Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine

The New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University is a college of veterinary medicine at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. It was founded in 1894. It is the first statutory college of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. History 1868: Cornell becomes the first American university to include a professor of veterinary medicine 1876: Cornell awards Daniel Elmer Salmon the first D.V.M. degree ever given in the United States 1894: The College of Veterinary Medicine is established by an act of the New York state Legislature 1896: The college officially opens 1910: Florence Kimball becomes the first woman in the United States to receive her doctorate in veterinary medicine. Seven of the first 11 women to become licensed veterinarians in the United States were Cornell graduates. 1912: Kirksey L. Curd became Cornell's first Black doctor of veterinary medicine graduate. 1942: Patricia O'Connor Halloran, class of 1939, becomes the first female zoo veterinarian, working at the Staten Island Zoo 1970: The Coggins test, a blood test to identify if a horse is a carrier of equine infectious anemia, a viral disease found in horses, is developed by Dr. Leroy Coggins and colleagues. Early 1980s: The James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health develops the modified live-virus vaccine for canine parvovirus type 2, still in use today. 2005: Cornell launches one of the first comprehensive shelter medicine programs in the country, supported by Maddie's Fund, called Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University. 2006: A Cornell horse named Twilight serves as genome donor for the international Equine Whole Genome Sequencing Project. 2015: Research at the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health leads to the first puppies born by in vitro fertilization. 2020: The college established the Cornell COVID-19 Testing Laboratory in collaboration with the Cayuga Health System to provide in-house COVID-19 tests for Cornell staff, students, and faculty, allowing the university to reopen and hold in-person study during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2022, it passed 2 million tests. Academic programs The College of Veterinary Medicine is an internationally recognized institution of public health, biomedical research, and veterinary medicine education. It is one of 30 veterinary colleges in the country, and one of only three in the Northeastern United States.