Exciting Things are Happening at the Allen School. The Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health now has a newsletter to keep you up-to-date on the latest research and student education. To receive the quarterly newsletter click the subscribe icon at the upper right of the first newsletter  http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/newsletter/GlobalAnimalHealth/2011/Fall/Newsletter.aspx

Exciting Things are Happening at the Allen School. The Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health now has a newsletter to keep you up-to-date on the latest research and student education. To receive the quarterly newsletter click the subscribe icon at the upper right of the first newsletter  http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/newsletter/GlobalAnimalHealth/2011/Fall/Newsletter.aspx

Washington State University is enlisting cartoon characters to fend off avian flu, SARS, foot and mouth disease, mad cow disease and other bringers of global pandemic. The characters also will fight biological attacks, such as the intentional spread of foot and mouth disease. http://www.news.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=26705&TypeID=1

Guy Palmer, director of the Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health at Washington State University, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). He is a WSU Regents professor and holds the school's Creighton Chair. http://www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=25941&TypeID=3

Guy Palmer, director of the Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health was one of four panelists at a Common Reading Program event, “Assembling a Toolkit for Global Exchange.” This year’s common reading selection is “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and and Pakistan,” Mortensen’s second book.

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Officials from Washington State University and the Gates Foundation broke ground on a 62,000-square-foot, three-story flagship research building for a new School for Global Animal Health on June 25, 2010.

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You’re invited to groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Global Animal Health building—Friday, June 25, 2010, with a program and reception from noon to 1:30 p.m. All are welcome. The building site is adjacent to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital on the WSU Pullman campus. Directions: 877-978-3868 or  http://secure.wsu.edu/SGAH/groundbreakingRSVP

Funded in part through a generous $25 million grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the 62,000-square-foot facility will house state-of-the-art research and diagnostic laboratories. Completion is scheduled for March 2012. More about the building here: http://www.cpd.wsu.edu/CPDProjects/project.aspx?Value=2970