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Wildlife Medicine Aquatic Animal Health The Student Experience
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College of Veterinary Medicine
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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...
Student helping to track penguin feeding time
Aquatic Animal Health The Student Experience
Externship
Veterinary Externship
Cape Gannet
African Penguin
Seabird Conservation
Cornell Expanding Horizons
Expanding Horizons International Education Program
Wildlife Conservation Medicine
Endangered Species
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Aquatic Animal Health
Aquatic Animal Medicine
Harlaub’s Gulls
South Africa
Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds

As Far as the Eye Can Sea: Clinical Interventions for Threatened Seabird Species in Southern Africa

February 20, 2025
Since deciding to pursue veterinary medicine, I have been interested in conservation medicine, with a focus on improving the health of wildlife populations. More recently, my interest has expanded to aquatic medicine...