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Announcing launch of K. Lisa Yang Wildlife Health Fellows program

Announcement

Check out this new opportunity for our next generation of wildlife health / One Health leaders!
A student at work in the lab.

Ever wonder what happens with our students after they are done working/learning with the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab? Well, we keep in touch and follow their journey beyond CWHL. Here's a look at what a few of our wildlife students have planned next.
Victoria Campbell, whose day job is as digital content manager at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, also runs Wild Things Sanctuary, which specializes in caring for bats. Photo by Jason Koski/Cornell University

By day, Victoria Campbell is digital content manager at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, working on the lab’s websites and social media. But in her free time – every moment of it – she’s a devoted caretaker to bats in need.
The Transformative Power of Art in Wildlife Conservation with Brett Blumenthal collage.

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Cornell alumna Brett Blumenthal BArch ’96, MBA ’04, gave an inspiring talk on "The Transformative Power of Art in Wildlife Conservation," hosted by the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health, and the Zoo and Wildlife Society.
Krysten Schuler, director of the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab, looks on as pathologist Gavin Hitchener performs a necropsy on a bald eagle by Noël Heaney.

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My role within the laboratory is multi-functional, and I serve many stakeholders, including the wildlife health laboratory and the anatomic pathology group....
A Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.

Conservation may seem like something that scientists do to protect species that many people only ever see in zoos. But conservation can happen everywhere, such as in your backyard. Cornell's Dr. Krysten Schuler weighs in on how people can help.
CDV in tigers video screen capture.

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Cornell's Dr. Martin Gilbert gives a presentation on "Understanding and Managing Canine Distemper Virus as a Threat to Tiger Conservation" at Cornell University's Department of Natural Resources and the Environment in March 2024. 
David reviewing chain of custody forms for our waterfowl contaminant research project.

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As a former undergraduate researcher and now postgraduate research technician with the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab, I have mostly worked on a study of environmental contaminants in hunter-harvested waterfowl....
Fruit bats in flight from Pixabay.

In a new perspective paper in Nature Communications, Cornell's Dr. Raina Plowright and a team of ecologists, infectious disease scientists and policy experts have distilled their collective observations into three recommendations to prevent spillovers and halt epidemics and pandemics before they even start.
Samples being prepared for testing in a biosafety cabinet at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center. Darcy Rose/CVM

Cornell virology experts are sequencing the bird flu virus that recently affected cows in Texas, after work at Cornell and two other veterinary diagnostic laboratories found the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus in cattle samples, a first for this species.