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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).

Latest from the CALS Newsroom

Panel discussion at 2026 Herd Health and Nutrition Conference

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Nearly 150 dairy industry professionals gathered in East Syracuse, NY last week to hear from industry experts about the latest trends and research related to dairy herd health and nutrition at the 2026 Herd Health and Nutrition Conference. For...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Waterhemp field

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While gene drives have great potential for controlling weeds, seed banks can foil their efforts.

  • Computational Biology
  • Plants
A single Drosophila larval sensory neuron labeled by the MAGIC technique

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Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful new genetic toolkit that allows scientists to study how genes function at the level of individual cells, an advance that could accelerate discoveries in development, neuroscience and...

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
Melanie Forstrom speaking to an audience

News

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension