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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.

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Latest from the CALS Newsroom

A jaguar stands in a stream in the jungle.

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A $1.8 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund will help the Cornell Lab of Ornithology develop acoustic sensors and artificial intelligence analytics to identify real-time threats to forests from illegal activities and provide insights into...

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
Birds eye view of  10, yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota.

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In a warming climate, extreme drought could trigger a dramatic release of carbon from peatlands, erasing up to 250 years of carbon stores in a matter of months.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Climate Change
Quantera founder Terry Bates, Ph.D. ’23, explains the operation of the startup's spectrometer to undergraduate interns Nick DeMayo ’26 and Alexis Sherman ’26, both from Cornell Engineering.

News

Newly admitted into the Praxis Center business incubator, Quantera aims to improve scientific sample collection.

  • Food Science
landscape picture with a mountain and a building

News

In September, Michelle Holeck (Administrative Assistant at CBFS) had the opportunity to attend the 60th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) in Gothic, Colorado. This gathering brought together members from...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment