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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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River ecosystem

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Global atlas will track human and climate impact on river systems

A new Cornell-led project will create a global record that shows how river systems around the world have changed under human influence over the last 75 years.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change
  • Water
Kwesi Joseph at a raised bed, holding a trowel

News

Faces of Extension : Kwesi Joseph
Kwesi Joseph, urban garden specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Harvest New York program, turned his passion for gardening, composting, and the transformative power of healthy soil into a path to community leadership. Through...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
schied with salt truck

Field Note

Grounds director leaves lasting legacy on campus landscape
Unlike most world-class universities, Cornell’s campus sits between two gorges, surrounded by native landscaping, meadows and carefully managed turfgrass — not lost among the buildings and asphalt of an urban environment. “Mother Nature has...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Vipan Kumar in a water hemp field

Field Note

Vipan Kumar: Fighting back against glyphosate-resistant weeds in NY fields
Glyphosate – better known by the brand name Roundup – has been the go-to herbicide for commercial farmers in New York since it was introduced in the 1970s. However, several weed species have evolved resistance to the herbicide, and those weeds...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section