Making Headlines: UGA Vet Med’s Year of Impact
In 2025, the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine made headlines for excellence in teaching, research, and service. The college advanced impactful initiatives—from addressing the rural veterinarian shortage and combating avian influenza to pioneering traumatic brain injury treatments and advancing breakthrough Parkinson’s research. Join us as we celebrate a […]
Biomedical physiology joins UGA Cortona’s curriculum
This fall, the College of Veterinary Medicine’s biomedical physiology course joined the roster of UGA students who arrive year-round in Athens’ sister city, perched atop a Tuscan hill, to practice art across various mediums.
Eleven faculty named 2025-2026 Aspire Fellows, including Vet Med’s Rabindranath De La Fuente and Hui (Iris) Zhang
The University of Georgia has named 11 faculty members to the 2025-2026 Aspire Fellows cohort. The Fellows represent seven UGA schools and colleges as well as the Center for Teaching and Learning.
PhD Student Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Empowered by Experience, UGA PhD Student Earns Fellowship to Advance Accessibility in STEM Education In a single semester as an undergraduate, Madison Livingston received diagnoses for four disabilities. This experience brought new challenges, but it also opened doors to opportunities in education research. Now, she is pursuing a PhD in […]
Aleksandra Pawlak
Aleksandra Pawlak is a veterinary scientist specializing in pharmacology, immunopharmacology, and comparative oncology. She earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and PhD degree from the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (UPWr) in Poland, where she has built her academic and research career. Currently, at UGA, Dr. Pawlak serves […]
Oksana Anderson
Dr. Oksana Anderson is an Academic Advisor I for the Biomedical Physiology Program students, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. Prior to joining the University of Georgia, Dr. Anderson worked as an Advisement Coordinator and an Academic Advisor for competitive pre-health programs at Athens Technical College. She completed her MA in Education […]
Richard Lamb
Richard Lamb, Ph.D. is a member of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and the Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy in the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy. He is currently the director of the Neurocognition Science Laboratory at the University of Georgia. He earned his Ph.D. from George […]
Distinguished Professors bring a wealth of experience and hope for new advancements to their roles with CVM
What makes a professor distinguished? In the College of Veterinary Medicine, it’s a clinician who sees the need for 24/7 emergency care for animals and builds a program to provide just that. And it’s researchers who dive deep into the mechanisms of well-known but little understood diseases in hopes of […]
Graduate Student Profile: Jonathan “Jonny” Matthew Hancock
Jonathan “Jonny” Matthew Hancock began his graduate career in toxicology at the University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine in May of 2020, when the COVID pandemic was putting fear and doubt into occasions that would otherwise be marked by joy and anticipation.
Dagmar Nelson
Ms. Nelson, originally from near Frankfurt in Germany, has lived in Athens, GA since 1989. She has worked at the University of Georgia since 2001; after advising students at UGA’s College of Engineering for 11 years, Ms. Nelson joined the College of Veterinary Medicine in September 2023 and is excited […]
Gregory Phillips
Education & Background Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, B.A.(1979) Biological Sciences Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, M.A. (1981) Microbiology University of Georgia, Athens, GA , Ph.D. (1987) Genetics Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Postdoctoral Fellow (1990) Molecular Biology College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Assistant Professor (1993) Biology Iowa State […]
Dax Ovid
Discipline-Based Education Researcher Science Faculty with Education Specialties Trained in Reproductive Neuroendocrinology First-generation college going
Ania Majewska
Expertise Infectious disease ecology Biology education research
Biomedical Physiology Minor
Understanding how living organisms function
CVM researchers receive NIH-USDA grant to study mechanisms of chromosome instability and early pregnancy loss
A team of researchers from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine and the Regenerative Bioscience Center has received a five-year, dual-purpose grant of $1.65 million from the USDA and the NIH to study the effects of chromosomal abnormalities on early embryo development and to discover and validate novel […]
UGA researchers seek targets to mitigate fescue toxicity in cattle
A $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will allow researchers at the University of Georgia to examine the minutiae of cattle and fescue microbiome interaction to find targets that will help mitigate the effects of fescue toxicosis, a forage-related condition that costs the U.S. beef industry more than […]
CVM department head elected president of AAALAC Council on Accreditation
Gaylen Edwards, head of the department of physiology and pharmacology and Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Veterinary Medicine, has recently been elected president of the AAALAC International Council on Accreditation. AAALAC International is a non-profit organization that promotes the humane treatment of laboratory animals. The organization also offers a voluntary […]
