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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.

We coordinate with the Cornell Office of Media Relations to distribute news releases and tip sheets for reporters and other entities. We also assist journalists who request information or interviews of CALS' personnel.

If you are a member of the media seeking to contact a CALS researcher, staff member or student, please contact us at cals-comm [at] cornell.edu (cals-comm[at]cornell[dot]edu).

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Ronnie Coffman to chair WACCI’s International Scientific Advisory Board
At a stakeholder engagement meeting April 12 hosted by the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), Ronnie Coffman took the helm as chairman of WACCI’s International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB), reinforcing the organization's...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development
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COMM Updates - 4/16/2024
Events Join us for COMMColloquium Friday, April 19, at 1:00 pm in 160 Mann Library Building. Visiting Associate Professor Bolin Cao (Shenzhen University) will present “ Understanding Human-Chatbot Interaction: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and...
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What’s behind canned wine’s rotten egg smell? Cornell team IDs culprit

Cornell food scientists are working with wineries, manufacturers and New York state to eliminate the “off” aroma in some canned wines by subtly altering the product’s formulation and packaging.

  • Food Science
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State-of-the-art techniques to reduce climate-warming cow methane

New climate-controlled animal respiration stalls in CALS – the only ones currently operating in the U.S. – will allow researchers to measure, verify and monitor methane and other gas emissions from cows.

  • Animal Science
  • Climate Change
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AI, robotics speed identification of plant disease resistance, tame weeds

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section