BLACKSBURG, Va., April 20 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Nearly 25 percentof the nation's veterinarians workoutside ofprivate practice. Most did not know that was possible when they started veterinary school.
For more than 30 years, a single center at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine haspreparedstudents and practicing veterinarians for careers inanimal and public health withgovernment agencies,research institutions, internationalorganizationsand industry.
When The Pew Charitable Trusts funded a wave of similar centers at veterinary colleges across the country in 1992, this was one of them. It is the only one stilloperating.
This year, it has a new name: the C...