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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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Newly discovered ‘thunder’ of Atlantic sturgeon inspires awe

The finding gives New York state another tool to locate and understand the behavior of the endangered Atlantic sturgeon, an iconic species decimated by overfishing.

  • New York State Water Resources Institute
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Water
Installation of RCC Silage Pad at Tiashoke Farms

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New case study highlights innovative roller compacted concrete silage pad
A newly released case study by Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY Dairy Environmental Systems and project collaborators is showcasing the successful use of Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) for a large-scale dairy silage pad installation at Tiashoke Farms in...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Dairy
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Faces of Extension : Cheryl Bilinski
Cheryl Bilinski didn’t just change careers; she swapped a corporate paycheck for a mission to overhaul what lands on a child's lunch tray. As an agricultural economic development specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Harvest New...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Health + Nutrition
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Michael Moss Inspires NY Youth Institute Students to Question Food Giants
On a drizzling and cloudy March 20 morning at Cornell University, most of campus looked scant. But on the first floor of Toni Morrison Hall, nearly 100 high school students dressed in suits and blazers flipped through notes and downed cups of...