Goldstein graduated in 1973 from one of the nation's top veterinary schools, Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine.

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Last year, Dr. Marr, her doctoral candidate, Wan Yang, and Elankumaran Subbiah, a professor at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, sought to put the question to rest.

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