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    Thinking Like a VMD, Earlier

    When the Class of 2026 arrived at Penn Vet, they stepped into a great unknown. Their first year was also the start of the School’s modernized curriculum.  V’26 would be…

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    She Who Rules

    Maeve was never your average lamb, and from the start Emily Jaramillo, V’26, was smitten.

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    Donald Hoenig, V’78: One Health, One Career, One Force for Good

    A day or two before Thanksgiving 2025, Don Hoenig, V’78, flew to Washington, D.C., to meet two turkeys. His special assignment for the American Humane Society was to examine Gobble…

    A Miniature Dachshunds

    A Sweet Detour and a Lasting Legacy

    In a career spanning laboratory animal medicine, animal welfare, and bioethics, Margaret S. Landi, V’79, MS, DACLAM, MBioethics, has tackled many vexing questions. One in particular came while she was…

    Jane Hinton

    Filling in the Pieces: More on the Life of Jane Hinton, V’49

    When Bellwether published a look at Penn Libraries’ recently acquired Jane Hinton Collection last fall, the historical record suggested Hinton had retired in her early forties — an oddity that…

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    A Magical Discovery Reaches Across the Waves, the Years, and the Miles

    Greg Lewbart, V’88, and his wife Diane Deresienski, V’89, were leading a research expedition in the Galapagos Islands when a member of their party, Andrea Loyola, head veterinarian for the…

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    In the Office with Donna Kelly, DVM, MASCP, DACPV, DACVPM

    Donna Kelly, DVM, MASCP, DACPV, DACVPM, shares her New Bolton Center office with the campus’s microbiology reference library.

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    Breaking New Ground: Penn Vet Builds Future-Ready Learning Hub

    Set to open in the coming months, the 11,800-square-foot clinical skills center will be the first dedicated classroom space on the Kennett Square campus, ushering in a new era of…

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    A Love of Animals and the Land

    The Penn Vet of Dean Snyder, V’54, was a very different place than today. So was the world.

    Jane Hinton

    Unboxing a Pioneer’s Legacy

    Born in 1919, Jane Hinton, V’49, came of age when opportunities for women in science and medicine were scarce — and for Black women, nearly nonexistent. expertise in poultry and…

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