Spotlights
Video
July 19, 2019
How does the biobanking process work? This video, produced by the Cornell Veterinary Biobank, explains how!
Blog
June 17, 2019
When the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab investigates mortalities in wildlife, our specially trained pathologists use diagnostic tools to crack the case.
Announcement
May 31, 2019
Cornell Wildlife Health Center team members recently received two Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future grants. Dr. Martin Gilbert and colleagues and will be exploring the effects of human-leopard interaction on food security and public health in Nepal, and Dr. Krysten Schuler and team will test an awareness campaign that promotes non-lead ammunition to reduce the threat of lead toxicity to people and ecosystems.
Video
May 02, 2019
The Cornell Wildlife Health Center co-hosted "Feeding the World Without Devouring It - A Planetary Health Symposium," a lively discussion on food, food security, and environmental stewardship. Guest speakers came from diverse walks of life to share their experiences and perspectives.
Blog
April 24, 2019
Cornell's Dr. Drew Harvell discusses how oceans and the life forms they support are under siege, threatened by a formidable collection of forces that cause both sudden mass mortalities and a slow degradation of biodiversity.
For Your Information
April 19, 2019
Isabel Jimenez, a 4th-year Cornell veterinary student, is the lead author on the paper "Isolation of Rabies Virus from the Salivary Glands of Wild and Domestic Carnivores during a Skunk Rabies Epizootic" in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases.
Blog
April 12, 2019
Snake Fungal Disease (SFD) is caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola and it poses a significant threat to wild snakes in the eastern United States. First discovered in 2006 in a declining New Hampshire population of timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus), SFD has now been recorded in over a dozen species.
Video
April 09, 2019
Created by our own Cornell DVM student Benjamin Jakobek, class of 2020, this five-minute film showcases Cornell veterinary students in their final year sharing how their wildlife-related experiences at Cornell have enriched their learning, broadened their perspectives, and helped them discover new career paths incorporating wildlife health and conservation.
Announcement
April 01, 2019
Dr. Steve Osofsky, Director of the Cornell Wildlife Health Center, was named a National Geographic Explorer after receiving a grant to reconcile conflicts between wildlife conservation and livestock agriculture in southern Africa.