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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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Model reveals tradeoffs that limit harm caused by malaria parasite

A new study based on mathematical modeling reveals how parasites’ choice between using resources to replicate within hosts and transmitting to new mosquito and human hosts might limit their virulence.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Disease
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Amplifying the beet: New tech makes for crunchier snacks

"Better-for-you" snacks are all the rage. New tech from Cornell food scientists may give beets their time to shine.

  • Food Science
  • Food
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Historic gift endows Cornell CALS Ashley School

The Department of Global Development and the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment have been combined to establish a new school: the Cornell CALS Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Monique Rivera Named '40 Under 40' Leader in Fruit Industry
Monique Rivera, an assistant professor of entomology at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been honored as one of the nation’s top young researchers in the fruit and vegetable industries by Fruit Growers News. Rivera began...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Entomology