2010 College of Veterinary Medicine News Archive

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2010 CVM News: $10 million gift establishes canine genomics program
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-09-15)
This news item is about: Cornell University President David Skorton has announced a $10 million anonymous gift for the College of Veterinary Medicine from an anonymous donor to establish the world's first canine genomics program. The largest single gift in the college's history, the gift will support investments in three areas: endowed professorships and faculty start-ups, DNA sequencing, and the DNA Bank, which is an archive of DNA and medical information that defines inherited diseases. Research conducted through the program will further scientists' understanding of and ability to fight cancer and other diseases that attack animals and humans.
2010 CVM News: Pioneer and leader in veterinary medicine recognized by College's Alumni Association
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-09-18)
This news item is about: Stephen Ettinger DVM ’64 will be recognized with the Daniel Elmer Salmon Award for Distinguished Alumni Service, given annually by the Alumni Association of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. To be presented at the New York State Veterinary Conference, on October 2, 2010, the award recognizes and honors Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine graduates who have distinguished themselves in service to the profession, their communities or to the College.
2010 CVM News: Molecule effectively starves cancer cells
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-09-13)
This news item is about: Overcoming an addiction is most often the healthy choice. But for cancer cells, their addiction to glutamine is life-giving. Turbo-charged engines capable of metastasizing in even the most difficult of conditions, cancer cells find their strength in glutamine, an amino acid important to protein metabolism and a key nutrient for the growth of cancer cells. Researchers have long believed that starvation – breaking the glutamine addiction – may be an effective strategy in the fight against some cancers, but for decades have struggled with how to accomplish this feat.
2010 CVM News: Head farrier joins college [Steve Kraus]
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-10-25)
This news item is about: Steve Kraus will join the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine as head farrier, effective November 1, 2010. He will continue the great work of Michael Wildenstein, who has been with Cornell since 1991, and has accepted an early retirement incentive offered by New York State.
2010 CVM News: Criticalist pioneers veterinary use of simulator technology [Daniel Fletcher]
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-10-25)
This news item is about: Most veterinarians would agree that trial and error has its place in clinical training. But not in the emergency room. When it comes to administering urgent care to stabilize an emergency case, there simply is no room for mistakes. One false move and a life can be lost. How can students be taught to handle real-time emergencies without endangering a critical patient’s well being? That was the need that Dr. Dan Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Emergency and Critical Care, set out to fill in designing a sophisticated “rescue dog” mannequin and software program—the first of its kind in veterinary medicine.
2010 CVM News: When fido needs a bath
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-09-08)
This news item is about: Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine students from SCAVMA and OTS will wash dogs and determine pet's Body Condition Scores this Sunday, September 12, from 11 am to 4 pm, in the College's Courtyard right off of Tower Road (and directly in front of Schurman Hall.) The cost will be $5. In addition, a bake sale will be held, to benefit World Rabies Day.
2010 CVM News: First-ever Cornell China Dairy Institute launches
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-09-08)
This news item is about: It's a match made in China. Chinese dairy veterinarians are interested in learning about American veterinary practices, and faculty at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine are eager to share information. After several months of discussions, the Cornell China Dairy Institute launched on September 6, 2010, in Sanhe City, Heibei province, 37 miles east of Beijing. (Read the opening ceremony remarks offered by Dr. Lorin Warnick.)
2010 CVM News: Fish expert wins award for Great Lakes fish disease science [Paul Bowser]
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-10-21)
This news item from the Cornell Chronicle is about: Cornell researcher Paul Bowser and Dave MacNeill, New York Sea Grant (NYSG) fisheries specialist, are the recipients of the first Sea Grant Association's Research to Application Award for the successful and continued real-world application of a Sea Grant-funded research project over the past 20 years. Bowser, professor of microbiology and immunology in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, and MacNeill were recognized at Sea Grant Week in New Orleans last week for their work on viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) -- which has caused significant mortality events in a wide array of fish species as well as restrictions on the movement of live fish in the Great Lakes Basin -- and applying it in nonacademic settings.
2010 CVM News: Veterinarians and technicians meet at annual conference
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-10-07)
This news item is about: From September 30 through October 3, the College of Veterinary Medicine and the New York State Veterinary Medical Society (NYSVMS) co-hosted the 2010 New York State Veterinary Conference at Cornell. Visitors from across the country and throngs of violet balloons filled the corridors of the Veterinary Medical Center, as the event attracted approximately 280 veterinarians, 75 technicians, 80 students, 49 speakers and nearly 40 vendors. Participants came from 22 states and Canada. (See more conference pictures.)
2010 CVM News: 2010 Chester Hartenstein DVM '45 Memorial Lecture Series
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-10-15)
This news item is about: Announcement of a talk by Joseph Kornegay titled, Translational lessons learned from a canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
2010 CVM News: Lecture series focuses on holistic and integrative wellness
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-10-07)
This news item is about: The first of the annual DeeDee Arrison Holistic and Integrative Wellness lectures is scheduled for October 23, 2010, at the College of Veterinary Medicine. The day-long event begins at 9 am. It will include educational sessions by leading authorities in the subject matter, lunch, and an afternoon and evening concert by rising stars of the Stradivari Society. The program is open to the public and admission is complimentary, although reservations are requested.
2010 CVM News: Unique collaboration holds potential for life-saving drugs for tuberculosis
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-10-07)
This news item is about: Dr. David Russell, of Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine, has established a paradigm-shifting collaborative relationship with Vertex Pharmaceuticals, of Cambridge, Mass., opening a door for novel tuberculosis (TB) drug discovery. Dr. Russell’s long-term goal is to help the many millions around the world who suffer from tuberculosis, the disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, by finding new compounds that can reduce the treatment time and also be effective against drug resistant TB. The collaboration will provide access to the pharmaceutical company’s drug library, comprised of hundreds of thousands of compounds. Many of these compounds have not yet been screened for anti-tuberculosis activity.
2010 CVM News: Researcher wins National Institutes of Health Director's Innovator Award [Julia Maria Felippe]
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-10-05)
This news item is about: Dr. Maria Julia Bevilaqua Felippe, associate professor of medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine, has received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. The $1.5 million grant is presented over five years to stimulate highly innovative research and support promising new investigators who are studying biomedical or behavioral research conditions. A diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Felippe will use the funds to challenge current thinking on a disease that renders people and horses highly susceptible to recurrent bacterial infections: Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID).
2010 CVM News: Forward thinking: College of Veterinary Medicine
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-11-17)
This news item is about: Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine is a leader in veterinary medical education, animal medicine, biomedical research and public health.
2010 CVM News: The journey from gene to organism through a kaleidoscope of perspectives
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-11-24)
This news item is about: Fifteen faculty from disciplines across the university will combine their experience as research educators, thanks to a $659,529 training grant from the National Institutes of Health encouraging the exploration of vertebrate developmental genomics. Awarded to Dr. John Schimenti, the grant will support three graduate students who have demonstrated an interest in both the subject and the collaborative research approach, engaging a new generation of scientists in multidisciplinary research with the potential to improve our understanding of how genes guide development. Spanning the lifetime of an organism, development encompasses processes from inception and growth to aging and death. Developmental genomics looks at development through a genetic lens, and can help unlock the molecular mysteries of how cancer grows and spreads.
2010 CVM News: Staff Notes: a conversation with Connie Park
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-11-17)
This news item is about: An interview with Connie Park, a human resources recruiter in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Park, born in Korea, talks of growing up in Maryland, moving to the Big Apple and becoming part of the Cornell community and all it has to offer.
2010 CVM News: New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory opens
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-10-01)
This news item from the Cornell Chronicle is about: Cornell ushers in a new era of disease diagnosis and prevention Friday, Oct. 1, with the opening of the state-of-the-art New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory to monitor human and animal disease. A grand opening of the facility is slated for Oct. 1, 1-1:30 p.m.; the public is invited to attend.
2010 CVM News: Aquatic specialists apply deadly fish virus research to real world
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-11-30)
This news item is about: Fish health specialist Dr. Paul Bowser of Cornell’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology recently received his third award in the last four years. Bowser and his collaborator, New York Sea Grant Fisheries Specialist Dave MacNeill, accepted an award for Extension and other Outreach Efforts after using recent research results on Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus to educate the public and promote environmental stewardship. The Sea Grant Association bestowed its first “Research to Application Award” on October 20th 2010, honoring the duo’s successful and continued application of SGA-funded research to help solve problems in the real world.
2010 CVM News: Microbiology and Immunology Department to welcome new chair [Avery August]
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-03-25)
This news item is about: Avery August, Professor of Immunology in the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences at Penn State University, will lead the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Microbiology & Immunology (M&I), effective July 1. Dr. August will succeed David Russell, Professor of Molecular Microbiology, who has been at the helm of M&I since 2000. In the following interview, Dr. August shares his thoughts about the upcoming transition, his background, and his vision for the department.
2010 CVM News: Alumni Q&A with Vet College Dean Michael Kotlikoff
Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2010-11-17)
This news item is about: Dr. Michael Kotlikoff, the Austin O. Hooey Dean in the College of Veterinary Medicine, discusses class expansion and capital planning, renewing faculty, Cornell University Veterinary Specialists (CUVS), clinical advances, canine genomics, and international programs.