Dr. Jarra Jagne received the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Daniel Elmer Salmon Award for Distinguished Alumni Service in a ceremony on October 10, 2025.  This award recognizes the contributions of Dr. Jagne to the profession, the College and community.

Dr. Jagne is a native of The Gambia in West Africa and earned her DVM degree at Cornell in 1990. After returning to her home country as a veterinary and project officer she contributed to the advancement of livestock production and especially the economic status of women.

She subsequently returned to the U.S. and completed a residency program at the University of Pennsylvania gaining diplomate status in the American College of Poultry Veterinarians.

She was appointed to the Veterinary College at Cornell where she managed the avian diagnostic laboratory and also assisted the then Babcock subsidiary of Hendrix Genetics in management of breeding stock.  She has served as a senior veterinary advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development working on avian influenza.