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2010 Humane Student & Educator Awarded
07/21/2010
Animalearn is pleased to announce the 2010 recipients of its annual Humane Student and Humane Educator of the Year Awards.
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It's a Frog's Life: Dissection Alternatives in Zoology Education
06/25/2010
InterNICHE and Animalearn Partner to Promote Global Access
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MSU veterinary college ends nonsurvival surgeries
04/15/2010
Starting this fall, Michigan State University veterinary students beginning their surgical education will no longer train on dogs euthanized at the operation's end.
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Animalearn Helps African Students Save Animals
03/17/2010
To address the worldwide concern about the harmful use of animals in education and training labs, Animalearn, the educational division of the American Anti-Vivisection Society, is helping teachers and students in Tanzania, Africa with a donation of humane dissection alternatives.
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MSU finds alternatives to lethal dog surgeries
03/05/2010
The controversial practice of using live dogs for practice student surgeries and then euthanizing the canines will end beginning this fall at Michigan State University.
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MSU will end 'terminal surgery' on dogs
03/05/2010
Starting next fall, veterinary students at Michigan State University will no longer practice surgical techniques on live dogs.
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Vet school to cease “terminal surgery labs”
03/05/2010
Starting in fall 2010, the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University will no longer use dogs and other healthy, live animals to teach surgical skills.
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MSU to change vet surgery practices
03/04/2010
MSU no longer will use live animals to teach veterinary students surgical techniques, a spokesperson for the College of Veterinary Medicine said Thursday.
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MSU's veterinary school to stop using live dogs for training
03/04/2010
Michigan State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine will no longer use live dogs for training in invasive surgeries beginning this fall after years of review and protests from animal rights groups.
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Controversial Teaching Procedures to End at Michigan State University
03/04/2010
Starting in fall 2010, The College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) at Michigan State University (MSU) will no longer require terminal surgery labs to teach veterinary students. Terminal surgery labs use healthy animals, particularly dogs, to practice surgical skills, after which the animals are killed.
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Victory! Canadian School Board Approves Student Choice Policy
02/24/2010
Animalearn thanks its Canadian supporters who recently contacted the Burnaby, British Columbia school board. In a 3-2 vote on February 23, 2010, the board agreed to create a formal policy giving students the right to say "no" to dissection. Congratulations to Vancouver, B.C. resident and humane education advocate Lesley Fox, for all her hard work to help students and animals.
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Students in Middletown schools can skip dissection
01/21/2010
Students at Middletown schools soon will have the right to opt out of dissecting animals in science classes, with the revision of an existing policy that will permit students to decline any assignments using animal cadavers.
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Students could opt out of dissections in Middletown
01/20/2010
he Board of Education will discuss a number of new and revised policies at its 7:30 p.m. workshop meeting tonight in the library of High School North, 63 Tindall Road.
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Towards developing models for the dissection board
01/19/2010
Should a student be chopping a defenceless animal on a dissection tray as early as in 10th grade when alternatives like real-life “Jerry” dog or “Fluffy” cat and other sophisticated simulated models are available?
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UGC panel mulls banning dissections
01/01/2010
Cockroaches, frogs, earthworms are the most common animals found, not in their habitat places, but in the science laboratories for dissection. They are the most common dissected species found on the dissection tray of science students, which soon may not be a done thing.
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CT Residents: Help Make Connecticut the 11th State to Enact a Dissection Choice Law!
04/19/2010
Animalearn, the education division of the American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS), needs your help to pass legislation that will give Connecticut students the right to choose an alternative to dissection!
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Help Students in Burnaby, British Columbia Gain The Right to Say “No” to Dissection
01/29/2010
*Victory* Animalearn is pleased to announce that in February the Burnaby School Board voted to create a formal policy giving students the option to say 'no' to traditional animal dissections and instead use alternatives such as computer models. Thank you to all who took Action.
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