{"id":3908,"date":"2019-03-01T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2019-03-01T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:50:01","slug":"pvm-60th-anniversary-celebration-is-officially-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/pvm-60th-anniversary-celebration-is-officially-underway.php","title":{"rendered":"PVM 60th Anniversary Celebration is Officially Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_6589_copy_banner_sm-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"60th anniversary building banner displayed\" class=\"wp-image-3912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_6589_copy_banner_sm-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_6589_copy_banner_sm-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_6589_copy_banner_sm-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_6589_copy_banner_sm-417x235.jpg 417w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_6589_copy_banner_sm.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A large banner celebrating the College of Veterinary Medicine\u2019s 60th Anniversary and the Purdue University Sesquicentennial now greets visitors to Lynn Hall on the east side of the building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine\nofficially launched its 60<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary celebration today (March\n1).&nbsp; A huge banner promoting the\nCollege\u2019s 60<sup>th<\/sup> and Purdue University\u2019s 150<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary\nnow graces the east side of Lynn Hall, greeting passersby traveling on the new\nWilliams Street extension.&nbsp; The banner\nwas installed Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also today, Purdue Veterinary Medicine faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends are attending the College\u2019s 60<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Kick-off Luncheon being held in conjunction with the Indiana Veterinary Medical Association\u2019s (IVMA) annual meeting in Indianapolis.\u00a0 The event features entertainment, a special anniversary cake, and a keynote presentation by PVM alumna Karen Cornell.\u00a0 Dr. Cornell is a professor and associate dean for professional programs at the Texas A&amp;M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.\u00a0 She earned both her DVM degree and PhD at Purdue in 1988 and 1993, respectively.\u00a0 Her talk is entitled, \u201cThe Continuum of Veterinary Medicine:\u00a0 Meeting at the Nexus of Change from Plow Horse to Poodles, from Anthrax to Zika, from Student to CEO.\u201d\u00a0 The luncheon program also includes music by the Purdue Musical Organization\u2019s singing group called the Voiceovers, and audience participation in the singing of Happy Birthday as a 60<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary cake is wheeled to the front of the Veteran\u2019s Hall meeting room at the Marriott Indianapolis East Conference Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s official kick-off event is just the beginning of the 60<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary event schedule.&nbsp; Other planned events include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Wildlife Medicine in Belize and Guatemala continuing education course \/\/ April 7-14<\/li><li>Fair Oaks Farms PVM Family Outing \/\/ June 29<\/li><li>Indianapolis Zoo PVM Family Outing \/\/ July 13<\/li><li>PVM Birthday Celebration \/\/ September 9<\/li><li>PVM Through the Decades event during the Purdue Veterinary Conference \/\/ September 19<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/60\/\">view the 60<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary website\nfor more information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine officially launched its 60th Anniversary celebration today (March 1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[812,56,410,964,963,25],"class_list":["post-3908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-impact","tag-60th-anniversary","tag-homepage","tag-ivma","tag-karen-cornell","tag-kick-off-celebration","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908","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=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}