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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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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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‘Share the joy’: Great Backyard Bird Count begins Feb. 13

The four-day event, co-sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is expected to attract nearly 1 million participants this year, providing a global snapshot just before migration.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Biodiversity
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Weiss and Provost awards honor outstanding faculty

Seven teaching faculty from across the university have been awarded Cornell’s highest honors for graduate and undergraduate teaching.

  • Neurobiology and Behavior
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Building a farm data and analytics platform that keeps things private
by Jackie Swift Farms generate huge amounts of data. A dairy farm in the United States, for instance, will typically produce data that tracks herd health and breeding, and milk production and quality, for a start. If the farm also grows its own...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • PRO-LIVESTOCK
  • Animal Science
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Grid sampling streamlines phosphorus loss risk assessments
Grid sampling– a process where fields are divided into small grids and a soil sample is taken from each section for individual analysis– can generally be very informative. It is capable of capturing variability throughout a field that may have...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops