Students with Sights Set on International Horizons Turn Out for Global Engagement Fair - Purdue University

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Friday, October 21, 2022


Dean Willie Reed with the 17 Purdue veterinary students who received certificates of designation astatine the Global Engagement Fair for completing the Global Veterinary Certificate Program.

Each fall, the Purdue Veterinary Medicine Office of Global Engagement hosts an lawsuit that spotlights survey overseas opportunities and recognizes the students who person taken vantage of them oregon are funny successful doing so.  The Global Engagement Fair offers a mode for DVM and Veterinary Nursing students to mingle, person fun, and observe the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine’s planetary initiatives and opportunities. This year’s just was held Friday evening, October 14, successful the Veterinary Medical Library successful Lynn Hall.

“We grant the students who studied overseas the twelvemonth before, and connection prospective students a accidental to larn astir our large planetary learning opportunities,” said Addison Sheldon, the college’s manager of planetary engagement. “It’s besides erstwhile we admit our students who completed the Global Veterinary Certificate Program, which was created to prosecute students successful respect to their relation successful affecting satellite alteration done the betterment of carnal and quality health. It’s important to grant our astonishing students who recognize the value of being globally conscious veterinary professionals and instrumentality steps to enactment successful 1 of our galore planetary engagement opportunities.”

Guest of grant astatine the Global Engagement Fair, Dr. Alejandro Morales (right) of ARCAS Wildlife Rescue Center successful Guatemala, sports his caller Purdue Veterinary Medicine Jacket arsenic helium joins Addison Sheldon and Dean Willie Reed for a photo

The Global Engagement Fair featured festive foods, planetary displays and a programme successful which certificates of designation were fixed retired to students who completed the Global Veterinary Certificate Program.  A full of 17 veterinary students received the certificates from Dean Willie Reed arsenic Addison called them to travel guardant and beryllium recognized. 

This year’s lawsuit was other peculiar due to the fact that of a impermanent of honor.  Dr. Alejandro Morales visited the assemblage from the ARCAS Wildlife Rescue Center successful Guatemala. Dr. Morales leads Purdue Veterinary Medicine’s survey overseas programme successful Guatemala, and helium is 1 of the professors who participates successful the college’s online Wildlife Medicine Certificate course. While visiting Lynn Hall, Dr. Morales gave 2 lectures Thursday and Friday, October 13 and 14, connected the topics of “Primate and Psittacine Rehabilitation,” and “Wildlife Release Process and Rehabilitation.”  Then connected Friday evening helium attended the Global Engagement Fair, wherever helium received peculiar designation and a Purdue Veterinary Medicine overgarment arsenic a memento of the clip helium spent astatine Purdue with veterinary students, module and staff.

Veterinary students stitchery astir an informational array astatine the Global Engagement Fair showcasing photos and videos from survey overseas experiences successful South Africa and Brazil.

Writer(s): Kevin Doerr | pvmnews@purdue.edu


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