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Spirit – Bald Eagle Spirit, a Bald Eagle, arrived at the Auburn University Raptor Center in August 1998 and has since become one of our most iconic ambassadors. She was originally discovered as a fledgling in Florida in 1996 with injuries to her beak and wing. Although her wing healed successfully, her beak injury resulted […]
Auburn University Raptor Center Frequently Asked Questions
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Shelter Medicine Service About the Service The mission of the Hoerlein Spay/Neuter Program is to provide high quality reproductive surgical services and preventive care to dogs and cats from partnering animal shelters, while providing training to our senior veterinary students. These partnering shelters have made a significant commitment to maintaining a high standard of care […]
Fire Awareness a Great Idea for Pets Too
September is Campus Fire Safety Month, while October will continue to raise awareness as Fire Safety Month nationwide. But while those events give people an opportunity to think about what they should do in case of a fire, they rarely pause to consider their pets’ safety as well. To help remedy that, the Auburn College […]
Auburn Pre-Game Flights to Introduce Golden Eagle “Aurea”
A new golden eagle will join Auburn’s famed eagle roster this season to soar over Jordan-Hare Stadium before the Tigers hit the field. Golden eagle Aurea, which actually made her stadium flight debut last season prior to the Liberty game, will join gameday veteran Spirit, a bald eagle, as one of two eagles that will […]
Izenour Following Dream as 2019 Fulbright Scholar
For Auburn doctoral student and 2019 Fulbright Scholarship recipient Katie Izenour, a single trip to the Middle Eastern nation of Jordan opened up an entire world of new possibilities. It was there that, after eight years working as a government contractor for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and the Centers for Disease Control in […]
High Schooler Completes CVM Equine Internship
When 17-year-old Caroline Lucarelli arrived in Auburn June 9, she had never been to Alabama or the deep South. But thanks to a Colorado-based, Smithsonian-affiliated organization, high school seniors such as Lucarelli have earned coveted research-intense internships that offer deep immersion in various fields of science being studied nationwide. In Lucarelli’s case, the six-week internship, […]
NIH administers first clinical trial treatment for GM1 created by Auburn, UMass
Milestone marks the first patient with GM1 gangliosidosis treated with gene therapy The first clinical trial of a gene therapy treatment created through a research alliance between Auburn University and the University of Massachusetts has been administered in a child at the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, in Bethesda, Maryland. The NIH clinical trial […]
Four Auburn Veterinary Faculty Participating in Six-Month Research Training Program
Four faculty in Auburn University’s College of Veterinary Medicine are completing a prestigious six-month research focused training program through the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, or CCTS. Maninder Sandey, an assistant professor of pathology in the Department of Pathobiology, has already completed the training. Nicholas Rancilio, an assistant professor of radiation oncology, Department of […]
Veterinary Faculty Manuscripts Selected in Phi Zeta Award Competition
Research papers authored by two Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine faculty were recently selected as award-winning manuscripts by the Phi Zeta Veterinary Honor Society. Eric Fish, DVM, an assistant professor in the Department of Pathobiology, and Daniel Newhard, DVM, a cardiology resident in the Wilford and Kate Bailey Small Animal Teaching Hospital, were chosen […]
