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March 24, 2016

Earlier this year, a video went viral about a man, Eric O’Grey, and his dog, Peety The video celebrates the love between people and their pets, but for Eric and Peety, it is much more According to NPR, who picked up the story in March, the duo helped save each...

March 24, 2016

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine Laboratory focus on genomic investigation of dogs as a model of genetic disease and evolutionary genetics Find his full bio...

March 24, 2016

Taking a One Health Approach to Public Health A Brief History of One Health One Health is a term used to describe the collective health of people, animals, and the environment in which we live, and speaks specifically to the effect each element has on the health of...

March 24, 2016

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine Laboratory focus in the etiology and treatment of obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes Graduate field memberships in Comparative Biomedical Sciences and Molecular and...

March 23, 2016

Gellert Family Professor in Food Safety, Department of Food Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Academic program focus on developing and communicating the scientific knowledge needed to prevent and control foodborne and zoonotic diseases caused by...

March 23, 2016

Faculty Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Assist Clinical Professor and Janet L Swanson Director of Shelter Medicine Population Medicine and Diagnostic Science, College of Veterinary Medicine Read her full bio...

March 23, 2016

International Professor of Plant Breeding and Director of International Programs of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Coffman also serves as Principal Investigator of the Agricultural Innovation Partnership, the Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat project,...

March 23, 2016

As the global population grows and human innovations abound, the world becomes a smaller yet more complex place With sufficient resources, one can get to almost any point in the world in some 48 hours With this mobility, ideas and commerce move rapidly Along with them,...

March 22, 2016

Bruce Calnek, DVM '55, the Steffen Professor Emeritus of Veterinary Medicine, and Karel Schat, PhD '78, professor emeritus in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology were awarded the 2015 Ezra Technology Innovator Award for their work as inventors of the...

March 22, 2016

Alex Travis, associate professor of reproductive biology in the Baker Institute for Animal Health in Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine, and other Cornell researchers succeeded in producing the first litter of puppies through in vitro fertilization This is not...

March 22, 2016

Dr Elizabeth Berliner, the Janet L Swanson Director of Shelter Medicine at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine, was a first responder in a local case of pet hoarding Twenty-eight unhealthy animals were seized from their Newfield home in November 2015 and...

March 22, 2016

MPH One Health Fellow, College of Veterinary Medicine Cecelia Madsen is an Ithaca native and graduate of Cornell University Prior to her work with the Cornell MPH program, she spent two years as an agriculture extension agent in Senegal, West Africa with the United...