Cornell's Farm Animal Hospital hosts one-day cattle seminar
The Farm Animal Hospital of Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine hosted a free, one-day seminar Dec. 8 to inform dairy cattle owners about diagnostics and treatments available at the hospital. (Dec. 17, 2007)

Researchers seek clues to how tuberculosis infects cells
Cornell researchers are using advanced genetic techniques to better understand the relationship between the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and the human immune system defense cells that engulf them. (Dec. 12, 2007)

Embryonic cells implanted into damaged hearts prevent arrhythmias
When Cornell researchers and others transplanted living embryonic heart cells into cardiac tissue of mice that had suffered heart attacks, the mice became resistant to cardiac arrhythmias, thereby avoiding one of the most dangerous and fatal consequences of heart attacks. (Dec. 5, 2007)

Cornell researchers use sperm biomechanics to power nanorobots
Researchers at Cornell are working to use the same energy that drives sperm to power nano-scale robots or to deliver chemo drugs or antibiotics, for example, to targeted sites within the body. (Dec. 3, 2007)

CU researcher develops realistic cancer growth models
Claudia Fischbach-Teschl's lab creates realistic experimental tumor models, which may lead to better drug therapies or even a cure. (Nov. 27, 2007)

New projects include apple, biofuel and invasive species research
The USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service will fund 94 new programs this year, including projects that teach youths to cook to promote healthy eating. (Oct. 30, 2007)

Smith, Riis win state Veterinary Medical Society awards
Two veterinarians in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, Donald F. Smith and Ronald Riis, were honored by the New York State Veterinary Medical Society Sept. 29 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Oct. 16, 2007)

Cornell veterinary technician adopts former racehorse
Molly Copeland has adopted an injured racehorse named Watchmon, with hopes of breeding him and donating the stud fees to a foundation that grants wishes for terminally ill children. (Aug. 16, 2007)

Cornell vet students, faculty help keep area pets healthy
The Southside Community Center's Well Pet Clinic, run by students and faculty in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, serves healthy pets and their owners on the second Wednesday of every month. (July 17, 2007)

Dean Donald Smith speaks on 'Changing Veterinary Medicine'
The feminization of veterinary medicine is due to far fewer people applying to vet school, and the rate of decline is more visible among men than women, says Donald F. Smith, dean of the Vet College. (June 12, 2007)

Why women become veterinarians but not engineers
In a Cornell Perspectives piece, visiting scholar Rachel Maines suggests some reasons why women are pouring into veterinary science in record numbers nationwide but not into engineering. (June 12, 2007)

Deadly fish virus VHSV spreading throughout Great Lakes Basin
The viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus has been identified in 19 fish species in the Great Lakes Basin and is approaching epidemic proportions, says Paul Bowser, professor of aquatic animal medicine. (May 17, 2007)

Incoming Vet College dean talks about priorities for the college
Professor Michael Kotlikoff, incoming dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, discusses research, trends and the hospital for animals. (May 16, 2007)

Cornell establishes Center for Reproductive Genomics
The center will focus on the genetics of infertility, combining basic and clinical research in reproductive sciences on Cornell's Ithaca campus and at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. (May 9, 2007)

Vet College online videos take the anxiety out of caring for pets
A new Cornell educational program, Partners in Animal Health, is offering state-of-the-art videos with 3-D animations on a variety of pet-care topics, including trimming a cat's claws and giving insulin to a diabetic cat. (May 7, 2007)

Prenatal toxicity linked to immune dysfunctions in later life
A Cornell researcher has found that people who had been exposed to prenatal toxins and develop later-life diseases have in common an imbalanced immune system and hyperinflammatory responses. (May 2, 2007)

Michael Kotlikoff is named dean of Vet College
Michael I. Kotlikoff, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, has been named dean of the veterinary college, effective July 1. (April 26, 2007)

Vet Jim Richards -- Cornell's 'kitty' doctor -- dies at 58
The director of the College of Veterinary Medicine's Feline Health Center and a nationally recognized expert in cat care, James R. Richards, died April 24 following an April 22 motor vehicle accident. (April 25, 2007)

Melamine found in recalled pet food samples
Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine Dean Donald Smith confirmed the presence of a pet food contaminant, melamine, at a Washington, D.C., press briefing March 30. (April 4, 2007)

Scientists find melamine in recalled pet food samples
Concurrent with the announcement made by the FDA today, Cornell researchers at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center have confirmed that they also have identified melamine as a contaminant in multiple pet food samples. (March 30, 2007)

Cornell conducts tests to confirm toxins in recalled pet food
Cornell's Animal Health Diagnostic Center is conducting further tests to confirm the presence of toxins in recalled pet food and to explain the cause of fatal kidney failure in 15 cats and one dog. (March 27, 2007)

BCERF wins 2006 New York State Innovation award
Cornell's Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors has been recognized with a 2006 New York State Innovation in Breast Cancer Early Detection and Research Award. (March 26, 2007)

Campus closings did not close animal hospital
Feb.14 was an ordinary day at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals: Ten emergency visits, 62 patients, a thoroughbred horse giving birth. All this went on while a snowstorm closed the rest of the university at 12:30 p.m. (Feb. 21, 2007)

Veterinarians help rare Sumatran rhino relocate to Indonesia
Cornell veterinarians have been helping manage the health-care challenges of this historic animal relocation, including vaccinating the captive-born rhino against Sumatran diseases for which he has no immunity. (Feb. 16, 2007)

Vet College gets grant to develop fish virus diagnostic technique
Cornell researchers are fine-tuning a new technique they developed to rapidly detect a deadly fish virus that has increasingly appeared in the Great Lakes and neighboring waterways. (Feb. 14, 2007)

Wildlife conservation project will send CU researchers to Zambia
Cornell is partnering on a wildlife conservation project in Zambia that saves animals' lives by addressing a powerful threat: Poverty and hunger that force families to poach or clear-cut forests to create temporary farm fields. (Feb. 7, 2007)

Avian flu virus unlikely to spread through water systems
Cornell researchers studied a virus related to the avian influenza virus to see whether a hypothetical mutated form of H5N1 could infect people through drinking and wastewater systems. (Jan. 2, 2007)