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April 13, 2023

In recognition of outstanding work from across the university, the David M Einhorn Center for Community Engagement has given Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards to 13 faculty members, one from each college and school New this year, these awards...

April 5, 2023

A College of Veterinary Medicine faculty member is a contributing author to UNICEF’s inaugural report on women’s nutrition, “Undernourished and Overlooked: A global nutrition crisis in adolescent girls and women” Elizabeth Fox '09, PhD '16, assistant...

April 4, 2023

It was 1994, and a new virus was killing racehorses in Australia Then it killed a horse trainer who was caring for his charges The virus, called Hendra after the Brisbane suburb where it first surfaced, is a relative of the measles virus Hendra virus has been...

March 28, 2023

In recognition of their outstanding scholarship and service, multiple members of the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) faculty have been granted named professorships at the November 2022 and February 2023 Cornell Board of Trustees...

March 8, 2023

Elsbeth Kane, MPH ’21, DVM ’23, first became interested in the role of veterinary medicine in public health while studying abroad in Kenya and Uganda as an environmental biology major at Columbia University “That was my first experience with the concept of...

February 16, 2023

A Cornell-led study is the first to report national, annual rates of sheltered homelessness over time across race and ethnicity and finds “staggering” disparities, showing Black and Indigenous Americans are far more likely to experience homelessness than other...

February 12, 2023

The new HBO show "The Last Of Us" is a whopper Climate change has fueled the rise of a new pathogen that has nearly wiped out humanity The cause of the infection is a bit...

January 31, 2023

White-tailed deer ­– the most abundant large mammal in North America – are harboring SARS-CoV-2 variants that once widely circulated but are no longer found in humans Whether or not deer could act as long-term reservoirs for these variants that have become...

May 11, 2021

As a Clinical Research Coordinator with the Solutions Science Lab at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Andreína Martin works with Latinx children and their Spanish-speaking families enrolled in clinical trials that measure nutrition and health outcomes Her...

May 4, 2021

When Emily McGraw joined the Learn Charter School Network in Chicago in January 2020, she had no idea how important her MPH degree would prove to be Before coming to Cornell, she has been a school principal in New York City, and now as Director of Curriculum and...

April 26, 2021

After graduating from the Cornell MPH program’s Infectious Disease Epidemiology track in May 2020, Shane Conyers began a PhD program in Epidemiology In addition to a full roster of coursework in his first year at Emory University, Conyers is already involved in two...

April 19, 2021

In his senior year of college, Kenny Escobar took a class on healthcare disparities that changed his trajectory He wanted to make a difference in communities “I’m glad I found out that public health was my path,” says Escobar “The MPH Program at Cornell was a...