Burgetta Wheeler

Dec 3, 2024

In the Nephrology and Urology Veterinary Field, NC State Leading the Way

With the addition of two associate professors this year, the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine has the largest number of faculty members in the country who are affiliated with the new American College of Veterinary Nephrology and Urology, with six faculty members dedicated to the increasingly specialized field.  Dr. Autumn Harris, an established researcher…

Nov 20, 2024

Anatomy of an Exceptional and Life-Changing Professor

Occipital, parietal, temporal are words the first-year veterinary students will hear a lot over the next three hours as they examine the animal skulls on the lab tables in front of them, but first their anatomy professor offers these: “massive transition,” “right on track,” “very OK.” The possibly disappointing results of the first big test…

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.

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…

Mar 26, 2024

Open House 2024: Milking Cows, Studying Science and Stoking Veterinarian Dreams

Among myriad fun exhibits, community members of all ages checked out the anatomy lab, tried their hand at laparoscopic surgery or learned about the science of nerve firings at the “Unraveling the Puzzles Behind Ouch and Itch” stop.

Oct 5, 2023

Making Magic: How Hiring a Scientist With Expertise Outside Vet Med was Essential to Cat Gallbladder Discovery 

'One of the key goals was to place someone like Ben in an environment where he could collaborate with clinicians. He is not in a silo somewhere else, and having the disciplines together like this creates magic.'

Feb 17, 2023

From Praying to Braying: Donkey’s Cascade of Crises Doesn’t Faze Care Team

When nearly everything that can go wrong does go wrong, Elf the very sick donkey and his persistent and grateful owner learned that the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine is exactly the right place to be.  Through Elf’s pneumonia, severe diarrhea, bacterial infection, viral infection, autoimmune response to plasma and several rectal prolapses, the…