Two researchers have received five-year, $2.5 million Director's Pioneer Awards from the National Institutes of Health, and three other major grants were awarded to faculty members, the NIH announced Sept. 24. (Sept. 24, 2009)
Four members of the College of Veterinary Medicine were honored at the Upstate New York Branch of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Sept. 16 in Syracuse, N.Y. (Sept. 21, 2009)
Two researchers from Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine will study heart fibrillation as part of a 19-researcher team that was awarded $10 million from the National Science Foundation. (Sept. 15, 2009)
Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine is using a new approach to teach some clinical procedures: self-paced training DVDs. The first focuses on peripheral nerve blocks in dogs. (Sept. 1, 2009)
Veterinarians at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals are looking for healthy Labrador retrievers to undergo a free comprehensive health screening and contribute to the hospital's DNA bank. (Aug. 19, 2009)
Events this week include Cornell programs at Empire Farm Days; educational gorge walks in nearby state parks, and a play about Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.
African village dogs are directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs, according to a Cornell-led genetic analysis of hundreds of semi-feral village dogs in Egypt, Uganda and Namibia. (Aug. 3, 2009)
Paul Bowser, professor of aquatic animal medicine at the Vet College, has received a career achievement award, the highest award from the American Fisheries Society Fish Health Section. (June 30, 2009)
President David Skorton will visit Ethiopia, Tanzania and Rwanda during a two-week trip, beginning July 1. Skorton will speak at the Bahir Dar University graduation and discuss opportunities for collaboration. (June 25, 2009)
