This news item from the Cornell Alumni Magazine is about: Animal shelters—“dog pounds”—used to be America’s dirty secret. In 1970, the nation euthanized 24 million shelter pets, but this year the number is projected to drop to 3.7 million. Philanthropist David Duffield ’62, MBA ’64, hopes that as early as 2015, no healthy, adoptable animal will die for lack of a home—and he’s invested $300 million to make it happen. A key part of realizing this “no-kill nation”: helping vet schools train future DVMs to address the medical and behavioral needs of shelter animals— and Cornell’s Vet college is on the cutting edge of this shelter revolution.