2012 College of Veterinary Medicine News Archive
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Item 2012 CVM News: Alumna earns Association's highest award [Jeanne Barsanti '74]Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2012-09-18)This news item is about: Dr. Jeanne Barsanti ’74 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, in September 2012, the award recognizes and honors Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine graduates who have distinguished themselves in service to the profession, their communities, or to the College.Item 2012 CVM News: Cornellian's leadership skills help bobcat and the environment [Greg Costanzo '09]Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2012-09-01)This news item is about: America’s animal health system is the envy of the world. We care for companion animals like we care for children. Sanctuaries rescue farm animals. And when wildlife—like a bobcat that was likely beaten and left for dead in the desert heat—are suffering, people like Dr. Greg Costanzo ’09 scrub in on their day off.Item 2012 CVM News: The call of the wild [Sarah Cudney '16]Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2012-09-01)This news item is about: There’s something enthralling in the eyes of a raptor, a primal intensity that instills respect and makes it hard to look away. Such a spell sparked a similar spirit in Sarah Cudney ’16 when she first encountered raptors at Cornell as a high-school summer student, an experience that imbued her with a keen vigor for veterinary medicine.Item 2012 CVM News: Stopping the spread of cancerOffice of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2012-09-01)This news item is about: A cancer cell (bottom right) producing and shedding microvesicles packed with cancerous cargo. Shed microvesicles travel between cells and attach to a normal cell (upper left) to unload their cargo and begin turning the normal cell cancerous. Surprise packages sent by cancer cells can turn normal cells cancerous, but Cornell scientists have found a way to keep their cargo from ever leaving port. Published in Oncogene in January 2012, their study demonstrates the parcels’ cancer-causing powers, describes how they are made, and reveals a way to jam production. Treatments that follow suit could slow tumor growth and metastasis, the spread of cancer to new parts of the body.Item 2012 CVM News: Twin scholarships support future equine veterinariansOffice of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2012-09-01)This news item is about: Two aspiring equine veterinarians at Cornell will soon start horse-healing careers with less student debt, thanks to twin scholarship gifts. The Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) Endowment Board recently awarded two fourth-year students at the College of Veterinary Medicine $6,000 each to help offset the costs of education and ease their transition into equine practice.Item 2012 CVM News: Faculty joins peers to explore mysteries of science [Dwight D. Bowman]Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2012-10-12)This news item is about: Dr. Dwight Bowman is one of more than 50 scientists commissioned to explain scientific stumpers. In true fashion, Dr. Bowman shares an example of a parasite that can change the social (and even reproductive!) habits of its host.Item 2012 CVM news: Robin Davisson earns prestigious honorOffice of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2012-10-25)This news item is about: The American Heart Association recently awarded Dr. Robin Davisson one of the most prestigious scientific prizes of her discipline: the 2012 Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Award and Lecture. Presented since 1977, the international prize honors its namesake and is presented annually at the High Blood Pressure Research Scientific Sessions to a distinguished honoree from the field of hypertension.Item 2012 CVM News: Students to run volunteer veterinary clinic in Queens YMCA October 13Office of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2012-10-13)This news item is about: On Oct. 13, Cornell veterinary students and clinical faculty will join volunteer alumni and offer their third daylong animal wellness clinic in Queens at the Cross Island YMCA. The clinic, at 238-10 Hillside Avenue Bellerose, NY 11426,, will see dogs and cats from noon to 5pm.Item 2012 CVM News: Cornell first in U.S. offering new Salmonella Dublin test for milk and cattleOffice of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2012-10-30)This news item is about: Salmonella can cause serious disease on cattle farms, killing calves, causing cows to abort, contaminating raw milk, and harming humans along the way. While the cattle-adapted strain Salmonella Dublin creeps into the Northeastern US, veterinarians and farmers struggle to catch the bacteria in time to protect livestock because these bacteria often hide dormant in carrier animals, making the strain particularly hard to diagnose.Item 2012 CVM News: Symposium and poster session welcome graduate studentsOffice of Communications (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2012-10-05)This news item is about: Faculty and graduate students from the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) Graduate Program gathered at the College of Veterinary Medicine for the 10th Annual Biological and Biomedical Sciences Symposium to welcome the Fall semester. This event was organized by a group of graduate students and postdocs from the Baker Institute for Animal Health. Boasting a record number of attendees, the Symposium kicked off with a breakfast held in the College of Veterinary Medicine's Veterinary Education Center Atrium at 9:00AM, followed directly by a brief “Welcome Address” given by the now former Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education, Dr. Robert Gilmour. Six BBS graduate students then presented their research through a series of fifteen minute oral presentations. As determined by a panel of faculty judges, the following students won best oral presentations: