News
Announcement
September 17, 2018
The Animal & Human Health for the Environment And Development (AHEAD) Program was launched 15 years ago at the International Union for Conservation of Nature's World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa. Since then, the program has focused on interrelated challenges impacting land-use, animal and human health, wildlife conservation, and poverty alleviation.
September 13, 2018
The residents of the Belize Zoo have a brand-new veterinary clinic that will serve the medical needs of everyone from Sparks the tapir to Chiqui the jaguar. Members of the College of Veterinary Medicine celebrated this milestone with zoo staff when the clinic opened this summer.
Announcement
September 13, 2018
The Cornell Feline Health Center awarded a grant to continue investigations into the prevalence of canine distemper virus infection in the previously unstudied tiger populations of Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Nepal.
September 04, 2018
Chronic wasting disease has been found in deer in 23 states and two Canadian provinces. Wildlife agencies, conservation organizations, and the hunting industry are coming together to educate the public and highlight the need for investment in scientific research to better understand the disease.
September 01, 2018
As human populations increase around the world, people have increasingly encroached on wildlife habitats, sometimes causing previously unknown, deadly diseases to jump from animals to humans. To counter this threat, Cornell's Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreno and his lab study how the Nipah virus jumps from bats to people.
August 28, 2018
Cornell sets the bar for training vet techs in wildlife medicine. The Veterinary Technician Student Preceptorship in Wildlife Medicine is the first of its kind in the northeast U.S., and gives veterinary technicians-in-training concentrated wildlife-focused experience.
August 21, 2018
Honeybees are crucial for New York's agricultural economy. A new course at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine trains students on how to protect these important pollinators.
Blog
August 01, 2018
Cornell DVM student Fayme Cai '22 discusses her undergraduate thesis project investigating blood lead levels in New York City pigeons.
For Your Information
July 12, 2018
The NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, describes the origins of the field of planetary health, including Cornell's role.
July 11, 2018
A project to help reduce the environmental impacts of livestock grazing in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, while also benefiting snow leopard populations and local Pamir communities, received a grant from the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.