News Releases
Now updated with RSS Newsfeed
2012
Frontier program partners with National Drover’s Hall of Fame to create traveling exhibit celebrating the cattle-drive era
Ellsworth’s National Drover’s Hall of Fame, in partnership with an historical-studies group at Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, the Frontier program, announces plans to celebrate the Chisholm Trail, the Great Western Trail, and other “north-south” cattle trails that fuelled the economic and social healing of post-Civil War America.
2011
College Of Veterinary Medicine to host "150 Years of Kansas Beef" book launch and dedication event in honor of JACK VANIER
MANHATTAN, KAN. – “150 Years of Kansas Beef” has arrived. The book was written to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of Kansas’ statehood, and is being dedicated to Jack Vanier. The College of Veterinary Medicine will hold a dedication ceremony and book signing on Sept. 30 at 4:00 p.m. in the K-State Alumni Center. President Kirk Schulz, Dean Ralph Richardson, Dr. Dan Thomson and Dr. Dan Upson will speak at the book launch.
2008
American
Veterinary Medical Association honors K-State’s Dr. Noordsy with
its President's Award
Dr. Gregory Hammer, president of the
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and 1973 K-State
veterinary alumnus, will be presenting one of three annual
President’s Awards to Dr. John L. Noordsy, Sioux Falls, S.D. The
award is in friendship and recognition of a lifetime of
dedication to mentoring, teaching, training and molding young
men and women and instilling in them the respect and dedication
to the science, art, and practice of veterinary medicine that
has guided his life.
2007
A Career Guarding Animal
Health:
K-State's Apley
Among Most Influential Veterinarians in Cattle Feeding Industry
Veterinarian Dr. Mike Apley has devoted his career to
animal health. The Kansas State University professor's efforts
were recognized recently when he was spotlighted as one of the
six most influential veterinarians in the cattle feeding
industry in the past 35 years. Bovine Veterinary Magazine
featured Apley and other industry leaders in an article on "VIPs
of the Feedlot Industry."
U.S. Army Veterinary Corps gives Daniel
Holland Leadership Award to K-State alumnus Neal Woollen
Lt. Col. Neal W. Woollen, Fayetteville, N.C., a
K-State veterinary graduate, has been selected by the U.S. Army
Veterinary Corps as the inaugural recipient of the Daniel Holland
Leadership Award. This award provides personal recognition by the chief
of the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps for one Veterinary Corps officer (VCO)
who best exemplifies and has made significant contributions in
leadership in the Veterinary Corps. The applicant pool for this award
includes all commands, agencies, activities and organizations with VCOs
assigned as well active duty, Army Reserve and National Guard.
2000
1999