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    Community Science Reveals Lasting Impacts of West Nile Virus on Pennsylvania Bird Populations

    A new study out of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine suggests that West Nile virus (WNV) has had impacts on one in five Pennsylvania bird species, demonstrating…

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    A New Bolton Center team’s beat-the-odds surgery means survival for a special horse

    For Monty, a 10-year-old thoroughbred, the odds were about as bad as they get. “Less than 10 percent” – those were the survival odds the gray gelding’s owners remembered being…

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    Penn Vet Gene Therapy Study Advances Another Potential Treatment for Rare Inherited Blinding Disease into Human Clinical Trial

    Vision scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) and the Center for Hereditary Retinal Degenerations at the Perelman School of Medicine have taken an important…

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    Penn Vet’s Working Dog Center Receives USDA Grant to Combat New World Screwworm

    The Working Dog Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet WDC) has received a two-year $404,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that…

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    Whether It’s Running the Cocodona 250 or Hiking the Trans Bhutan Trail, This Penn Vet Clinician Says: “Think Big”

    “I wasn’t nervous. I was super-excited!” said Nolen-Walston, a Penn Vet associate professor of large animal internal medicine. “You start at 5 AM, and it’s the most exciting, wonderful feeling.…

    Julie C. Ellis, wildlife ecologist and leader of the Accessing Urban Nature Initiative (AUNI), displays some of the project's new findings at its recent summit meeting.

    Foxes, Coyotes and Deer – Oh My! Penn Vet’s AUNI Wants You to Meet Your Neighbors

    Images of some of the city’s least seen, but most remarkable residents were the headliners at the recent first summit meeting of Penn Vet’s Accessing Urban Nature Initiative (AUNI). The…

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    Penn Vet Researchers Reveal Hidden Architecture of the Retina’s First Synapse

    New imaging framework could help scientists track how retinal circuits change in disease, respond to therapy, and rebuild after damage.

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    A New Lab Using AI to Better Understand Farm Animal Behavior and Aid Agriculture Opens at New Bolton Center

    An innovative new initiative that aims to use the power of AI to crack the code of animal behavior and help Pennsylvania farmers and agriculture celebrated its official launch at…

    From left: Penn Vet Dean Andrew Hoffman; Meg Kenny, accepting on behalf of her husband Dr. David Kenny; Dr. John McCauley; Dr. Patricia Brown; Penn Vet Alumni Board President Dr. Lindsay Shreiber

    The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Honors Three of Its Accomplished Graduates with the 2026 Alumni Achievement Awards

    Three distinguished graduates of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) have received two of the School’s highest honors, the Alumni Award of Merit and the Distinguished…

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    Penn Vet Names Inaugural Cohort of Stamps VMD/VMD-PhD Fellows

    Five students from the School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) have been selected as the School’s inaugural cohort of Stamps VMD/VMD-PhD Fellows, a prestigious scholarship initiative through the Stamps Scholars…

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