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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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COMM Updates - 4/15/2026
April 15, 2026 Conferences Graduate student Rosie Nguyen presented a talk titled “Imaginaries of Vietnam: Dominant Narratives and Marginal Voices” at the Trans-Asia Graduate Student Conference at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In her...
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Animal and human waste could slash synthetic fertilizer use in US

Waste could fulfill 102% of nitrogen and 50% of phosphorus needs for the nation’s agriculture, and significant amounts could be distributed locally and sustainably.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Mariel Pfeifer
Academic focus: Biology education research/discipline-based science education research Research summary: My lab is called the EQUIP lab, and we study how STEM environments can better support all students and faculty. A major focus of our work is...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture
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Meet our faculty: Hugo Monteiro
Academic focus: Microbiology of anaerobes in animal and environmental systems Research summary: My research focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which microbes interact with their symbiotic hosts and environments, with the goal of...
  • Animal Science
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Meet our faculty: Hannah McMillan
Academic focus: Plant-microbiome-environment interactions Research summary: Plants interact simultaneously with microbes and their abiotic environment, but molecular studies often focus only on interactions with one or the other. My research...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants