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Veterinary Medicine

Educating a 21st-century veterinarian
Four Penn Vet students working on a dog in a lab.

Students in a clinical skills lab use a simulation model to practice the physical examination of the cardiovascular system in a dog.

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Educating a 21st-century veterinarian

A curriculum overhaul incorporates integrated learning blocks with lectures and hands-on activities focused on animal health to prepare future graduates for lifelong learning.

Sacha Adorno

What fossils tell us about the dining habits of dinosaurs
Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh in his office with dinosaur drawings on the computer

Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh of the School of Veterinary Medicine is coauthor of a soon-to-be-published book on dinosaur feeding that compiles more than a century of research on the topic.

(Image: John Donges/Penn Vet)

What fossils tell us about the dining habits of dinosaurs

More than a century of research is vividly shared in ‘An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology’ by Ali Nabavizadeh of the School of Veterinary Medicine and David B. Weishampel of Johns Hopkins University.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Four from Penn awarded Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research
Penn faculty Gustavo Aguirre, Jean Bennett, Albert Maguire, and Samuel Jacobson

This year’s recipients of the Helen Keller Prize from Penn are (clockwise from top left): Gustavo Aguirre, Jean Bennett, Albert Maguire, and the late Samuel Jacobson.

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Four from Penn awarded Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research

Faculty from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine were honored at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting in New Orleans.

Katherine Unger Baillie