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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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Field Note

Sean Murphy: Cultivating a passion for horticulture
Explain your research in a few sentences in layman’s terms. What crops do you research and if there are more than one, do you have a favorite? The EVADE Lab of Sarah Pethybridge and senior extension associate Frank Hay focuses on mitigating...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Electrons travel one of two routes in nano-biohybrid systems

Researchers have identified exactly what happens when a microbe receives an electron from a quantum dot: The charge can either follow a direct pathway or be transferred indirectly via the microbe’s shuttle molecules.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Biology
  • Solar
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Engaged Opportunity Grants Fuel Community-Engaged Learning for Students

The Einhorn Center is funding seven project teans from the latest round of Engaged Opportunity Grants.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape
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State of America’s birds: Population declines continue

More than five years after a landmark study in the journal Science showed that North American bird populations declined by nearly 30% since 1970, a new report finds that the concerning trend is continuing apace.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Biodiversity