Veterinary medicine is a public health profession. I’ll be the first to admit that it took a long time for me to come to this realization. Although I have (pretty much) always wanted to be a veterinarian, the focus throughout the greater portion of my life was on animal health. I wanted to save peoples sick pets, and offer them
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It wasn’t until I started traveling that I really appreciated beans and rice. But ever since I spent that month in Costa Rica, things have never been the same. What I love is that I can throw together a big batch at the beginning of the week and keep it in the fridge for future meals! Breakfast? Throw some fried
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During my summer in Rwanda, I spent most of my time quite literally at the interface between humans, wildlife (i.e. baboons) and domestic species (i.e. cattle). Because Rwanda suffers from severe overpopulation, virtually all of their “wild” places are in close proximity to human settlements. I saw this as a sort of glimpse into the future of the rest of the world, if the human
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This photo was taken at Sunken Meadow State Park (Long Island, NY). Sometimes I get so caught up in zig-zagging across the globe that I forget how beautiful nature can be, even in the midst of suburbia. Sunken Meadow in particular has always had a special meaning to me, as the beach that I frequented most often as a
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A tree frog hanging out-literally- on the underside of a leaf at Hacienda Baru Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica. These frogs are an iconic symbol of rainforest biodiversity, and their friendly, charismatic faces make them much more relatable than your average amphibian. Although IUCN does not currently consider them “endangered,” like all other neotropical species they are losing their habitat at
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Hi everyone, my name is Ginny Mulé, and I am a current second-year student at Cornell Veterinary School in Ithaca, NY. I participated in the DANTA Primate Behavior Field School on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica during the summer between my sophomore and junior years of college at Stony Brook University. Before DANTA, I had always had an interest
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