Extension
As the cooperative extension service for New York State, veterinary faculty and extension staff facilitate outreach programs for the community and State of New York, conduct research, and perform services involving disease prevention, production quality control, food and farm safety and animal well-being. For example, the International Duck Research Cooperative conducts scientifically based research on diseases, nutrition and management of ducks.
Cornell's Animal Health Diagnostic Center, located on the Ithaca campus, has been a leader in animal health research for decades. The Center is a crucial resource for diagnosing mad cow disease, foot and mouth disease and avian flu.
Cornell Secures $22 Million State Grant for Veterinary School Expansion and they were originally going to us the $22 million dollars to renovate Cornell’s veterinary research tower but there is not enough money for all the renovations they want to do. Instead Cornell is going to use the money to expand their class size. Right now Cornell has a class size of 102 and with this grant they can expand it to 120 students. The construction for these expansions is supposed to begin in the summer of 2012 and be done by the summer of 2015.
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Famous quotes containing the word extension:
“We are now a nation of people in daily contact with strangers. Thanks to mass transportation, school administrators and teachers often live many miles from the neighborhood schoolhouse. They are no longer in daily informal contact with parents, ministers, and other institution leaders . . . [and are] no longer a natural extension of parental authority.”
—James P. Comer (20th century)
“A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)