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New Grants Announcement

The Office of Research & Graduate Studies is very pleased to announce that Dr. Lijuan Yuan (PI) and her colleagues have been awarded an RO1 NIH grant, entitled, Mechanisms of Immune Modulation by Probiotics. Please see our Research Awards page for more information about the grant. Congratulations to Drs. Yuan, Boyle and Vonck!

BMVS Graduate Student Seminar Presentations

Presentations by graduate students on current topics in Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences will be given on Tuesdays from 4 to 4:50 pm in the Heritage Room during the fall and spring academic semesters. Faculty are encouraged to attend the seminar regularly to support our trainees in this important aspect of their graduate experience.

View the Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule (PDF).

Please contact Bill Huckle at or 231-3620.

 
VMRCVM Awarded Full Accreditation by AAALAC

The VMRCVM has been recently engaged in the process of seeking accreditation from the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC International). We have been formally apprised by AAALAC’s Council on Accreditation that our college has been awarded FULL ACCREDITATION following an extensive evaluation and site visitation conducted last summer. Many thanks to all who played a role in our achievement of this very important designation; and in particular, Dr. Jennie Hodgson for the excellent leadership she brought to this process.

NIH Unveils Enhancements and Improvements for Peer Review

The National Institutes of Health has unveiled plans to enhance and improve its peer review system. These changes in peer review policy are intended to maximize flexibility, remove any unnecessary burden, stimulate new innovation, and promote transformative research.

Information about the peer review plan can be found at http://enhancing-peer-review.nih.gov.