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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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COMM Updates - 3/12/2025
Conferences Associate Professor Wunpini Mohammed presented “Building Liberatory Futures in Ghanaian Feminist Movements” at the Decolonizing Gender & Sexualities Conference at University of California, Berkeley. This project presents current...
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Large-scale investment in research needed to maintain U.S. agriculture

In the face of climate change, researchers estimate the U.S. investment in agricultural research needed to maintain productivity - finding it comparable to the investment made following the two world wars.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
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Renegotiated trade deal benefits US dairy producers

The United States and Canada have been fighting about milk for years, but new Cornell research suggests recent Canadian trade concessions removed some barriers to U.S. dairy exports.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
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Dynamic acoustics of hand clapping, elucidated

With high-speed cameras, researchers measured the physical forces involved in a handclap, with potential applications in bioacoustics and identification, whereby a handclap could be used to identify someone.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Behavior