BLACKSBURG, Va., July 15 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
This month, Mitchell Caudill starts a new job as an assistant professor and section head of bacteriology and mycology at the University of Kentucky's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
Five years ago, he was a public health veterinarian with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, which inspects the nation's meat, poultry, and egg products. What happened in between is a lesson in what a veterinary degree can become.
Caudill spent 2021 to 2025 as a trainee in a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded program at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech that trains...