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April 1, 1998
Event to highlight Vet School researchWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine will present its eleventh annual Phi Zeta Research Day on Monday (4/6).The event will run from noon to 5 p.m. in Room G210, Lynn Hall. It is free and open to the public. Dr. Stephen B. Hooser, coordinator of this year's event and a faculty member in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology and the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, said the day will highlight research and academic scholarship in the School of Veterinary Medicine. The program is organized by students and faculty and is sponsored by the Purdue chapter of Phi Zeta, a national honorary society of veterinary medicine. More than 70 posters highlighting the research of the school's faculty will be displayed from noon to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. The afternoon also will include two talks and presentations of research and clinical investigation awards by veterinary graduate students. At 1 p.m., Dr. Larry Glickman, professor of epidemiology and environmental health in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology and recipient of the Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence, will give the opening seminar, "Pet Dogs as Sentinels of Environmental Health Hazards." At 4 p.m., Dr. Barbara Kitchell, assistant professor in small animal medicine at the Cancer Care Clinic, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, will give the keynote address, "Veterinary Cancer Medicine: Where it Fits in Cancer Biology." Kitchell is a Purdue alumna and has received numerous awards, including the National Cancer Institute Physician Scientist Award, the Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship Award at Stanford University, and the Gaines Cycle "Golden Fido" award for Veterinarian of the Year in 1993. CONTACT: Hooser, (765) 494-7440.
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