Semira Mancill and Ronnie Schnell are more than just dedicated professionals — they are passionate agriculturalists who live their love for agriculture beyond their nine-to-five jobs. During the week, Mancill, DVM and a Diplomate of the American College of Theriogenologists, works as a veterinary diagnostician at the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, TVMDL. In […]

Payton Porubsky has always been interested in cattle. While most kids her age spent their summers enjoying typical pastimes, she was in the pasture honing her cattle clipping and fitting skillset. Today, Porubsky owns and operates Diamond P Services, a show cattle fitting business, while also working full-time as a customer service associate at the […]

Armed with giant hacksaws and cheerful attitudes, the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory’s, TVMDL, necropsy team in College Station is devoted to positively impacting human and animal health one dissection at a time. The team is made up of two veterinary technicians, a lab supervisor, and a student worker. Each day, the team can […]

Julie Piccione, DVM, MS, DACVP, clinical pathology section head, and Randi Gold, VMD, PhD, DACVP, veterinary pathologist, are among the experts who contributed to a journal article set to be published in the June issue of Virology. The article covers the frequency in which hepadnavirus is detected in blood and liver samples from domestic cats. […]

One afternoon in the Polish countryside a family and their plow-horse, Kasztan, were strolling along a quiet road. Six-year-old Julie Anna Prusak sat in front of her five-year-old cousin Szczepan, Polish for Stephen, as they rode on the horse’s bare back. With Prusak’s uncle Tadek holding the lead rope, the children were enjoying the ride […]

The detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI, subtype H5N1 in dairy cattle was confirmed in March 2024 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA. This finding was the first of its kind and shocked the global scientific community. The official confirmation came on the heels of testing performed at the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical […]

Four employees from across the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL) have been recognized with a 2024 Eugster Award. Formerly named the Director’s Excellence Award, TVMDL renamed its award program to honor Dr. A. Konrad Eugster, TVMDL’s former executive director who served the agency for more than 30 years. Dr. Eugster was the embodiment […]