The Dorothy Russell Havemeyer Foundation Fellowship Program at Cornell University operated continuously from 1985 - 2024, providing support for short-term educational experiences in academic equine medicine for veterinary students.  Fellowships were offered in the Equine Genetics Center in the laboratory of Dr. Doug Antczak at the Baker Institute.  The purpose of the Fellowship was to enable students with an interest in research careers to participate actively in cutting-edge investigations in equine medicine.

Havemeyer Fellows undertook mentored research projects,  assisted with routine herd health treatments, clinical reproduction, or field studies.  Laboratory research included the Horse Genome Project, investigations of equine pregnancy immunology, studies of immunity to equine herpes virus, and equine stem cell biology, and pathogenesis studies of equine liver-tropic viruses, such as equine hepacivirus and equine parvovirus-hepatitis.