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July 11, 2016

My name is Sabine Fischer-Daly and I am a member of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine’s class of 2018 American Samoa will be my home for two months this summer, where I will work as an Expanding Horizons fellow I recently completed my second...

June 30, 2016

Eating dirt can even become an addiction, an impulsive act hidden from others “With geophagy, the language of substance abuse is really common,” says Sera Young, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Nutrition in the Department of Population Medicine and...

June 29, 2016

An international, multi-institutional team of researchers that included Guillaume Lambert, a Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in Applied and Engineering Physics at the College of Engineering, has developed a low-cost, rapid paper-based diagnostic system for...

June 28, 2016

Cornell nutritional sciences professors Julia Finkelstein and Saurabh Mehta are leading an international team assembled by the WHO to study the risks of Zika virus transmission through breast milk Finkelstein and Mehta's previous research similar viruses and their...

June 24, 2016

By Krishna Ramanujan Originally posted in the Cornell Chronicle on June 21, 2016 Outbreaks of Zika and Ebola, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, foodborne diseases and chronic illnesses are constantly in the news, making comprehensive public health...

June 17, 2016

Dr Karel A Schat is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the College of Veterinary Medicine He has won numerous awards for his work in avian virology, including the Beecham Award for Research Excellence, the Upjohn Achievement...

May 26, 2016

Professor of Virology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the College of Veterinary Medicine Whittaker's research focus is on the entry of influenza viruses, rhaboviurses and coronaviruses into host cells In addition, Whittaker is a primary faculty...

May 26, 2016

Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine Ivanek's research focus is in public health and epidemiology of infectious and foodborne diseases Her epidemiological approaches...

May 26, 2016

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) believes that about 17% of Americans get sick from foodborne diseases each year The CDC estimates that 59% of these illnesses are caused by viruses and 39% are caused by bacteria The some of the most commons...

May 17, 2016

The Looming Threat of Avian Flu, a recent article by Mary Mckenna in the New York Times Magazine, delves into the crippling 2015 outbreak in the Midwest and the possible threat that this virus poses to the United States in the future Between December 2014 and June...

April 13, 2016

By Alexander J Travis So a guy walks into his doctor's office with a nasty-looking cut on his arm The doctor examines it and says, "Hmm, that's pretty bad Why don't you wait until gangrene sets in and then come back and see me" Sounds pretty ridiculous, right We don't...

April 7, 2016

Adam Boyko, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and his brother Ryan are the co-founders of the Cornell startup Embark Veterinary, a new canine genetics company that will release its first product later this spring...