He currently chairs the Department of Immunology at St.

Doherty received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries on the specificity of the cell-mediated immune deВ fense. The next day he spoke in the Large Animal Clinic AudiВ torium as part of the Veterinary PathobiВ ology Seminar Series. About 400 people from across campus attended. On April 29 he spoke on вЂњHow We Deal with VirusesвЂќ as the annual Beckman Lecture and part of the campusвЂ™s MillerCom lecture series. Gail Scherba, assistant professor of veterinary pathobiology. Wanda Haschek, head of veterinary pathobiology, and Dr. Many items feature the 50th anniversary logo. Show Your C V M Pride An order form for shirts and hats for sale will be mailed to you. See the auction story on page 9 for information on contributing items, and mark your calendar now to attend these fall and spring events. Peter Doherty, the first veterinarian to receive the Nobel Prize, accepted an invitaВ tion to visit the Urbana campus from felВД®bration.

Gail Scherba welcomed D r Peter D oherty to Illinois with an Australian flag. Essex is also a premier worker in immunodeficiency viruses. He has done seminal work on feline leukemia virus and its relationship to leukemia and lymphoma in cats, demonstrating not only how the virus is spread among animals but also the mechanism by which it survives in the mammalian host. Essex received his veterinary degree from Michigan State University and has led a distinguished career as a retrovirologist. Myron Essex, head of the Department of Public Health of the Medical School at Harvard University, received an honorary degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at its 1998 commenceВ ment ceremonies. V eterinarian Receives H o n o rary D egree Dr. There w ill be a luncheon and auction to support scholarships, and an evening gala of dinner and dancing w ill top off the celВ Joseph Bielitzki will speak at Foellinger Auditorium on campus. Next spring, in conjunction with the anВ nual veterinary medicine Open House on April 10, ASPCA head Roger Caras and chief NASA veterinarian Dr. Senator Charles Percy and form er College dean Richard Dierks broke ground fo r the Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building on O ctober 5, 1979, with the help o f an ox-drawn plow, symbolic o f the CollegeвЂ™s historic ties to agriculture.This and other memorable images will appear in a commemorative calendar being produced fo r friends and alumni as part o f the 50th anniversary celebration.

Direct your comments to Chris Beuoy at 2001 South You are invited to send your thoughts and memories about the College to be shared at the Fall Conference event. Erwin Small, professor emeritus and associate dean for alumni and public affairs, w ill share his insiderвЂ™s view of the life and times of the College of Veterinary Medicine and its students. At the Thursday night banquet, a man whose prestigious career has been concurВ rent with that of the College, Dr. At the 79th Annual Fall Conference for Veterinarians, being held October 15 and 16, an impressive roster of speakers featuring Illinois alumni w ill help mark the occaВ sion. This year we commemorate that event and the efforts of alumni, faculty, and friends that have continued to advance veterinary medicine in Illinois for 50 years. The creation of the College was hailed as a victory, the culm iВ nation of more than 30 years of effort by faculty and veterinarians who worked tireВ lessly to promote the veterinary profession in Illinois. 3ДЇiftieth Anniversary Celebrations to Coincide with Fall Conference and Open House Q n the fall of 1948, twenty-four veterans of World War II enrolled as the first class in the new College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois. U n ive rsity o f Illinois at U rba na -C h a m p aig n C o lle g e o fV e te r in a r y M e d ic in e

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