Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Open House 2024

Sharing Cummings School with our neighbors
People in an anatomy lab stand at a skeleton display
Faculty member Ekele Ikpegbu, D.V.M., Ph.D., demonstrates muscle attachment actions on a teaching skeletal model in the McGrath Anatomy Laboratory. Photo: Jeff Poole for Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University hosted its annual Open House on October 5. Visitors were treated to Birds of Prey show, dog frisbee and agility demonstrations, hands-on learning activities, visits with our friends from Tufts Paws for People, Cummings School Farm and the cow and sheep pastures, tractor rides, face painting, and more.

Multiple people stand outside a red barn at a farm peering through a barn window to look at sheep and cattle
Visitors observe sheep and cattle fields through the barn window at Cummings School Farm.
Photo: Jeff Poole, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

 

An adult and child draw with markers outside on a white plastic covered hay bale.
Guests were invited to draw or leave a note on the hay bale wrapper.
Photo: Jeff Poole, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

 

A person wearing a purple shirt holds a purple disc with a black and white dog on a field in the sun.
Megan from North Smithfield, Rhode Island and her 3 year-old Border Collie, Carbon, prepares for the agility and disc demonstrations.
Photo: Jeff Poole, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

 

Individuals stand inside a teaching laboratory with simulation models.
Ashley Pope, certified veterinary technician and Mike Santasieri, B.S., C.V.T., L.V.T., FFCP, laboratory manager, demonstrate different simulation models in the Joseph Kelley D.V.M. Simulation Laboratory.
Photo: Jeff Poole, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

 

Smiling faculty member talks to individuals at a table
Thomas Jenei, D.V.M., DACVS, Associate Clinical Professor and Medical Director for Hospital for Large Animals, talks with visitors in the Equine Sports Medicine Complex.
Photo: Jeff Poole, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

 

Two individuals show a child how to hold an ultrasound probe at a demonstration table.
A visitor learns how to perform an ultrasound on a simulation model with the help of Cummings School D.V.M. students.
Photo: Jeff Poole, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

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