{"id":31241,"date":"2025-10-10T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=31241"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:17:54","slug":"fall-cpb-picnic-fosters-celebration-and-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/fall-cpb-picnic-fosters-celebration-and-connections.php","title":{"rendered":"Fall CPB Picnic Fosters Celebration and Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Togetherness was a focus of an annual tradition hosted recently by the College of Veterinary Medicine\u2019s Department of Comparative Pathobiology.\u00a0\u00a0The annual departmental picnic September 20 at West Lafayette\u2019s Happy Hollow Park brought together faculty, staff, students, and their families for an afternoon of connection and celebration. The event provided an opportunity for members of the CPB community to gather outside of the academic setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attendees enjoyed a variety of activities, including friendly games of cornhole, a lively water balloon fight, and \u201cfree-form\u201d volleyball (also known as \u201ctossing around a volleyball\u201d). The event was filled with conversation, laughter, and a shared appreciation for the department\u2019s collaborative culture and commitment to promoting fellowship and a supportive environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250920_135330_Picnic_2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A variety of games helped facilitate interactions between colleagues in a non-work setting.\" class=\"wp-image-31244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250920_135330_Picnic_2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250920_135330_Picnic_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250920_135330_Picnic_2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250920_135330_Picnic_2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250920_135330_Picnic_2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250920_135330_Picnic_2-1320x990.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250920_135330_Picnic_2-scaled.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A variety of games helped facilitate interactions between colleagues in a non-work setting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Togetherness was a focus of an annual tradition hosted recently by the College of Veterinary Medicine\u2019s Department of Comparative Pathobiology.  The annual departmental picnic September 20 at West Lafayette\u2019s Happy Hollow Park brought together faculty, staff, students, and their families for an afternoon of connection and celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,29],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-31241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-our-people","tag-cpb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31247,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31241\/revisions\/31247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}