Auburn Magazine Spring 2016

Joe began experiencing fainting episodes and collapsing this past September, and after visits to a Mississippi veterinarian, they determined the next stop was Auburn’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

Meet Joe

This 7-year-old bulldog marches to the beat of one of the most advanced pacemakers developed for human use.

Pacemakers help monitor and control the heartbeat. A pacemaker will send electrical impulses to the heart to keep the beating rhythm in sync and pumping correctly. The procedure is similar to the one done in humans. Under anesthesia, a pacemaker wire is threaded through a dog’s vessel in the neck to the correct place in the heart. A small incision, made in the back of the shoulder, then allows for insertion of the pacemaker under the skin and connection to the wire. — Janet McCoy

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SPRING 2016

Auburn Magazine

Auburn Magazine Spring 2016

Published on Mar 4, 2016

Auburn Alumni Association

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In this issue, you’ll learn more about how Steury and his team count bears, track their activities, and can pinpoint where they are — namely, Saraland, near Mobile,and Mentone, in Dekalb County. You’ll also learn that we don’t count Georgia bears as belonging to our state. Georgia’s male bears are bad to wander across the border in search of Alabama’s female bears. Then they go home again. Georgia’s wandering bears have nothing on AU alumnus Bob Henson and his wife, Phyllis, who have accomplished the rare feat of having visited every country on the planet, some safer than others. And safety—specifically, nuclear safety—is our cover story this issue as we talk to AU’s Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Oakberg, whose team at the International Atomic Energy Agency has been responsible for keeping nuclear weapons proliferation in check. Enjoy the issue—and watch out for those bears wandering over from Georgia. They’re up to no good.

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