VOLUME 40, Number 5................................................................................................................ 8 February 2008

WEEKLY CALENDAR

14 February..................................................................................... SVM Faculty Meeting, 3:30 p.m., Lynn G167

WELCOME Ashlee Stillwell joined the SVM on January 22, 2008 as the new Department Secretary for the Indiana University School of Medicine - Lafayette.  Ashlee is a recent graduate of Ivy Tech Community College.  Her hours will be 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ CONDOLENCES Our condolences to Torrie Zimmerman, VCS, on the passing of her mother last week. ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ VET VITTLES Vet Vittles is open from 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Monday - Friday.

SVM/VIS Information Desk (Veterinary Computer Network & Medical Illustration) Phone:  4-1153      ( E-mail:  help@vet.purdue.edu      : Hours:  8:00-12:00 & 1:00-5:00, Mon.-Fri. --------------------------------------------------------- Emergency (Server Problems Only) Dave Chasey  -  477-6264 Jim Morrison  -  423-2054 ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ Lab Animal Care Weekend Schedule February 9-10 Cell phone #427-5731 (with voicemail) Office phone #62968 (if you want to leave a message not requiring an immediate response)

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Office of Diversity Initiatives office hours for STUDENTS

During the month of February, I will be available in my office on Mondays from 3:30 to 4:30 PM and Wednesdays from 12:30 to 1:30 PM to visit with the students of Vet Med.  I invite ALL students to stop by LYNN 1177G to discuss any ideas or questions you may have regarding this newly-formed office, and to share with you some of my own ideas and plans.

Please take advantage of this opportunity to meet your new Director of Diversity Initiatives, to have your voice be heard, and to have your questions answered!  I hope these meetings will spur an on-going dialogue between this office and students regarding diversity as it pertains to the profession and future of Veterinary Medicine.

Thanks!

Kauline Cipriani Davis, PhD

Director of Diversity Initiatives

On behalf of our students, we would like to thank all of those who helped with the A&I courses this past semester!!! Sincerely, Kathy Salisbury Pete Bill Joanne Messick Andrea DeSantis Kerr Dave Huse Larry Adams Sue McLaughlin Stephanie Plattner
Hal Amstutz, VCS Mimi Arighi, VAD Joe Camp, CPB Michael Childress, VCS Peter Constable, VCS Lori Corriveau, VTH Amy Fauber, VCS Lyn Freeman, VCS Kelly Gingerich, VCS Corinne Goldman, VCS Jonathan Goodwin, VCS Henry Green, VCS Jan Hawkins, VCS Patrick Hein, BMS Michael Hill, VCS Mark Hilton, VCS Tomo Inoue, VCS Christine Jaeger, BMS Debbie Knapp, VCS Sheryl Krohne, VCS	Gary Lantz, VCS Tim Lescun, VCS Michel Levy, VCS Annette Litster, VCS George Moore, CPB Nolie Parnell, VCS Barrak Pressler, VCS Eran Raizman, CPB Rose Raskin, CPB Jamie Schoenbeck Walsh, Vet Tech Catharine Scott-Moncrieff, VCS Janice Sojka, VCS Gretchen Stephens, SVM Library Kelley Thompson, VCS Steve Thompson, VCS John Van Vleet, VAD Woody Walls, BMS Dan Walsh, Vet Tech Ann Weil, VCS

ON THE CIRCUIT

(Reports for February 2-8)

TRAVELER(S)                              DESTINATION                                                                   PURPOSE

Laurent Couëtil............................... Dozule, France..................... Invited speaker for the opening of Alfort’s

                                                                                                                          Equine Sports Medicine Center

James Leary..................................... Raleigh-Durham, NC......... Give an invited talk at the National Institute

                                                                                                                      of Environmental Health Sciences

Kathy Salisbury............................... Zurich, Switzerland........... Participate in the exam writing workshop for

                                                                                                    the European College of Veterinary Surgeons

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VM 525 GRAND ROUNDS

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

“Eyes on Diversity”

Ms. Barbara Clark, Director, Science Diversity Office, College of Science,

and Special Assistant to the Provost, Purdue University

Ms. Paula Green, MS, Counseling Education

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

8:00-9:20 a.m.

Room 1136, LYNN

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VCS 620 SEMINARS IN CLINICAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY

Friday, February 15, 2008

8:00 a.m., Room 1136, LYNN

Dr. Catherine Metry

SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

SEMINARS

BMS 692 SEMINAR

Monday, February 11, 2008

4:00 p.m., Room G167, LYNN

David E. Gerrard, PhD

Professor of Animal Sciences

Purdue University

“Understanding How Skeletal Muscle is Fueled”

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CPB 697 SEMINAR

Thursday, February 14, 2008

3:30 p.m., Room 112, VPTH

Dinesh Singh, BVSc, MVSc, PhD

Graduate Student in Anatomic Pathology

Department of Comparative Pathobiology

Purdue University

“Cutaneous Fibromatosis and Systemic Poxviral Disease in Squirrels:

A Pathologic and Molecular Investigation”