In 1938, the Iowa State University Research Foundation (ISURF) was established to manage the collection of intellectual property…
In 1935, Tyson Feed and Hatchery was incorporated and the company at that time provided three services: sale…
In 1933, the New World Screwworm (NWS) was first documented as a significant problem in the Southeast following…
In 1919, Edward Francis extended the earlier observations on tularemia. His other studies, continued into the 1920s, clarified…
In 1916, the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) is an institution that represents…
In 1914, rabies vaccine was first licensed in the U.S. The H. K. Mulford Company, founded in Philadelphia…
In 1910, the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine’s first building, Connaway Hall, was built to house…
In 1908, Arthur Marston Stimson developed a better method for rabies vaccine preparation so it could be sent…
In 1908, Dr. Karl Landsteiner at the University Department of Pathological Anatomy in Vienna discovered that the cause…
In 1908, Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux at the Pasteur Institute were the first to describe Toxoplasma gondii…
In 1903, Iowa State University began offering the nation’s first four-year professional program in veterinary medicine. Today, veterinary…
On Jan. 13, 1892, the Washington Agricultural College and School of Science, now known as Washington State University…
On Dec. 24, 1890, the University of Central Oklahoma was founded by the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature as the…
On Mar. 28, 1890, Washington Agricultural College and School of Science (Washington State University) was established as a…
In 1891, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College’s first master of science degree was awarded to Charles N….
On Mar. 3, 1887, the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (North Carolina State University) was…
In 1884, the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine was founded. It progressed through five stages: a…
In 1883, the first vaccine-virus laboratory in the U.S. was established at the University of Missouri veterinary science…
In November 1882, construction of University of Texas at Austin commenced. The University opened a year later with…
In 1879, the College of Veterinary Medicine was established at Iowa State University in Ames, the nation’s first…
On Nov. 9, 1872, the Boston Fire began on a Saturday and end ended Sunday destroying 776 buildings…
On Oct. 1, 1872, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (Virginia Tech) was founded. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute…
On Mar. 27, 1871, the University of Arkansas was founded in in Fayetteville as the Arkansas Industrial University,…
On Jul. 11, 1868, Texas cattle disease first appeared at Jersey City’s Communipaw slaughterhouse in the New York…
On Feb. 16, 1863, Kansas State University, or K-State, was was founded in Manhattan, during the American Civil…
In 1863, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) was established. The AVMA, a not-for-profit association, is one of…
On Mar. 22, 1858, the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, now Iowa State University, was officially established…
In 1850, Texas A&M (Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas) was founded.
On Feb. 5, 1849, the first class of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with 17 students, met in a…