The College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) celebrated the Veterinary Class of 2023 with its annual White Coat Ceremony, which marks the transition from preclinical coursework to a year of clinical rotations, on April 30 in Statler Hall.Students will mo
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The College of Veterinary Medicine Class of 2022 celebrated the White Coat Ceremony May 1 in Bailey Hall. Scaled-back White Coat Ceremony for CVM Class of 2022
May 7, 2021
The College of Veterinary Medicine Class of 2022 enjoyed a small slice of normalcy this weekend as it celebrated the time-honored White Coat Ceremony in a considerably scaled back event May 1. Only students were allowed to gather in Bailey Hall, with family and friends tuned in to the livestream.
“The White Coat Ceremony holds particular significance right now, as it has bookended the COVID-19 shutdown,” said Lorin D. Warnick, D.V.M., Ph.D. ’94, the Austin O. Hooey Dean of Veterinary Medicine. “It was the last on-campus ceremony held by the college before we were forced by the outbreak to stop classroom teaching, events, travel and many other changes beginning in March 2020. Now, 14 months later, it is the first on-campus ceremony to be held by our college since the pande