Kansas
State University achievements
2003
Veterinary Medicine
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K-State's College of Veterinary Medicine has been reaccredited
for the next seven years. The accrediting body found no major
deficiencies. Veterinary colleges are required to be reaccredited
by the American Veterinary Medical Association's Council on Education
every seven years. A nine-member evaluation team visited K-State
in March to begin the reaccreditation process. The team spent
four days visiting with students, faculty, veterinarians throughout
the state and university, and members of K-State administration.
The team also took a trip to one of the college's satellite learning
center in Clay Center, Neb. Oct 2003
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K-State senior Lindsay A. Strader is one of 12 national winners
of the American Physiological Society's Undergraduate Summer Research
Fellowship. Strader, a senior in premedicine and psychology from
Wichita, is spending the summer in the laboratory of an established
scientist and American Physiological Society member. In 2003,
57 applicants vied for the 12 research positions. Now in its fourth
year, this program is intended to excite and encourage students
about careers in biomedical research. Each fellow receives a $2,000
stipend to cover travel and living expenses during the 10-week
fellowship. Fellows also receive an additional $800 in travel
funds to present their research at the Experimental Biology meeting,
which attracts nearly 15,000 scientists annually. Strader is working
with Bruce D. Schultz, assistant professor of anatomy and physiology.
August 2003
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In honor of his educational contributions to the field of toxicology,
Fred Oehme was recently awarded the Society of Toxicology's 2003
Education Award. Oehme is a professor of toxicology and pathobiology
and director of K-State's comparative toxicology laboratories
in the department of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology. The
Society of Toxicology, a professional and scholarly organization
committed to the application of knowledge in toxicology to improve
and protect public health and the environment, presents the award
annually to an individual who has made significant contributions
in the field of toxicology through the teaching and training of
toxicologists. In 1980, Oehme proposed, organized and presented
the first Society of Toxicology continuing education course. Since
then, his education courses have remained a valuable source of
information for toxicologists. At K-State, Oehme was instrumental
in developing clinical toxicology courses in professional curriculum
and graduate biochemical and environmental toxicology and building
K-State's College of Veterinary Medicine's graduate teaching program
in toxicology. He has mentored more than 60 graduate and post-doctorate
students, many whom have successfully completed the examinations
for the American Board of Toxicology and the American Board of
Veterinary Toxicology. April 2003
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K-State is the first veterinary medicine program in the United
States to offer a master's degree in public health and the fifth
graduate program to offer the master of public health degree in
nutrition. K-State's program combines resources and faculty from
K-State's department of human nutrition, department of kinesiology,
department of animal sciences and industry and College of Veterinary
Medicine. The master of public health program will help meet the
demand for trained public health professionals to address issues
including rising health care costs, the increasing population
of older adults, obesity in children and young adults, outbreaks
of food-borne illnesses and the threat of bioterrorism. January
2003
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