Bonita S. Voiland, an executive at Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital in Syracuse, has been named assistant dean for resources, marketing, development and public affairs at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine effective July 1.

Announcing the appointment, Dean Franklin M. Loew said: "Ms. Voiland has the skills, experience and understanding to help raise the college's public profile. She knows how to reach those we seek to help as well as those in a position to assist us in our mission, and to help identify new sources of private philanthropy. Assistant Dean Voiland will be a key member of the Cornell Veterinary Medicine team for the 21st Century."

Voiland has been an executive at the Syracuse hospital since 1988, serving first as assistant vice president for communications and then as director of human resources. From 1981 to 1987 she was public relations director at Park Ridge Health System in Rochester, N.Y. Before that she served as assistant public relations director for the Rochester-Monroe County Red Cross. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the State University of New York at Albany and a Graduate Certificate from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

"I look forward to the challenge of communicating the excellence of America's premier veterinary medical college," Voiland said. "This college has unsurpassed strengths in the fields of animal health, public health, biomedical research and education, and the world needs to know about these resources as public funding of science and research declines."

Established in 1894 at Cornell with this country's first professor of veterinary medicine (1868) and the first D.V.M. graduate (1876), the Cornell college has educated more than 4,200 veterinarians. It is one of 27 veterinary schools in the United States and one of only three in the Northeast. Some 320 students are enrolled in the four-year D.V.M. program at the college, which also enrolls 120 graduate students in M.S. and Ph.D. programs. The college has 160 faculty and professional staff members.