Registration and parking information for NYS-VC attendees
The New York State Veterinary Conference starts this week October 10-12, 2025 at Cornell University CVM! Co-hosted by the Cornell University CVM and NYSVMS, our conference features a diversity of species and professional development tracks with something for everyone. Registration hours onsite are: Friday, October 10 7AM-5PM, Saturday, October 11 7 AM-5PM and Sunday, October 12 7:30AM-3PM.
Cornell awarded NSF grant to build AI-ready living lab for agriculture
Cornell University has been awarded a portion of a $2 million planning initiative from the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish AI4Ag, a national testbed for artificial intelligence in agriculture. The AI4Ag project aims to create an “AI-ready living lab” within the Cornell Agricultural Systems Testbed and Demonstration Site (CAST) for the Farm of the Future, operated under the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA), where researchers, students and industry partners can develop and safely test AI innovations under large, real-world farming and commercial-like conditions.
FTC vacates noncompete rule, shifts to case-by-case enforcement
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on September 5 voted 3-1 to vacate its 2024 final rule banning most post-employment noncompete agreements, formally ending the Biden administration initiative to eliminate such contracts nationwide. Generally, noncompete agreements restrict employees who leave a job from working in that field or for a competitor for a specific time period, in a certain geographic area.
ECFVG updates continue as new online platform launches
AVMA
For decades, the AVMA has evaluated the educational equivalency of graduates from non-AVMA Council on Education-accredited veterinary institutions through a four-step process administered by the Educational Commission on Foreign Veterinary Graduates (ECVFG). The four-step process involves verifying a candidate’s education, English proficiency, clinical science knowledge, and hands-on skills.
Universities are collaborating to study equine pregnancy loss
DVM360
Investigators studying equine pregnancy loss to better understand how bacterial infections can cause miscarriages have discovered the amniotic membrane may play a more significant role than previously thought. The research is a collaboration of investigators at Texas A&M University in College Station, the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, and could help lead to miscarriage prevention strategies.
Evaluating the role of stress biomarkers in predicting equine gastric
The Horse
The equine stomach has two parts: an upper (squamous) region lined with epithelial cells that form a protective barrier and a lower (glandular) region that produces gastric juices, mucus, and other molecules important to digestion. Normally, a mat of food buffers the gastric juices in the lower region, minimizing splashing onto the squamous lining. Still, ulcers can develop in either region—equine squamous gastric disease (ESGD) or equine glandular gastric disease (EGGD)—and sometimes both at once.
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