Strut Your Stuff

Kendra Wade - Texas A&M
V:50 I:3 Creative Corner

"Strut Your Stuff"

"Tiny Hunter"

Taylor Wilson Poetry

Taylor Wilson - Tufts
V:50 I:3

To Breathe a Daisy

For a day, a year,

perchance, a lifetime,

a bloodred birthday daisy

wilts quietly in a riotous bouquet.

The vase’s base can’t be 

the perfect orb that it appears

or my carpet would be littered

with bloodred daisy tears.

This day, this year

 - no more.

Like the blowing, sopping snow,

it melts into the streaming runoff,

indistinguishable

from the snowflake before it or after or with

but for the breath of a daisy

and water spilling to the floor.

To Breathe a Daisy
For a day, a year,
perchance, a lifetime,
a bloodred birthday daisy
wilts quietly in a riotous bouquet.
The vase’s base can’t be 
the perfect orb that it appears
or my carpet would be littered
with bloodred daisy tears.
This day, this year
 - no more.
Like the blowing, sopping snow,
it melts into the streaming runoff,
indistinguishable
from the snowflake before it or after or with
but for the breath of a daisy
and water spilling to the floor.

Shadows and Reflections

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Heart on a Platter

Roxanna Jeffreys - Texas A&M

V:50 I:3 Creative Corner

Heart on a Platter - Acrylic on canvas

Hummingbird - Acrylic on canvas

Partners for Healthy Pets

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Small Ruminant Wetlab at Texas A&M

Brittany Thompson - Texas A&M

Experiences

   The Student Chapter of the American Association of Small Ruminant Practioners at Texas A&M University helped co-host the 5^th Annual Food Animal Wetlab on February 21^st, 2015 with the SCAABP and Swine Veterinarians. Students attending the wetlab were able to pick 4 out of 15 possible stations to rotate through during the morning, and clinical professors volunteered their time to teach everything from claw amputation and ankylosis to bovine field handling. SCAASRP provided three stations: cosmetic dehorning, goat pregnancy ultrasound and goat laparoscopic artificial insemination.

Pictured: Alyzabeth Looney, Third year studentThe laparoscopic AI station was brought back for the first time in a couple of years, and students seemed to have extremely positive responses to it. Our chapter wanted to include this station at the wetlab due to the growing demand for assisted reproductive techniques on small ruminants and deer. This procedure is not included in standard curriculum, and we felt that including this station would provide students with an opportunity to be exposed to a growing niche in veterinary medicine. Both a grant provided by SAVMA and the Educational and Professional Development Committee and a semen donation from Circle Star Boers were essential in making this station happen. As a chapter we are grateful for all the contributions SAVMA makes to veterinary students here at Texas A&M University.