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For Fitness’
primarily horses and farm animals.
Rowell said the bequest is particularly
welcome because, unlike a
one-time gift, an endowment generates
annual earnings. The funds
will help the hospitals maintain the
latest technology while enabling
members of the Cummings School’s
exceptional faculty to do their
best work, said the school’s dean,
Deborah Kochevar, DVM, Ph.D.
“It’s expensive to operate a
teaching hospital and to stay current
with sophisticated medical equip-
News of the Campaign for Tufts Winter 2008
Getting kids active is the idea behind
Shape Up Somerville, the obesity prevention
experiment launched by Tufts
researchers that promotes a citywide
campaign to keep schoolchildren fit.
The success of Shape Up Somerville
has led to the
creation of a
nationwide initiative—Children
in Balance—which
builds environments that promote
healthy eating and increase physical
activity in children through research
and outreach. Now, a $2.2 million
grant from the PepsiCo Foundation
will enable the groundbreaking experiment
to be replicated in other communities
around the country.
Assistant Professor Christina
Economos, N96, holder of the New
Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition,
and fellow researchers at the John
Hancock Center of the Friedman
School designed the Shape Up program
under which Somerville, Mass.,
Bequest Builds Endowment of Cummings School Hospitals
A
$4 million bequest from
the estate of an anonymous
benefactor, a
longtime client of the
Foster Hospital for Small Animals,
will provide $2 million each to the
endowments of the Foster Hospital
and the Hospital for Large Animals
at Cummings School of Veterinary
Medicine in Grafton.
“This helps us tremendously,”
says the hospitals’ director, Steven
Rowell, DVM. “One of the challenges
of being a teaching hospital
is that it requires equipment and
people beyond what you see in
private practice.”
Last year, the Foster Hospital
for Small Animals recorded 26,500
patient visits from cats, dogs, and
exotic pets, while the Hospital for
Large Animals treated 1,800 cases,
A groundbreaking anti-obesity
experiment is on the move
Sake
ment,” Kochevar says. “Recently
we installed a high-resolution MRI
unit used for large and small animals,
and a linear accelerator used to
treat cancer in small animals. They
are two examples of the sophisticated
equipment a hospital needs
today to stay on the cutting edge.
“We are the only veterinary
school in New England,” she notes.
“This kind of gift allows us to
maintain a level of excellence that
is expected of an academic medical
center.”