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Aquatic Animal Health The Student Experience
College of Veterinary Medicine
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Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
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Jake Holshuh
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Veterinary Conservation in Action: Experiential Learning With the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

November 24, 2025
Veterinary medicine offers a wide range of career paths and options, and one of the most interesting and often overlooked is that of a state wildlife veterinarian....
Nurdles-plastic gravel by Barbara Agnew
Environmental Contaminants Planetary Health
Nurdles
Plastic
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Reuse
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Plastic Policy
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One Word: Nurdles

July 28, 2021 by Karyn Bischoff (emeritus)
One word: nurdles. Nurdles are plastic pellets, approximately the size and shape of lentils or split peas. Nurdles are manufactured, and then shipped to companies across the planet to be made into other things — other plastic things....