The news item from Ezra Magazine is about: When Dr. Kristy Richards first told people she was looking at pet dogs as part of her cancer research, she’d get a lot of blank looks. “I’d tell my M.D. colleagues what I was doing, and they’d go, ‘… what?’” she says. Fortunately, the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine recognized a visionary when they saw one, recruiting Richards in 2015 to head up their nascent comparative cancer program. Now, Richards’ research creates buzz rather than bafflement.