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CSU's Rob Callan Wins National Teaching Award 

Dr. Robert Callan, an associate professor at Colorado State University's
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the section chief
of livestock veterinary services at the college's teaching hospital, has
received the American Association of Veterinary Medicine Student Teaching Excellence Award in Clinical Sciences.

The award recognizes excellence, innovation and enthusiasm in clinical veterinary sciences and education. Callan was nominated by students for the award. A professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences, Callan is an expert in infectious diseases and immunity in livestock.

Callan teaches large animal veterinary courses and laboratories focused on clinical examination and diagnosis, interpreting diagnostic tests, anesthesia, surgery and infectious disease and immunology. He has adapted interactive lectures into teaching, providing students with virtual patients from which to diagnose specific problems, animated demonstrations of changes in the patient that point to specific ailments, and recordings of sounds from animals that can help diagnose heart and lung problems.

"This award was very humbling and inspiring for me," Callan said. "It made me reevaluate what teaching is all about and what seems to make a difference to the students. In the past, I thought of teaching as simply providing information and giving an exam to identify what information the students did not learn. For me, this has evolved to the realization that we are coaches for these students. It is our job to try to help identify students' skill and knowledge and then assist each student to move forward to their next level of expertise."

Callan spends about half his time teaching, 20 percent on research and another 30 percent seeing patients. He is a member of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. He joined Colorado State University in 1996.

Taken from "Today at CSU." 

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Colorado Dairy Health and Management Study

Like each of you, Frank Garry, Bill Wailes and Craig McConnell of CSU-ILM are concerned about the health of your cows. They know like you do, that cows become sick even if best practice management procedures are being followed. Something else is happening that contributes to early removal of adult cows from Colorado dairies and these three CSU dairy specialists have designed a study to investigate the problem of early removal of dairy cows.

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Colorado Equipment's Farm Show Available on Podcast

Are you listening to The Colorado Equipment Farm Show hosted by Keith Maxey?  It can be heard live at 7 a.m. every Saturday morning on News-Talk 1310 AM KFKA News, or streaming online at http://www.1310kfka.com.  You can also listen at your convenience! The show is now available by pod cast at: http://www.1310kfka.com/cefs/.

Guests for November included:

November 3, 2007:
Wayne Rieger, Executive Director for Larimer and Weld Counties Farm Service Agency, on Livestock Compensation and Crop Disaster Programs
Nancy Schleining, Director of Member Services for Colorado Livestock Association, on What CLA Offers.

November 10, 2007:
Tina Booton, Weed Division Supervisor, Weld County Department of Public Works, on Salt Cedar Control.
John Heller, Colorado Animal Identification Coordinator, Colorado Department of Agriculture on Traceability of Livestock.

November 17, 2007:
Michelle Langston, Events Coordinator for Weld County 4-H, on Mardi Gras and the Weld County 4 H Foundation.
Dr. Dave Van Metre, ILM-CSU, on Biosecurity and Bioserveillance.

November 24, 2007:
Sarah Evans, Weld County Department of Health, on Rabies.
Renne Picanso, Colorado Agricultural Statistics Service, on the Ag Census.

Western Dairy News: Seven Years of Cooperation

Eight years ago Bill Wailes, as the Colorado Dairy Extension agent, and his colleagues from 11 other western dairy states launched the Western Dairy News.  An innovative concept at its inception, the newsletter features articles distinctly applicable to western dairy production. It appears monthly in Hoard's West. Archived articles are available at:
http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/ILM/proinfo/wdnnewsletter.htm.

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DAIReXNET Launched in October 2007 at the World Dairy Expo 

America's dairy industry producers, professionals and consumers have a new Internet-based information and education tool at their fingertips. This dairy cattle website, DAIReXNET, was launched at the World Dairy Expo October 2-6, in Madison, Wis.

DAIReXNET is being developed through the collaboration of dairy cattle specialists throughout the United States. The experts came together to form a national, Cooperative Extension-driven, web-based community focused on designing a national resource on dairy cattle production. Dairy cattle specialists at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture are leading the effort through the eXtension Initiative and in collaboration with professionals at Penn State University, the University of Maryland, the University of Illinois, the University of Idaho, the University of Georgia and North Carolina State University.

This broad-based Internet resource, launched as a part of the Cooperative Extension System's eXtension Initiative puts a wealth of research-based information in an easily accessible format for anyone interested in dairy production. Beginning Oct. 2, people can access DAIReXNET via the eXtension Web site, then choose ³Dairy Cattle.²

The eXtension Dairy Cattle Web site features a frequently asked questions section that allows users to submit queries on various aspects of dairy cattle production. If an answer is not already available, the user's question is directed to dairy specialists who will research and answer the question. DAIReXNET will also allow users to gain access to current, in-depth, peer reviewed articles as well as state and regional dairy newsletters, news releases and highlighted stories from around the country, and a list of current events at the local, state, regional and national levels.

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CSU-ILM Worker Training Veterinarians Present at Annual Bovine Veterinary
Conference in Canada

Drs Noa Romano-Muniz, Frank Garry, Dave Van Metre, Jason Lombard and John Wenz of the CSU Integrated Livestock Worker Training Program have been preaching to Colorado dairy producers about the need for improved worker training for years. In Colorado YOU know and appreciate that better trained workers do a better job. Many of you have attended Noa's seminars or have had her to your dairies.

The rest of the nation has now taken notice of Colorado's exceptional worker training program. The ILM team held a session at the 2007 Annual Conference held in Vancouver, Canada.

Read their presentations:

Dairy Worker Training in Newborn Calf Management
Franklyn B. Garry, DVM, MS; Ivette N. Román-Muñiz, DVM, MS; Jason E.
Lombard*, DVM, MS; David C. Van Metre, DVM

Dairy Worker Training Experiences
Ivette N. Román-Muñiz, DVM, MS, DACVIM; David C. Van Metre, DVM, DACVIM; Franklyn B. Garry, DVM, MS Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80523

Is your Worker Training Effective?  Ask the Cows and Reduce Protocol Drift
John R. Wenz, DVM, MS Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164

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