Animals & Pets
In Tufts Magazine
Over 40 years, Cummings School has become an international leader in veterinary medicine. And all it took was buying nearly 600 acres for a dollar, palpating police horses, and performing the occasional surgery by penlight.
Here are five areas of expertise that have defined the veterinary school at Tufts University for four decades.
Over four decades, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine has built itself into an international leader in education, expert clinical care, and interdisciplinary research.
New research reveals distinct wound patterns from the criminal enterprise—and may provide a new tool for law enforcement.
After she had trouble finding care for her own dairy goats, Cara Sammons-Shepard, V16, decided to become a traveling veterinarian herself.
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Tufts’ Jessica Sparks researches the connections between fishing stock declines worldwide and forced labor on the open seas
Cummings faculty capitalize on kids’ affinity for animals to foster diversity in veterinary medicine and other STEM fields
A Cummings School alumna confronts the problem of stray mastiffs on Tibetan plateau endangering people—and snow leopards
As an outbreak continues to claim lives in India, a Tufts expert explains the rare and deadly viral disease’s origins and why the world needs to pay attention
Service animals need to see well to do their jobs, and that’s where free eye exams at Cummings Veterinary Medical Center come in
A veterinary surgeon at Tufts tests an experimental imaging technology on dogs being treated for cancer
