When Ram Raghavan heard from a former colleague at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that a 7-year-old girl had died from Rocky Mountain spotted fever as the result of a tick bite, he thought of his own daughter, also 7 years old at the time, and the potentially fatal danger posed to vulnerable populations by tick-borne diseases.
Not all students know their career path before graduating high school. However, a freshman assignment served as a defining moment for Sonja Perry.
“There was an essay for my first day of freshman year where I said I was going to become a large animal vet, and I was going to work at the Bowling Green Veterinary Clinic,” Perry recalls.
Two years ago, the 27-year-old graduated from the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine and returned to Pike County and the clinic with DVM behind her name. “This has been the game plan from very early on, Perry says. And I m just really thankful that my dream came true.”
Missouri s veterinary college receives $11 million gift
Associated Press 3/9/2021
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) The University of Missouri s College of Veterinary Medicine received an $11 million gift, which will be used to found a new imaging center, university officials said.
The gift from Glenn and Nancy Linnerson, who graduated from Missouri in 1954, was the largest in the college s history, officials said Monday.
It will be used to found the Dr. Glenn R. and Nancy A. Linnerson Imaging Center to advance comparative and translational medicine research at the university.
“The imaging equipment that this endowment will allow us to acquire will not only improve diagnostic capabilities for treating animal patients, but also has the potential to capitalize on Mizzou’s existing strengths and resources, like the MU Research Reactor, to expand medical studies,” said Kevin Lunceford, supervisor of the Veterinary Health Center’s radiology service. “Simply put, this gift will save l
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