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July 2024

Brett Blumenthal BArch '96, MBA '04 artwork with photo of Brett in the middle.

Artist and activist Brett Blumenthal BArch '96, MBA '04, visited Cornell University in April 2024 to share her perspectives on the power of art to communicate, inspire, and transform conservation efforts. 
Natalie Smith with a sedated Snow Leopard.

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As an extern at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden’s Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife, Cornell DVM student Natalie Smith learned how reproductive medicine can help conservation efforts for big cats.
Nick Hollingshead at the computer.

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Although my job title is “data analyst,” only a fraction of my time at the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab is spent analyzing data. I help people understand how to turn data into useful information and build the tools to help them do so....
Deer roe by Wild Pixar from Pixabay.

Experts from Cornell and across the nation developed a computer model along with a user-friendly app that predicts counties where wildlife managers should target their surveillance of chronic wasting disease in deer.
Wildlife Conservation Day group photo from 2024.

The student-led Zoo and Wildlife Society at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine hosted their second annual Wildlife Conservation Day featuring a diverse set of speakers.
A young porcupine being treated for sarcoptic mange; Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Hospital.

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Check out this new paper led by Cornell zoological medicine resident Dr. Laura St. Clair and an interdisciplinary Cornell team studying sarcoptic mange in wild North American porcupines.
A Great Blue Heron hunting for fish in a lake by Christine Bogdanowicz

Cornell’s Dr. Krysten Schuler and David Dayan discuss how pollution in the environment - from lead to PFAS - affects wildlife, and how birds are threatened on multiple fronts.