Facilities
Modern veterinary hospitals must include research facilities as well.
Recognizing the longstanding relationship between the WSU CVM and the USDA,
college administrators, in concert with the university's central
administration, proposed a bold move to offer the new VTH as a match for
federal construction funding of a new Animal Disease Biotechnology Facility
(ADBF).
The Animal Disease Biotechnology Facility (ADBF) houses offices for
the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences and research laboratories.
The facility has 44,000 assignable square feet and opened in November of
1999. The total facility cost was $23.4 million, funded under the auspices
of the United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research
Service Buildings and Facilities Program. No federal funds will ever be used
for facility operations.
The ADBF at Washington State University is unique among all
USDA buildings and facilities projects because its entire focus is on the
use of molecular biology to resolve diseases in agricultural animals with
application where appropriate to human health.
Program Goals include
- To insure a safe and abundant human food supply;
- To improve the health and well-being of food animals produced in the
U.S.;
- and To provide research training for the next generations of
scientists responsible for the above two goals.
The Bustad Veterinary Sciences building houses the
Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology
(VMP), the Washington Animal Disease
Diagnostic Laboratory (WADDL), and college administrative and student
service offices.
Wegner Hall is shared by the
Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy,
Pharmacology, and Physiology (VCAPP), the
WSU College of Pharmacy, and the
Health Sciences Library
The
Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy,
Pharmacology, and Physiology (VCAPP) occupies McCoy Hall. McCoy Hall
also provides space for small animal surgery training elements, research and
teaching laboratories, and a large animal isolation unit.
The Caine Veterinary Teaching Center in Caldwell, Idaho provides D.V.M.
students with one-month, fourth-year clinical blocks of instruction in
feedlot management, herd health, and production and population medicine in
the heavily concentrated livestock area of southern Idaho.
On the WSU campus, the veterinary college is equipped with modern animal
care and holding facilities and received full accreditation in 1991 from the
American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC).
WSU is one of only ten veterinary colleges in the United States to be fully
accredited by AAALAC.
The
Hitchcock Equine Exercise and Research Track includes a half mile
all-weather training track with an inner half-mile bark track, performance
arena, and complete cross-country course. The track allows horses to be
safely exercised for diagnosis, study, and the treatment of lameness and
cardiopulmonary problems.
