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Dogs
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![Veterinarian Marty Becker holds a black puppy from Ukrainian refugees at a Romanian shelter, as Alexandra Sava who manages shelter looks on](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2022/07/2022fall-unbreakable-bond-2-198x198.jpg)
An unbreakable bond
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Briefly noted
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Stacy Slade
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Compassion comes naturally
![Jaime Chambers with her dog on a wooded path](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2020/04/2020summer-sniffing-patterns-2-198x198.jpg)
Sniffing out patterns
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Briefly noted
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Medicine that lands on all fours
![Dominic Dipietco with search dog Jeb](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2018/04/2018summer-rescue-thumb-198x198.jpg)
To the rescue
Jennifer Brown ’99 grew up thinking a team of horses would be required to pull her away from an equine veterinarian career. Although Brown thought she was not that strong in science during high school, her love of training horses and interacting with the animals propelled her to pursue a doctorate of veterinary medicine at WSU.
The heroism displayed during the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, however, introduced Brown to a new possibility. “During my residency, 9/11 happened,” Brown says. “That obviously made a big impression on many people and one of the things that impressed me was the work of the search and … » More …
Reconsidering health
Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates proposed that four basic personalities were driven by excess or lack of bodily fluids, the “humors.” Discredited by biochemistry, we may consider the idea humorous, but Hippocrates’ theories began a centuries-long consideration of temperaments and personality in psychology and philosophy.
Other ideas of human health were first spurned and then accepted. Germ theory, the thought that many diseases are caused by microorganisms, was treated with disdain when it was proposed in the sixteenth century. It didn’t receive its due until nineteenth-century experiments by cholera researcher John Snow and chemist Louis Pasteur, among others, proved germ theory’s validity.
Even today we continue … » More …