A special shoutout to the animals who were celebrated with a gift during Pet Week! It isn’t too late to make a gift in honor of the pets in your life: http://supportuw.org/petweek

In recognition of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, the SVM spoke with licensed professional counselor Michele Gaspar DVM'94 about mental health and wellbeing in the veterinary profession. Spurred by a lifelong interest in psychology and conversations with veterinary colleagues facing personal and professional tensions, this feline veterinarian was inspired to shift her career to better understand the stressors facing vets.

According to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), between 2004 and 2016, the number of people who acquired diseases from mosquitoes, ticks and flea bites tripled in the United States. The Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector Borne Disease, co-directed by Lyric Bartholomay PhD'04, associate professor of pathobiological sciences in the UW School of Veterinary Medicine, is one of five consortia funded by the CDC to combat infectious diseases transmitted by ticks and mosquitoes.

🎓Presenting the UW School of Veterinary Medicine's Class of 2018... To our new alumni, congratulations on this significant achievement -- and best wishes as you pursue your dreams!

You know graduation has officially arrived when the class photo gets its place on the wall... Congratulations, Class of 2018! We're proud of you. 🎓 Watch the livestream of the commencement ceremony honoring our graduates starting at 5:30 p.m. (CDT) via the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Facebook page or http://commencement.wisc.edu.

👀 The SVM's own Comparative Ocular Pathology Laboratory of Wisconsin (COPLOW), which houses more than 60,000 different animal eyes, is featured in this great video from Seeker. 👀

Photos from the official unveiling of our #BuckyonParade statue -- “Animals Need Bucky Too" -- which is meant to pay tribute to all creatures, great and small, treated by the School of Veterinary Medicine. The name was derived from the school’s current efforts to significantly expand the school –- a capital campaign themed Animals Need Heroes Too. (Learn more at: AnimalsNeedHeroesToo.com.) Special thanks to artist Kathy King, from Monroe, Wisconsin, who spent nearly 190 hours between January and April transforming our statue into an animal-filled work of art, and to Debbie Cervenka and Karen Walsh for their sponsorship of the SVM’s statue. You can visit "Animals Need Bucky Too" in downtown Madison at 1 S. Pinckney Street (the corner of Pinckney St. and E. Washington Ave.) through September 12, 2018.

We’re live with Dean Mark D. Markel at the unveiling of our #BuckyonParade statue -- “Animals Need Bucky Too.” Special thanks to artist Kathy King, from Monroe, Wisconsin, who spent nearly 190 hours between January and April transforming our statue into an animal-filled work of art, and to Debbie Cervenka and Karen Walsh for their sponsorship of the SVM’s statue. To locate all of the Bucky statues, visit: http://map.buckyonparade.com/

Today's the day. We'll be live at 11 a.m. with a very special announcement. Join us!

Have you heard about the Bucky on Parade public art event coming soon to the streets of Madison and Dane County? We can't wait to see all of the life-size Bucky Badger statues, but one of them has us particularly excited. (HINT: 🐕🐈🐎🐄🐇🦎🦒🐑)

ADOPTABLE 🐱🐈 and 🐶🐕! Click through the images to see the SVM Junior Surgery patients looking for forever homes this week, and contact the student listed in each pet's profile for more information.

🐎Heading to the Midwest Horse Fair this weekend? Stop by our booth (#3926 Exhibition Hall) to talk with SVM students and members of UW Veterinary Care’s Morrie Waud Large Animal Hospital team about equine health. TODAY from noon to 1 p.m. meet Miss Rodeo Wisconsin, Amanda Chmielewski.