The new Veterinary Hospital and Education Complex will have a feline waiting room named after CSU D.V.M. graduate Anne Scholl-Mealey’s father, a fifth-grade teacher who adored cats.

Colorado State University is improving their educational experience with the addition of problem based learning. Their latest addition is the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science’s new Veterinary Hospital and Education Complex, a project that has been in the works for a decade and is finally coming to fruition.

At Colorado State, Dr. Heffernan brings a background that combines athletic experience and scientific training. A former varsity soccer player with a master’s degree in microbiology and immunology, she has spent her first year refining orthopedic examination and palpation skills while caring for a wide range of orthopedic and sports medicine cases.

Colorado State University Veterinary Health System has these tips to help prepare for evacuating horses and large animals.

CSU isn’t just putting existing programs into a bigger building. They’ve overhauled the DVM curriculum from the ground up — moving to a body-systems approach, getting first-year students onto the clinical campus, and redesigning the physical space to support the kind of team-based, peer-to-peer learning that veterinary education has historically been slow to adopt.

Colorado State University is opening a 15,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art livestock hospital this week as part of an ambitious, ongoing construction project on the University’s South Campus. Construction also includes the Veterinary Hospital and Education Complex, or VHEC, a centerpiece of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ focus on training the next generation of highly skilled veterinarians. The complex is scheduled to open later this summer.