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Biological check station for chronic wasting disease
The Student Experience
Chronic Wasting Disease
Disease Surveillance
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Student Support Fund
Student Support
Cornell Wildlife Health Center Student Support Fund
Wildlife
Wildlife Veterinarian
Wildlife Population Health
Free-ranging Wildlife Disease
One Health
Career Pathway
Nevada Department of Wildlife
Nevada
Bighorn Sheep
Elk
Bear Release
Fieldwork
Spruce Grouse
Mycoplasma
Mule Deer

Deer Brains and Duck Botulism: A Month with Nevada’s State Wildlife Veterinarian

March 03, 2025
After reading the alumni spotlight on Nate LaHue, DVM ‘13, during my second year of veterinary school, I knew I wanted to explore wildlife work in a government agency and decided to reach out....
Hunting for invasive apple snails as part of removal efforts on the Salt River coordinated by the Arizona Game and Fish Department. Photo: Sathvik Nallagatla
Wildlife Pathology The Student Experience
Student American Veterinary Medical Association
Government
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Student Support
Student Support Fund
Cornell Wildlife Health Center Student Support Fund
Southwest Wildlife Center
Mexican Gray Wolf
Arizona Game and Fish Department Wildlife Health Program
Prairie Dog
Apple Snail
Black-Footed Ferret
Sylvatic Plague
Capture Immobilization
National Wildlife Disease Database
CWD
Chronic Wasting Disease
White-Tailed Deer
Bighorn Sheep
Necropsy

Tales from the Desert: The Intersection of Veterinary Medicine and Government

December 04, 2024
Government isn’t the first place that most veterinary students would think of charting a career path, even those of us interested in wildlife. However, as I learned this past summer, government work can offer just as rich and diverse an experience as any zoo....