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The Office of Marketing and Communications services CALS faculty, staff and students by providing news and feature coverage of research, teaching and extension and outreach news. We write and edit a wide variety of content for the Cornell Chronicle as well as our college-wide publications, websites and social media platforms.

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New study reaffirms nutrient mass balance tool for dairy sustainability
For over 20 years, Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program has helped dairy farms responsibly manage manure to meet crop nutrient needs while improving farm profitability and sustainability. Key to this success is the whole-farm nutrient...
  • Environment
  • Water
  • Dairy
Alejandro Calixto and Mike Deutsch posting with award.

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Deutsch Receives Excellence in IPM Award
A board-certified entomologist and retired technical director for Arrow Exterminating Company of Lynbrook, NY, Deutsch was recognized for his more than four decades of service to New York’s structural pest industry, as well as his willingness to...
  • New York State Integrated Pest Management
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CCE podcast discusses avian influenza, backyard chickens and biosecurity
The recent resurgence of avian influenza – fueled by the return of migratory waterfowl that carry, but are typically not impacted by the virus – is causing significant damage to both commercial poultry and wild bird populations worldwide, while...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
Thomas Urban, research scientist in the College of Arts and Sciences, uses ground-penetrating radar to search for communal graves at Pilgrim Hot Springs in Alaska, in collaboration with employees of the National Park Service and Kawerak, Inc.

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Radar, AI identify Alaska Native Spanish flu victims burial site

A Cornell research scientist used ground-penetrating radar and AI modeling to locate the communal graves of approximately 93 victims of the Spanish influenza at Pilgrim Hot Springs in Alaska.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
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Study trips to advance engaged learning experiences in global development
A new style of engaged courses in Global Development will allow students to apply classroom-based lessons in real-world development contexts. Launching in the fall semester, Global Development will offer two immersive faculty-led study trips...
  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development