Michael Stewart, Facilities Director 

Cindy Whittaker, Assistant to the Facilities Director 

Andrew Brooks, Facilities Manger 
Vet Education Center, Vet Medical Center, Clinical Programs, Teaching Dairy Barn, Ruffian Equine Medical Center, Sally Dunn Farm Building 

Jamie Crumb, Facilities Manager 
Baker Institute, Snyder Hill Facilities, McConville Barns, 

Peggy Emerson, Building Coordinator
Schurman Hall, Vet Education Center, Vet Center, Equine Park, Necropsy, Waste Management 

Eric Banta, Building Coordinator
Animal Heath Diagnostic Center, East Campus Research Facility, Veterinary Research Facility, Warren Drive Facilities, Marmota Building, Equine Drug Facilities 

Kate Davenport, Space Coordinator 
Academic & Event Scheduling, Space Inventory

Shane Trask, Project Coordinator 

David Kelley-Widmer, Project Coordinator 

Rahim Rustamov, Hazardous Materials Inventory Coordinator 

Anthony Walburger, CVM shipping & receiving 

The College of Veterinary Medicine is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and implementation of scientific knowledge to improve the health and well-being of animals and people. CVM Academic programming and college initiatives will have priority within the facility. The administration reserves the right to deny any request that does not support the college’s mission and values.

When using the Veterinary Medicine facility, you are agreeing to the following conditions:

1. You are a co-user within the college. CVM clinicians, researchers, and students utilize the facilities 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
2. Your event and its attendees comply with all CVM and Cornell University policies and procedures.
3. Your department and event coordinators are responsible for all event organization and arrangements; including the set-up, rentals, vendor communication, catering, transportation, and deliveries.
4. The event coordinator must be onsite to manage deliveries and set-up logistics. They must be present and available for the duration of the event. All event materials, food, decorations, and supplies need to be removed from the facility after the event.
5. Deliveries should be direct to the CVM Loading dock, 930 Campus Road. Vehicles have a 30-minute window to unload/load and cannot block the loading docks. Vendors must communicate directly with the event coordinator regarding set-up. 
6. When scheduling an event, please be mindful of current CVM events, religious holidays and observances, and other campus events. Please remember to add your event to the CVM internal events calendar. 

7.  CVM Event Coordinators: 
Confirm space needs (6 months in advance) with Kate Davenport.
All events must be scheduled through the Room Scheduler and, when necessary, 25LIVE:

25LIVE requirements may vary. Events require 25LIVE approval when:

• There is alcohol being served

•  The food is homemade

• Your attendance exceeds 50, with food

• The event is open to the public 

• The event is hosted by a student organization, with attendances 

• Live animals are on site

CU Event Coordinators:
Email Kate Davenport (klw226) to reserve and confirm space needs. Refer to 25LIVE requirements above.

8. CVM Facilities should be contacted at least 6 weeks in advance of an event, when the following services are needed:

Building Care
Building care coverage is dependent on the type of event, number of attendees, and catering criteria. Services include restroom maintenance, trash removal, recycling, and general cleanup. There is a building care fee of ($36.71/h) outside of normal hours. There is no regular building care coverage after 2:00 pm weekdays and no coverage on the weekends. 

Tables, Chairs, Poster Boards, High Tops  
CVM Office of Facilities can provide an event with the following:
         12 rectangular banquet tables (6ft)
        40 round plastic tables (4ft) 
         50 folding plastic grey chairs
         6 rolling poster boards (20’X6” – double sided) 
         10 high-top tables 
*If the set-up is extensive, and additional support is required, there will be a charge for services ($36.71 per hour/per person). 
*Event coordinators are responsible for renting linens, and/or additional supplies.

Atrium Furniture
It is strongly encouraged to leave furniture in its designated configuration. Removing furniture can be expensive, and disruptive to the CVM community. If removal is necessary, departments will be charged removal ($36.71 per person/per hour).

Exterior/interior banners
To hang banners, there is a charge of $77.64 per hour/per person 

9.  AV support is available to internal and external departments by emailing the Educational Support Services Team at vet-ess@cornell.edu. Services include, Microphones (additional), Projectors, Zoom Meetings/Recording, Recordings, Stage, Podium, or platform needs, Panels

10. Your department may be financially responsible for any facility damage.

Please contact the CVM Office of Facilities with any questions (607-253- 3750
or email Kate Davenport, klw226@cornell.edu.

Facilities request form:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:4b778832-64d6-3c27-ba51-fc18ac2ee99e 
   * Please download the form, and when fully completed, send to Kate Davenport (klw226). 

Privately owned pets are not permitted in the College. The only exceptions to this rule are guide dogs, other service dogs, and private pets being brought to the College clinics or hospitals as patients, or to class for instructor-sanctioned classroom use. Students bringing pets into the College in violation of the rules will be required to remove the animal from the College immediately.

Facilities & campus Services: https://fcs.cornell.edu/ 

Building Information and Documents: https://fcs.cornell.edu/services/building-information-documents

Event Scheduling (25LIVE): https://scheduling.cornell.edu/

Religious Holidays & Observances:   https://scl.cornell.edu/religiousholidays 

Parking & Transportation: https://fcs.cornell.edu/services/parking-transportation

Sustainability: https://sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/

Opened in 1993, the facility houses the main lecture halls and both wet and dry learning labs; both the Irving W. Wiswall Learning Laboratory and the Jerry and Darlene Bilinski Learning Laboratory.

The Flower-Sprecher Veterinary Library:

The Flower-Sprecher Veterinary Library resides in the first floor of the center. The veterinary library was founded on September 21, 1897, with a gift from Roswell P. Flower, former governor of New York. Originally named the Roswell P. Flower Library, it eventually was re-named the Flower-Sprecher Veterinary Library in 1992 to recognize Dr. and Mrs. Isidor I. Sprecher for their generous support of the College. The Library’s holdings represent an internationally recognized selection of materials in veterinary medicine as well as publications in the biomedical sciences. These resources support the College’s undergraduate, graduate, clinical, and research programs.

The Muenscher Poisonous Plants Garden:

Adjacent to the library and Schurman Hall is the Muenscher Poisonous Plants Garden, first established in the early 1960s by Dr. John M. Kingsbury with the help of his graduate students, who transplanted in many poisonous plants. The garden is used for teaching veterinary students about poisonous plants, and is also open to the public year-round, with tables and chairs available. Many  plants are labeled with signs that not only identify the plants but also explain their potential for poisoning. In 2014 many plants in the original garden were relocated to the Cornell weed garden on Caldwell Road to make way for a major construction project that removed the original garden. The current garden opened in 2018 and was heavily stocked with ornamental varieties, but the plants that a veterinarian would see on farm, including the toxic weeds, are gradually taking hold in the garden.

A three-story building, Schurman Hall houses classrooms, tutorial rooms, the modular resource center, research facilities, and offices. The 3,500-square-foot modular resource center is a visual library of self-contained learning stations that feature interactive learning resources.

Cornell's Teaching Dairy Barn is a state-of-the-art facility that serves the instructional livestock needs of Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Part of the University's 50-year campus master plan, the Teaching Dairy Barn is the inaugural building at the University's future Large Animal Teaching Complex, a 5-acre parcel that will serve the University's livestock endeavors from now on, freeing campus grounds for other academic facilities. Conveniently located within safe walking distance of campus, the site is ultimately expected to have a multipurpose livestock teaching arena (to include a livestock pavilion, additional teaching barns, and pasture area), equine metabolism unit, and a large animal research and teaching unit (LARTU).

The Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Hospital, an annex of the Cornell University Hospital for Animals, provides comprehensive medical and surgical care to sick, injured or otherwise impaired native wild animals

James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health A world-renowned center for canine and equine research, the Institute includes the Cornell Research Laboratory for Diseases of the Dog, the Center for Canine Genetics and Reproduction, the Laboratory of Immunology, and the Cornell Equine Genetics Center.

Cornell Equine Annex and Research Park On 165 acres, the park features boarding and other facilities for 150 horses, a half-mile track, stallion barn, and separate brood-mare barn with a laboratory for reproductive studies.

In addition, we have a number of satellite facilities:

Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists: Located in Elmont, NY, across the backstretch of the historic Belmont Park, Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists extends the reach of the Cornell Equine Hospital and provides excellent specialty care in state-of-the-art facilities to promote the health and well-being of horses.

Quality Milk Production Services hosts four regional laboratories (in Ithaca, Cobleskill, Canton, and Warsaw) that serve as an extension of the Animal Health Diagnostic Center, assisting in performing field and laboratory diagnostic evaluations of dairy problems, obtaining diagnosis, and promoting the control of other infectious diseases affecting the agricultural industry in New York State.

Cornell University Duck Research Laboratory is a research, service, and biologics production laboratory located on Long Island at Eastport, NY. IT is a national and international resource for information on duck production and disease control.

Cornell University Veterinary Specialists: https://www.cuvs.org/