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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).

Latest from the CALS Newsroom

Report

June 25, 2026

Smart Firegear Research Advances Firefighter Safety and STEM Education

Relevance Urban agriculture plays an increasingly important role in New York State’s food system, particularly in New York City where growers operate on limited land and serve diverse markets. Producers must identify crop varieties that perform...

Cornell Cooperative Extension

Mark Sorrells in front of small grains field

Spotlight

June 24, 2026

Cornell small grains breeding strengthens local and global food systems

For 12,000 years, wheat has been the bread of life; its discovery sparked the beginnings of agriculture, which enabled human flourishing across the globe. For farmers in New York’s humid climate, growing small grains like wheat, oats, barley and...

Campus Area Farms
Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
School of Integrative Plant Science

A large green tractor with a manure spreader stands in a green field, surrounded by rolling hills and a partly cloudy sky.

Report

June 23, 2026

Advancing Agricultural Profitability Through Precision, Pasture Innovation

Relevance Farmers across New York face rising input costs, labor shortages, and increasing environmental regulations that affect profitability. Small, dispersed fields and limited access to custom services can slow adoption of cost-saving...