Burgetta Eplin Wheeler

Oct 18, 2024

Alum from Class of 2007 Wins Prestigious Award for Outstanding Laboratory Animal Care

Dr. Coralie Zegre Cannon, who received her DVM from the NC State College of  Veterinary Medicine in 2007, won the prestigious Charles A. Griffin Award from the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS).  The award recognizes outstanding accomplishment in the improvement of care and environment of animals used in biological and medical research.  Cannon,…

Oct 3, 2024

NC State CVM’s Inclusion Efforts Win Excellence in Diversity Award

The NC State College of Veterinary Medicine’s work toward inclusion across its college community has been recognized with the 2024 Higher Education in Excellence in Diversity Award for health professions schools. Insight into Diversity magazine created the award in 2012 to recognize institutions of higher education that have an outstanding commitment to diversity, equity and…

Aug 28, 2024

Litwack Q&A With Dr. Javier Perez Quesada: Investigating Why Foals are Born with Neonatal Maladjustment Syndrome

In 2 to 5% of live equine births, the foals have trouble breathing, nursing and standing, and the ones who can get up often wander around aimlessly. About 20% of foals born with the condition, known as neonatal maladjustment syndrome, do not survive.  Suspicions about the syndrome’s causes are numerous, but no one has been…

Aug 21, 2024

Award-Winning Nolan the Recipient of Distinguished Professorship in Oncology

Dr. Mike Nolan, professor of radiation oncology and biology at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded the Randall B. Terry Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Oncology. The endowed professorship is the result of a $1 million donation from the R.B. Terry Charitable Foundation along with $500,000 from the college’s Distinguished Professors Endowment…

Aug 20, 2024

State-of-the-Art Dairy Barn a Cool Addition to NC State Veterinary Campus

Inside the new dairy barn on the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine campus, creature comforts include 15 industrial-size fans that knock 20 degrees off the suffocating summer heat and sprinklers that sporadically mist the milk makers as they munch alfalfa. The cows clearly are content with their new digs, and Dr. Allison West, clinical…

Aug 15, 2024

NC State Equine Program Helps Olympic-Caliber Horse Get Back His Jumping JuJu 

How Quincy the show jumping horse severely injured his leg while being transported around Ocala, Florida, during a $100,000 Grand Prix event in spring 2023 remains a mystery. It’s clear, however, how he recovered enough to compete and remarkably place fourth in the same event in 2024. His owners, Doug and Jess Payne of Rougemont,…

Aug 9, 2024

With 3 Days of Facts, Fun and New Friendships, NC State Welcomes Largest Veterinary Class

The Class of 2028, which is 125 strong after NC lawmakers approved increasing incoming cohorts from 100 last fall, brings extra excellence and exuberance to the College of Veterinary Medicine campus during orientation this week.

Aug 8, 2024

Class of 2028: A Childhood Menagerie and a Willing Mentor With a Side of Cilantro

At every routine and sick-care visit for the pets enlivening her childhood home, Claire Roffi would go with a parent and the dog, cat or rabbit of the day and inevitably ask her family veterinarian, “When will you let me come work with you?” Her pre-teen persistence paid off when Dr. Joseph Osbourne kindly agreed…

Aug 2, 2024

$3 Million Kenan Gift Leads to Endowed Chair in Translational Medicine 

With philanthropist and business leader Thomas S. Kenan III playing an instrumental part, the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust has given $3 million to the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine to establish an endowed chair in translational medicine.  “We recognize with enthusiasm that this chair will add to – and build upon –…

Jul 30, 2024

Next Step for NC State’s Pioneering Geroscience Research: A Center for Healthy Aging

Building on its world-renowned leadership in researching the aging process, the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine is establishing a Center for Healthy Aging led by Dr. Natasha Olby, the Dr. Kady M. Gjessing and Rahna M. Davidson Distinguished Chair in Gerontology. The center will bring NC State faculty members from multiple disciplines under the…