To hear Alyssa Rauton tell it, the field of large animal veterinary medicine found her, not the other way around. The daughter of a nurse and a law enforcement investigator with no ties to agriculture, Rauton, who grew up in Waynesboro, was introduced to livestock in middle sc...

Dr. Alison Bradbury is shown in her Sandy Springs office with Enola Holmes, a one-year-old Scottish Fold. Enola has a brother named Sherlock Holmes.

The UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital hosted its inaugural Rainbow Bridge Walk in the fall of 2024. This event was created by the hospital’s licensed clinical counselor, Noelle Browning, as an opportunity to unite the community through shared celebration of the human-animal bon...

Dr. Joerg Mayer, DVM, walks into the teaching apiary outside of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Athens like he’s one of them – no suit, no smoke, just him and them.It’s okay. They know him there. His students know the bees, too, because Mayer pioneered one of the most robu...

For centuries, scientists have tried to crack the mystery of a devastating ailment once called “the shaking palsy.” But Parkinson’s disease, which causes tremors, muscle stiffness and difficulty walking, remains the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the United S...

In the College of Veterinary Medicine, it’s a clinician who sees the need for 24/7 emergency care for animals and builds a program to provide just that. And it’s researchers who dive deep into the mechanisms of well-known but little understood diseases in hopes of minimizing t...

Dr. Canaan Whitfield-Cargile, left, was the first faculty member awarded the Dr. Steve Fisch Professorship of Equine Medicine and Surgery. He is pictured with Dr. Fisch. (Provided photo)

Margaret “Meg” Lemons (DVM, 2024) was shocked to learn she was a winner of a $75,000 scholarship through The Foundation for the Horse, but her future colleagues were not.“Meg is just a superstar, and so deserving of this prestigious award,” says Dr. Kelsey Hart, associate prof...

A new vaccine from the University of Georgia could be the first clinically approved immunization to protect against invasive fungal infections, a growing concern as antifungal drug resistance increases.Fungal infections cause more than 1.5 million deaths worldwide each year an...