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June 8, 2023

Dr Alistair Hayden, assistant professor of practice of Public and Ecosystem Health at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, discusses the impacts of Canada's wildfires in the Ithaca region and New York state, noting how current weather patterns are...

June 2, 2023

For each person killed by wildfire flames, around 100 will die inhaling the smoke it produces Despite these alarming figures, national spending on smoke management is 600 times less than the budget allocated to fire suppression, mainly due to lack of awareness of the...

June 1, 2023

Zoonotic spillover — when diseases pass between animals and humans — is a major cause of disease and the primary cause of recent pandemics, including COVID-19 Scientists and practitioners from four continents will gather for a webinar that explores how strategic...

May 31, 2023

Nineteen faculty and professional staff members in Cornell’s four state contract colleges have been selected for the 2022-23 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence This year, all nominees put forth by Cornell won...

May 2, 2023

Gen Meredith, professor of practice in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Public and Ecosystem Health and associate director of the Cornell Master of Public Health (MPH) Program, has received the 2023 Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship...

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...

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...

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...

February 6, 2023

In December 2021, a team of Cornell University MPH Program faculty were awarded a 2021-22 Engaged Research Grant from the David M Einhorn Center for Community Engagement The group, led by Lara Parrilla, lecturer and community and academic partnership manager, was one...

January 24, 2023

When Dr Lorraine Francis, associate professor of practice with the MPH Program, arrived in Ithaca in 2019, she brought to the Cornell community 18 years of experience in Caribbean public health, including tracking disease outbreaks and helping Caribbean nations prepare...