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Four people wearing gloves stand on a sandy beach around a covered animal carrier, holding wooden boards labeled “Marine Wildlife Rescue,” with grassy dunes and trees in the background on a sunny day.
Wildlife Medicine Aquatic Animal Health The Student Experience
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Student
Student Experience
Student Experiential Learning
Aquatic veterinary medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
Elephant Seals
Sea Lion
Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute
marine mammal
Stranding
Marine Mammal Stranding
Aquatic Animal Medicine
Aquatic Animal Health
Aquatic Animals
Release
Wildlife Release
Reproduction
Reproductive Biology
Climate Change
Global Climate Change
Environmental Pollution

Wildlife Conservation Gets a Seal of Approval

March 10, 2026
Each spring brings familiar and unfortunately common threats to wildlife conservation along the California coast. Northern elephant seal pups, born in the first months of the year, are weaned from their mothers, leaving them vulnerable as they learn to find food on their own....
A giraffe stands in a zoo enclosure with a city scape in the background.
Wildlife Medicine Zoological Medicine The Student Experience
Australia
Taronga Wildlife Hospital
Taronga Zoo
Taronga Conservation Society Australia
Zoo
Zoological Health
Wildlife and Zoological Medicine
Zoological Medicine
Zoological Pathology
Zoological and Conservation Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
Career
Veterinary Career
Student
Student Experience
Student Experiential Learning
Externship
Veterinary Externship
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Student Support
Student Support Fund
Release
Critically Endangered

Zoo and Wildlife Medicine in Australia

February 20, 2026
This past summer, I traveled to Australia to serve as a veterinary student extern at the Taronga Wildlife Hospital located in Taronga Zoo Sydney....
Two red-footed boobies perched on a piece of PVC pipe in an enclosure.
Wildlife Medicine Aquatic Animal Health The Student Experience
Hawai'i
Hawaii
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell
Student
Student Experience
Student Experiential Learning
Student Support
Student Support Fund
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Externship
Veterinary Externship
Invasive Species
Bird
Bird Colony
Seabird
Seabird Conservation
Seabirds
Rehabilitation
Wildlife Rehabilitation
Wildlife Release
Release

Saving Hawaiʻi’s Native Birds: The Intersection of Veterinary Medicine and Wildlife Rehabilitation

January 26, 2026
I had the amazing opportunity to complete a veterinary externship at the Hawaiʻi Wildlife Center on the island of Hawaiʻi...
A sea turtle positioned at the entrance of a CT machine.
Aquatic Animal Health Zoological Medicine The Student Experience
Aquarium
Aquatic Animal Health
Aquatic Animal Medicine
Aquatic Medicine
Mississippi Aquarium
College of Veterinary Medicine
Student
Student Experience
Student Experiential Learning
Student Learning
Externship
Veterinary Externship
Student Support Fund
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Applied Research
Hands-on Experience
Aquatic Animals
Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
Dolphins
Necropsy
Anatomic Pathology
Coral
Coral Health
Coral Reef
Coral Reef Ecology
African Penguins
Aquatic veterinary medicine
Release
Wildlife Release
The International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine Conference

Practicing Aquarium and Rehabilitation Medicine in Mississippi

December 02, 2025
This past spring, I had the opportunity to travel to Gulfport, Mississippi, where I served as a veterinary student extern at the Mississippi Aquarium. It was my first time working at an aquarium, and I loved it....