The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-vet-school/)
Over 150 students from Cornell, the U.S. and the world came together at the Cornell Vet School for 36 hours from Friday to Sunday afternoon to modernize one of the world’s oldest industries — agriculture.
By invoking technologies like AI, and innovations in computer science the organizers hope to address the shortages in agriculture predicted to manifest in the next decade.
The partnership between the veterinary college and Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse allows students to gain hands-on experience in zoological medicine as the primary medical care providers for the zoo’s 275 species.
“Destro was always friendly and fun, but he could switch gears in a moment to be the full-on predator that he was trained to be,” Officer Erion said.
Despite being the symbol of the Democratic Party, donkeys are often stereotyped as stubborn and are treated merely as livestock. The fourth Annual Donkey Welfare Symposium, held from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 at the College of Veterinary Medicine, aimed to improve audience’s knowledge of the animal through informative demonstrations, lectures, and hands-on laboratories.
“We are thrilled that this investment will help to reduce the financial burden on a number of families pursuing life-changing veterinary procedures,” Petrie said.
The College of Veterinary Medicine hosted its 50th annual Open House on Saturday. The event is an opportunity for the Ithaca community to explore veterinary medicine and learn more about careers in animal science.
Cornell researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine have recently published the largest genetic study of dogs to ever be completed. Adam Boyko, assistant professor of biomedical sciences, is the senior author of the paper. He said this study would not have been possible without the Cornell Veterinary Biobank, a collection of samples that includes the DNA of over 10,000 dogs from around the world. “It’s a really great resource for research,” Boyko said. “If you need to get sample sizes that are beyond the capabilities of your lab, you can use the resources that [the biobank] has and much more quickly scale up studies to help you make discoveries.”
Because the researchers had access to the biobank’s samples, they were able to design a study that was vastly different from most genetic analyses of dogs, according to Boyko.