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Crafting a flight plan: An eagle’s eye view of raptor training
Nov 13, 2025
Ever wondered how a bald or golden eagle can calmly soar around a football stadium filled with nearly 90,000 noisy fans and nail its landing at midfield without deciding to take a detour for a fishing trip at the nearest lake? Our video series with the Auburn University Raptor Center (AURC), a unit of the College of Veterinary Medicine, offers a bird’s (and trainer’s) eye view of the process that makes War Eagle Flights possible before Auburn football games.
CVM opens doors to future veterinary technicians
Nov 12, 2025
In October, the CVM welcomed nine students and two instructors from Jefferson State Community College for a large animal lab focused on equine and bovine care. Hosted twice a year by the college, the lab is part of a collaborative effort led by Chief Veterinary Nursing Officer Erin Allen, Veterinary Nurse Training Manager Stephanie Mitchell, Large Animal Research Coordinator Jessica Brown and Dairy & Herd Manager Simon Taylor.
Ayomide representing CVM as Graduate School ambassador
Nov 12, 2025
Aderemi Morenikeji Ayomide, a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Science, will represent the College of Veterinary Medicine as an Auburn University Graduate School 1887 Society Ambassador. Ambassadors provide guided campus tours to prospective students, assist with special events and engage in professional development.
CVM welcomes Narayanan as Pathobiology department head
Nov 6, 2025
Auburn University’s College of Veterinary Medicine welcomed Dr. Sanjeev Narayanan as its new head of the Department of Pathobiology in October. Narayanan joins the college from Purdue University, where he had served as professor and head of the Department of Comparative Pathobiology since 2017. He also held the position of interim associate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Veterinary Medicine from 2024-2025. Narayanan led college-level initiatives in artificial intelligence in education and served as an academic lead for Purdue Online.
Phi Zeta forum places focus on student research
Nov 5, 2025
From a gene therapy-based vaccine for non-surgical sterilization in cats to the potential impact antibiotic residue in pollen may have on honey bees, Auburn University undergraduate, graduate and veterinary medicine students are exploring a wide range of research interests touching animal, human and environmental health.
Oct 31, 2025
Auburn’s Raptor Center and College of Veterinary Medicine unite conservation, education, and rehabilitation through one of the university’s most beloved traditions. At Auburn football games, the iconic pre-game eagle flights aren’t just a spectacle—they’re a soaring tribute to the mission of the Auburn University Raptor Center (AURC).
Going the distance: HumaneVMA scholarship represents milestone on Johnson’s professional journey
Oct 29, 2025
In each of the last two years, Johnson, a veterinary assistant in the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine’s shelter medicine program, laced up her running shoes to help raise money for Chicago’s Anti-Cruelty animal shelter. She tackled the Chicago Half Marathon in 2024 (her first 13.1-mile race) and chased it with her first 26.2-mile test of endurance at the 2025 Bank of America Chicago Marathon.
Behind the flights: Students, recent grads help advance Auburn University Raptor Center’s mission
Oct 23, 2025
While fulltime staff and veterinarians anchor the Auburn University Raptor Center’s rehabilitative care and educational programming, an army of volunteers plays a vital role in training and caring for the center’s resident birds of prey.
Passion for endangered species propels Auburn DVM student to Smithsonian externship
Oct 23, 2025
When Eli Morrow hung up his helmet, cleats and shoulder pads after playing football at the University of Utah, he had initially expected his educational and professional journey to continue with medical school. Instead, his attention shifted to cheetahs, red pandas, rhinos, black-footed ferrets, and other exotic and endangered species.
Tick Threat Tackled: Auburn faculty member wired into tick research
Oct 22, 2025
“Ticks are an omnipresent threat, and they’ve been around for millions of years, since before the time of the dinosaurs,” said Reif. “Many of the most common tick species are equal opportunity biters, so they can be a problem for pets and livestock animals as well as people. They also can carry serious diseases such as ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.”