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NEAVS Awards Major Grant for Non-Invasive Veterinary Curriculum Development

(Winter 2002) — NEAVS has awarded a grant to further the innovative, non-invasive curriculum and learning tool development work of Lara Rasmussen, DVM, at Western University of Health Science’s College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM).

In informing Shirley Johnston, DVM, PhD, DACT, professor and Founding Dean of CVM of the grant, NEAVS President Dr. Theodora Capaldo said, "Dr. Rasmussen’s work regarding the importance and feasibility of progressive changes in veterinary education will create a new and needed ethic of compassion. Making such visionary leadership a reality is necessary, appreciated, respected, and will serve as a model for all veterinary education. NEAVS is happy to play a part in your efforts."

CVM is dedicated to the non-consumptive use of animals in veterinary education and training, and has pledged to use animals only in ways that will benefit the animals. "NEAVS is committed to changing the way education at all levels "uses" animals," said Capaldo, adding, "Your work complements our own aims – to make better and more compassionate science a reality. The excellence, even superiority, of non-animal-based methods of research, teaching, toxicity testing and other areas traditionally dependent on the harmful use of animals is proving that progress and humaneness can and must go hand-in-hand."

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For copies of Viewpoints 2000: NEAVS, Veterinary Medicine and the Making of an Anti-Vivisectionist, to which Dr. Rasmussen contributed, click on "Shop at NEAVS Online."

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