Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

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The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine provides an encompassing education in modern veterinary medicine. The School offers excellence in teaching, an innovative and flexible curriculum, and research advancing both veterinary medicine and public health. Gifts from alumni, parents, and friends strengthen the veterinary school’s good work every day.

With Beyond Boundaries, The Cummings School embarks on a $100 million campaign aimed at moving the school to a new level of national and international influence and service. The work of the Cumming School matters more now than ever because of the increasingly strategic role of veterinarians in protecting global well being. Your support will elevate the school’s impact in areas such as conservation, public health, international programs, animal public policy, and interdisciplinary biomedical research.

Our priorities include:

Strengthened Financial Aid

We must triple our financial aid endowment to move the school closer to our goal of meeting the financial needs of most applicants, and creating classes comprised of the most capable and deserving students. In addition, we must bolster our graduate fellowships. The National Science Foundation has forecast an urgent need for a cadre of veterinarians trained in the areas of public health, agricultural research, biomedical research, and internal veterinary medicine. We are actively building a Ph.D. degree program in comparative biomedical sciences to meet this need.

A Strong Faculty

We must work aggressively to recruit and support exceptional faculty members. Components of this plan include: salary competitiveness, strategic diversity hiring, and doubling or tripling our endowed professorships.

Improved and Renovated Facilities

We must improve the quality of student life and enhance the vitality of the academic experience by addressing a notable deficiency in Grafton: a campus center. Conversations outside the classroom with other students and with faculty deepen the potential for lifelong connections to the school and each other.

In addition, we must build a new home for the Tufts Ambulatory Service. The service, based at a rented, former farmhouse in Woodstock, Connecticut, provides hands-on experience with livestock across eastern Connecticut, south central Massachusetts and much of Rhode Island.

We must also enlarge laboratory space for research. Additional space is needed to sustain the rapid growth of our premier program in infectious disease and to allow for further development of our programs in respiratory disease, reproductive biology, and hepatic disease.

Academic Centers and Value Added Curricular Programs

The Cummings School has a reputation for creating new fields and expanding the contributions of veterinary medicine to society. Our continued momentum depends on how well we anticipate and meet the emerging needs of our profession. Value-added curricular programs such as signature programs in Wildlife Medicine, International Veterinary Medicine, Ethics and Values, Biotechnology and Veterinary Medicine, and the Issam M. Fares Equine Sports Medicine Program have defined new career opportunities and elevated veterinary education and practice.

You Can Help

In practice and in philosophy, we are committed to expert and humane care for animals. We would not achieve this important mission without philanthropy, which has played a catalyzing role in the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine from the beginning. The generous outpouring of support holds symbolic, as well as tangible, importance for the Cummings community, revealing the broad and enthusiastic support for our values. Most recently we were honored when the Cummings Foundation invested $50 million in the school, one of the largest commitments ever made to a veterinary school in the United States. But the funds will not last forever nor meet all our needs. We are confident that a successful Beyond Boundaries campaign and the prudent stewardship of our resources will maintain the school’s leadership for generations to come.

Find out how you can help:

Cummings Veterinary Fund

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