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Research and Graduate Studies is of strategic value for strengthening and advancing the academic programs of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health (CVMNAH). Biomedical research and graduate studies are inherently interlinked and mutually supportive. A newly created office of an Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies reflects the significance of this new strategic position.

Research and Graduate Studies at CVMNAH is composed of:

a) research and sponsored programs

b) degree granting programs

c) non-degree postgraduate studies.

A strategic task force of the College recently convened and developed a plan for strengthening and advancing research and graduate studies. We now have a strong and strategic infrastructure of administrative and academic resources that are geared to promote a first rate veterinary and biomedical education, research and service. We have a truly diverse faculty, staff and students with a strong commitment to excellence in learning/teaching, research and service. Our commitment to service with emphasis on limited resource farmers is unique and far reaching in its impact. The infrastructure we have created to advance biomedical research and the fuller use of information technology throughout the veterinary medical enterprise is of the highest order. Collaboration with governmental agencies, the private sector and across disciplines both within Tuskegee University and other universities is growing. With a newly established Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, emphasis on veterinary and medical ethics in every dimension of our academic and research endeavors will expand. At the dawn of the new millennium, the CVMNAH is therefore well positioned for the challenges of the new century.

Mission/Purpose

The mission (purpose) of research and graduate studies at CVMNAH is to recruit and admit highly motivated students, expose them to a high quality academic program that is dedicated to the creation of new knowledge through the "one medicine" concept and by expanding the biosciences, thereby creating bridges between veterinary medicine and the agricultural and food sciences on one side and human health and welfare on the other side.