Students Urged to Encourage Creative Faculty Members to Submit Entrees

VetMedAcademy and the Merck Veterinary Manual Announce the “COVID Educational Creations”

Contest for Veterinary Instructors and Veterinary Technician Instructors  

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A Message from ICDC

Greetings from The Integrative Communications and Diversity Committee! 

On behalf of SAVMA’s ICDC, we sincerely hope that you and your friends and families are managing during these strange and difficult times. ICDC wanted to take a moment to reach out to everyone and acknowledge the vast variety of situations that veterinary students across our country are facing. We understand that for many, these times mean losing clinical experiences, employment, and even friends and family. With these challenging times, it is essential that each individual’s unique experience is considered and respected, and as a committee, we are committed to doing just this. If you have any questions or concerns, and you feel like ICDC could be of assistance, don’t hesitate to reach out and email us at SAVMA.icdc@gmail.com 

We also wanted to pass along this incredible resource created by the Tufts Veterinary Council on Diversity. It has a great compilation of books, movies, podcasts and music centered around diversity and inclusion. Feel free to take a gander here!

Dogs Sniffing for COVID-19

"Scientists are training dogs to identify COVID-19 by following their noses.

A new program at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) is putting noses to the grindstone for disease detection. Researchers are working with dogs to see if the canines' superior sniffers can help with early detection of COVID-19 in humans."

Read more about this incredible research here.

How Texas A&M Veterinary Lab is Helping with COVID-19

Awesome vet med shout out! The Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory at Texas A&M University has teamed up with local health care providers to process hundreds of COVID-19 samples. Read the full article here. Keep up the great work, Texas A&M!

Vet Students Impacting Environmental Health - April Winner

Congrats to Sierra Bouchard from Cornell University for winning this last month's "Vet Students Impacting Environmental Health" challenge! Read below about her commitment to making SAVMA more sustainable!

"Last spring, when our SAVMA Symposium 2020 planning committee was looking for Symposium Chairs, I volunteered to assist in making the symposium more sustainable - and thus the SAVMA Symposium Sustainability Chair was born! By working alongside the other chairs as a sustainability advisor, I was able to suggest green alternatives to improve sustainability in five specific areas: accommodations and venues, transportation, food and beverage, material use, and merchandise. Some of our major accomplishments included composting for all meals, providing reusable dishware (no disposable cups, plates, or cutlery), working with vendors to provide reusable day trip containers for meals instead of single-use wrapped to-go lunches, local and sustainably sourced food, sustainable merchandise, digital event tickets and lecture materials, provided recommendations to attendees so that they too could be more sustainable throughout symposium, and much more! Though symposium was unfortunately cancelled, I know that my work will be used by future planning committees to provide sustainable symposia, and have already received positive feedback from our vendors about how their views on sustainability have changed, and the role it will play in planning other events. For example, by working with us on such a large-scale event, Cornell Catering is now confident that they can provide sustainable options for any event that they are hired for in the future by providing non-disposable options, improving composting availability, and sourcing their food and beverages from local and sustainable sources. Small individual changes have a ripple effect - resulting in improvements in environmental health over time!"