Animal Management & Welfare Department unveils new service building The new animal care facility at the City of Amarillo Animal Managment & Welfare (AAMW) Department will be unveiling on Thursday, April 22. (Source: KFDA) By Tamlyn Cochran | April 21, 2021 at 2:19 PM CDT - Updated April 21 at 2:19 PM
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - The new animal care facility at the City of Amarillo Animal Management & Welfare Department will be unveiling on Thursday, April 22.
The new $1.4 million facility – the AAMW Animal Services Building - is funded by Proposition 2, approved by voters in 2016.
The facility was completed two years ahead of schedule and under budget.
The facility is located behind the main AAMW building, located at 3501 S. Osage.
TH Legislative Session, addressing several top priorities. Mitchell provided insight to those priorities and the Legislative session.
The Texas Legislative Session is held every other year, Mitchell said. All state agencies converge on Austin to testify before the Senate Finance Committee and the House of Appropriations to walk through their budgets and explain additional needs or wants. Some agencies, like Tech, testify before the Higher Education Committee as well.
The Senate Finance Committee and House of Appropriations testimonies focus on the budget, Mitchell said. The primary ways the state raises money for the budget is through sales tax revenue, which were impacted by COVID-19 and through the severance tax revenues, which comes from oil and gas production.
The Texas Tech Board of Regents convened at 11 a.m. Feb. 25, to discuss Tech System matters.
Tech System Chancellor, Dr. Tedd Mitchell, provided a report on COVID-19, presenting national statistics of vaccinations. In the statistics provided, Lubbock was number three nationwide in COVID-19 vaccinations.
Additionally, because of COVID-19 precautions such as wearing masks, social distancing and washing hands, influenza cases have been low, Mitchell said.
Regent Dustin Womble said, âThe attitude here in West Texas about this crisis and how weâre handling it, and whether itâs coming to an end and that things will return to normal is so different than it is in other parts of the country.â
Texas Tech set to launch School of Veterinary Medicine this year
video: Texas Tech set to launch School of Veterinary Medicine this year By Allisa Miller | February 3, 2021 at 9:35 PM CST - Updated February 4 at 12:48 AM
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - A school that has been an idea for 50 years will finally be finished in August this year.
Since the groundbreaking in 2019, construction of the new school has been underway for about 13 months.
Before that, faculty say it took two years just planning the program and building.
“We have been working very hard to get to this year where we get to welcome our first class and start delivering the curriculum,” said Guy Loneragan, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, Texas Tech University.
News Highlights: Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine adds epidemiology expert | KLBK | KAMC
AMARILLO and LUBBOCK, Texas (NEWS RELEASE) – The following is a press release from Texas Tech University:
Diagnosing and effectively treating a patient’s disease is one thing. Still, a completely different approach is needed to understand, control and prevent infectious organisms and diseases in populations. Epidemiology is the field of science in which populations are studied to better promote health across the population.
Epidemiological skills are important to veterinarians and, by extension, to society as a whole. It’s easy to imagine a vet being called to investigate an outbreak of disease in a herd of cattle. But equally important is the role of the veterinarian in human health. In fact, the vet’s oath includes a pledge to protect animal and human health. Society benefits when new knowledge provides ways to advance this oath. New knowledge comes from curious rese