Michela Koppens, Kayla Jaynes, Paige Simpson, Abril Bernal
Photo by Tom Thompson

By Keri Collins Lewis 

MSU Ag Communications 

MISSISSIPPI STATE -- Mississippi State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine honored its first graduating class in the four-year veterinary medical technology degree program with a special pinning ceremony April 27. Dr. Allison Gardner, clinical instructor in CVM’s veterinary medical technology program, said veterinary technologists make important contributions in the field of animal care. “Veterinary technologists are a critical component of the animal health care team,” Gardner said. “A trained veterinary technologist can perform diagnostic tests such as radiographs, run lab work and conduct examinations to check for parasites. more...