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Are we asking the right questions to prevent tick-borne illnesses?

Research on prior surveys finds very few people have been asked why they chose not to take preventative actions.

  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Entomology
  • Disease
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Field Note

Elizabeth Zhang ’26 is a senior in Animal Science with a concentration in pre-veterinary medicine. Currently she is an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Heather Huson , associate professor of animal genetics. We sat down together to talk...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Genetics
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Monique Rivera, an assistant professor of entomology at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been honored as one of the nation’s top young researchers in the fruit and vegetable industries by Fruit Growers News. Rivera began...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Entomology
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When researchers "rewilded" lab mice to large, enclosed fields, even well-established anxieties in the mice disappeared.

  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Animals
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Field Note

by Sydney Zarb ’27 As an undergraduate in Cornell Animal Science, with the goal of becoming a veterinarian, I want to more deeply understand solutions that benefit cows, the environment and the people that depend on them. I am particularly...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Bacteria
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