{"id":298,"date":"2010-09-16T11:32:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T01:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?p=298"},"modified":"2010-09-16T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T01:40:18","slug":"new-era-of-service-for-uq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"New era of service for UQ"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Picture Jon Linkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nAfter years of detailed planning and fundraising, Queensland University\u2019s $100 million-plus Veterinary Science complex has opened at the university\u2019s Gatton campus.\r\n\r\nBlair Federal MP Shayne Neumann, opened the state-of-the-art facilities at a function attended by industry, academic and community leaders.\r\nVeterinary Science Dean Jonathan Hill said relocation of the school to the university\u2019s 1068-hectare Gatton campus was an exciting development for veterinary education for Queensland and Australia.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis complex is the most modern in the southern hemisphere and the most comprehensive animal research and teaching centre in Australia,\u201d he said.\r\n\u201cThe development unites the school in a setting suited to learning and discovery in veterinary science.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt provides state-of-the-art teaching facilities for 550 veterinary science students \u2014 80 per cent of them female \u2014 and a vitality and economic boost to the Lockyer Valley.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe see the arrival of the school at Gatton as an opportunity for greater industry collaboration, particularly with dairy and beef cattle, swine production and equine operations.\u201d\r\n\r\nProf Hill said construction of the new facilities and recruitment of additional staff had transformed the student experience and enhanced learning outcomes.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis development ensures that UQ will remain a leading centre of excellence in veterinary teaching and research for future generations,\u201d he said.\r\nUQ Vice-Chancellor Paul Greenfield said $71 million from the Australian Government, including $47.2 million from the Education Investment Fund, and the generosity of donors, including many UQ alumni, had made the facilities a reality.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe new-generation Gatton Campus opens opportunities for students and staff, and shores up our capacity to deliver strong learning and research returns on the investments of the Australian and Queensland Governments, industry and private donors.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe veterinary facilities complement the $33 million Centre for Advanced Animal Science, funded by the Queensland Government and UQ, and a $6.9 million upgrade of dairy teaching and learning facilities, in partnership with the State Employment, Economic Development and Innovation Department.\r\nThe new facilities include a veterinary science building, the UQ Veterinary Medical Centre pre-clinical teaching laboratories, and the Veterinary Clinical Studies Building.\r\n\r\nThe university has recently received the keys to the $23 million Veterinary Medical Centre within the complex, which includes equine and companion animal hospitals, open to the public.\r\n\r\nIn 2007, the Australian Government awarded UQ $3.5 million toward construction of the equine hospital at its Gatton campus as part of the Capital Development Pool program for 2009 and 2010.\r\n\r\nNew veterinary services this year also include diagnostic pathology services to provide faster turnaround to veterinary practices from Ipswich to the Darling Downs.\r\n\r\nBackground\r\nSince its first intake of students in 1936, The UQ School of Veterinary Science has been one of the premier veterinary schools in Australia and New Zealand.\r\n\r\nThe School commenced teaching a first year intake of just seven students at wooden buildings at Yeerongpilly, Brisbane, just before World War II when classes were temporarily suspended when staff and students joined the service.\r\n\r\nStudents completed fourth and fifth years at Sydney University until 1951.\r\n\r\nIn 1961, the School moved to the main St Lucia Campus and almost 50 years later, has relocated again to a modern complex underpinned by world class teaching and research.\r\n\r\nHistorically, UQ has had the largest intake of veterinary students of any university in Australia and has produced more than 3000 veterinary science graduates, who are now working in 53 countries around the world, with Alumni networks in Beijing, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Shanghai, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom and Vietnam.\r\n\r\nLocally, approximately 70 per cent of all practising veterinarians in Queensland are UQ graduates.\r\n\r\nThe School is the only veterinary school in the world to be able to claim as one of its graduates a Nobel Prize winner – Laureate Professor Peter Doherty AC.\r\n\r\nIn Australia, there are currently only four universities offering fully accredited veterinary science programs. UQ is one of these four universities.\r\n\r\nThere are six UQ School of Veterinary Science sites. The UQ Gatton campus is the School\u2019s hub, and there are three sites in Brisbane (a veterinary teaching hospital at the St Lucia campus, the UQ Veterinary Specialty Hospital under construction and co-located with the RSPCA at Wacol, Brisbane and due for completion next year, and the University Farm at Pinjarra Hills).\r\n\r\nThere are sites in rural areas (UQ Veterinary Clinics at Dayboro and Goondiwindi) and an external site at the Oakey Veterinary Hospital, which provides additional, high quality clinical equine teaching.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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