Spotlights
News
October 08, 2026
Like a dark cloud of pestilence spreading across the globe in a science fiction movie, a highly contagious, fatal strain of avian influenza is continuing its death march across the globe, infecting wild birds, poultry, dairy cattle, and mammals from pole-to-pole, sometimes with massive mortalities.
News
October 06, 2026
Three bald eagles, including an adult and two juveniles, were reintroduced to the wild in New York's Southern Tier last month.
Blog
October 05, 2026
Cornell's Zoo and Wildlife Society (ZAWS) shares about their first event of the semester, featuring five incredible panelists, Drs. Steven Osofsky, Noha Abou-Madi, Cynthia Hopf-Dennis, Jan Lovy, and Jennifer Bloodgood.
Blog
September 11, 2026
Over the summer, I had the exciting opportunity to extern with Michigan’s State Wildlife Pathologist. The pathologist, state wildlife veterinarian, and numerous biologists and conservation officers all work for the Department of Natural Resources...
Blog
September 10, 2026
Even in retirement, Dr. Rodman Getchell still had 60 round goby samples waiting in a university freezer....
Blog
August 17, 2026
In the heart of Malaysia, surrounded by the calls of hornbills and the hum of lab equipment, I found myself not in a jungle, but in a lab, holding a vial that could hold the key to wildlife conservation: stem cells....
Blog
July 08, 2026
Dr. Jan Lovy shares the journey that brought him to Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, where he now serves as an associate professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health.
Blog
July 06, 2026
Do you ever wonder what an internship or residency in wildlife health is like? Or what approaches veterinarians took to get into such a program? If yes, keep reading...
Video
July 01, 2026
As an invited guest speaker at an African Parks Biodiversity and Science Support Research & Conservation Meetup on June 24, 2026, Dr. Steve Osofsky presented a talk entitled "Beyond Fences: Policy Options for Wildlife, Livelihoods and Transboundary Animal Disease Management in Southern Africa."
Video
July 01, 2026
Carmen Smith ’17, DVM ’21, wildlife pathology fellow with the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health, is working in the lowland forests of Nepal—home to nearly a quarter of the world’s greater one-horned rhinos—to investigate why rhino mortality has been increasing despite major reductions in poaching.