The New SAVMA President Wanted to Be on Broadway. Instead, He’s Going to Bat for Every Vet Student in America.
Meet Spencer Stelly, third-year LSU student, chemistry nerd, dog dad, and the person now leading the national voice of veterinary students.
She's Still in Vet School. She's Already Changing the Profession.
Meet Courtney Ford-Franklin, 2026 Vet Candy Rising Star and fourth-year LSU vet student building her professional identity before graduation.
She's a Fourth-Year Vet Student. She's Already Worked on Five Continents. And She's Just Getting Started.
Most veterinary students spend their fourth year finalizing rotations, finishing boards prep, and trying to remember what sleep feels like. Chloe Link is doing all of that and arriving at it having already worked as an African mammal zookeeper, contributed to marine mammal rehabilitation, participated in sea turtle conservation, performed wildlife capture and immobilization, and cared for more than 100 species across farms, rainforests, coastlines, and captive settings on multiple continents.
LSU Diagnostics collaborates with state partners to detect Chronic Wasting Disease in deer
Since 2019, LSU Diagnostics has worked in close partnership with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries to provide surveillance testing for Chronic Wasting Disease in the state’s deer population. That collaboration led to a significant milestone in 2022 when CWD was detected for the first time in deer along the Mississippi and Louisiana border.
LSU Vet School Researcher Receives $2 Million NIH Grant to Explore Novel Treatments for Alcohol and Substance-Use Disorders
Ethan Anderson, a translational neuroscientist at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded a five-year, $2 million R01 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to investigate new treatment strategies for alcohol-use and other substance-use disorders. The funding supports preclinical research aimed at understanding how lifestyle, environment, and genetic mechanisms interact to influence addiction.
LSU Vet Med Treating Three Texas Horses Quarantined with Confirmed EHV-1
Cases of Equine Herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) has been confirmed by equine veterinary clinics in Texas, with cases traced to a recent equine competition in Waco. Three horses from Texas that participated in that event are currently quarantined at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) and receiving treatment for confirmed EHV-1.