News
March 31, 2026
Leading experts, including Cornell’s Dr. Raina Plowright, highlight the 2026 UN High-Level Meeting on pandemic prevention as an opportunity to elevate spillover prevention to the heart of global pandemic governance. Members of the Lancet–PPATS Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover and civil society partners lay out five priority areas to confront spillover and its systemic drivers.
March 27, 2026
A once-neglected tropical virus is silently spreading across Brazil and putting rural communities at highest risk, according to a new study published in Nature Health led by the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and the University of Kentucky.
March 19, 2026
Faculty from the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Hospital traveled to Nanjing, China, for the third annual Wildlife Rescue Veterinary Training event. Dr. Sara Childs-Sanford and Dr. Cynthia Hopf-Dennis joined Chinese and other international veterinary experts to exchange cutting-edge international practices in wildlife rescue and medicine.
March 17, 2026
Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an extra-close eye on California’s northern elephant seals...
March 11, 2026
On Feb. 25, the Animal Health Diagnostic Center hosted a chronic wasting disease lecture and wet lab for the College of Veterinary Medicine community, in collaboration with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets....
March 09, 2026
Restoring traditional herding practices in northern Botswana keeps livestock safe from predators and diseases, reduces retaliatory killings of lions, and offers hope for restoring wildlife corridors.
Announcement
March 05, 2026
Mark your calendar for our biggest online fundraising event of the year on Thursday, March 12. Cornell Giving Day brings together friends, alumni, faculty, staff, and students to do the greatest good. Discover how you can support our mission—and help spread the word.
Podcast
February 25, 2026
Dr. Steve Osofsky shares how a potential paradigm shift in southern African livestock disease management has extraordinary implications for wildlife conservation.
February 19, 2026
From the islands of the Subantarctic to the dairy farms of the northeastern U.S., Dr. Amandine Gamble is on a mission to learn how different wildlife species contribute to disease transmission networks.
Video
February 17, 2026
Dr. Krysten Schuler, wildlife disease ecologist and director of the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab, dives into the biological, social, and political facets of chronic wasting disease, exploring areas where progress can be made if we are willing to forge into new territory.