Duffield Institute Service Dog Symposium

Dates: August 6 & 7, 2026

Location: College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Join us for a two-day in-person symposium focused on:

Bringing together people across the service dog community to share and learn about evidence-based practices and innovative research. Advancing the understanding of canine health and behavior to improve service dog training and welfare.Fostering collaboration between service dog professionals and partners to address challenges in the field. Who should attend?

Breeders

Handlers

Puppy Raisers...

The 25th Annual Biomedical & Biological Sciences Symposium—a day celebrating student research, alumni insights, and our vibrant scientific community will take place on August 19th at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Beverly Mock, PHD, cancer biologist from Bethesda, MD will provide the annual Douglas C. McGregor Research Lecture. Her talk “ From Population Biology Studies of Trypanosomes in Newts to Preclinical Cancer Trials in Mice" will take place from 10:30AM - 11:30AM in LH1.

Get an early start on your Cornell experience and graduate career! This orientation for international graduate and professional students will connect you with fellow global classmates and provide an introduction to the resources and tools you have available to you as an international student. Register by August 10.

Hosted by International Services, part of the Office of Global Learning

With programs around the globe, the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health strives to sustain a healthier world by developing and implementing proactive, science-based solutions to challenges at the interface of wildlife health, domestic animal health, human health and livelihoods, and the environment that supports us all.

This session focuses on insect pollinators — a group which includes bees, wasps, butterflies, beetles, flies, and ants — and on efforts to reverse the worrying population declines described in the popular press as part of the “insect apocalypse.” For the purposes...