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The anticipated celebration of America’s Independence Day calls for an annual celebration full of fireworks, grilling, and cheers. Amid the fun-filled chaos, however, sometimes lies the overlooked care of pets that may have a contrasting and much more fear-filled perspective of the Fourth of July. Dr. Christine Rutter, a clinical associate professor of emergency and […]

My name is Meghan Chung, I’m a fourth-year veterinary student focusing in zoological medicine. I am currently rotating through the May Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at Lees McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina.  The May Wildlife Rehabilitation Center annually admits more than 1,500 injured or orphaned wildlife patients from the western part of North Carolina. […]

You might have heard that dogs “don’t sweat.” This is not true, but in a way it’s a useful myth—because, while dogs do have sweat glands, they don’t keep cool by sweating like humans do. 

Wildlife experts have developed a regional computer model – and user-friendly app – that predicts counties in 16 states where wildlife managers should target their surveillance of chronic wasting disease in deer, helping them conserve scarce money and labor resources.   

Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Dr. Fred Metzger, representatives from Mars, Inc, VCA Metzger Animal Hospital, the Animal Science Department, and the Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Department celebrated the completion of the inaugural VCA Metzger Animal Hospital Internship, six pre-veterinary CAS students from ANSC (1) and VBSC (5) presented case studies and celebrated the end of […]

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Hannah CarterPhotos by Alyssa Moore, School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences Hannah Carter, a graduate student at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS), has received an $80,000 research grant from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to study sirtuins, a type of protein known to reduce signs of aging that […]

This podcast features Jutta Sielhorst discussing ‘Success rates and factors influencing pregnancy outcome after 464 transvaginal ultrasound-guided twin reductions in the mare‘ and Mandi de Mestre discussing ‘Does inbreeding contribute to pregnancy loss in Thoroughbred horses?‘

For 2023-2024, CTI funded seven projects, including one from Jeanne Moseley (MPH Program, Public & Ecosystem Health): “The Art of Global and Public Health: Integrating the Arts and the Humanities into Global and Public Health Curriculum and Education at Cornell.”

In a significant leap forward for veterinary care, on June 26 the Reassessment Campaign on Veterinary Resuscitation (RECOVER) Initiative