Murray State University

American public university at Murray in western Kentucky, founded in 1922 as a teachers' college. Teaches through colleges of science, engineering and technology, agriculture, education, business and humanities, with programmes in chemistry, biology, pre-pharmacy and pre-veterinary study, veterinary technology and animal health technology and nursing, and runs the Breathitt Veterinary Center at Hopkinsville, a state veterinary diagnostic laboratory providing pathology, microbiology, virology, serology and toxicology testing for livestock and companion animals.