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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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Kayden Nasworthy, a graduate student at Cornell University, holding a bag of collected mysids. A new New York Sea Grant-funded research project is evaluating long-term trends in mysid shrimp populations in Lake Ontario.

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Cornell leads a Lake Ontario food web study in $1.5M Sea Grant research suite

Cornell University’s James Watkins and Kade Keranen are leading a nearly $240,000 study to examine the abundance of mysid, small, shrimp-like crustaceans that are critical links in Lake Ontario’s aquatic food web.

  • Biological Field Station
  • Sea Grant NY
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
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Thirteen early-career professors win NSF development awards

Researchers studying ribosomes, AI and quantum computing are among 13 early-career professors from Cornell who’ve recently been awarded National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.

  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Microbiology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Annual ryegrass cover crop in New York
This fact sheet was authored by Joe Lawrence, PRO-DAIRY forage systems specialist, Kirsten Workman, PRO-DAIRY nutrient management specialist, and Mike Hunter, IPM coordinator, and was shared in the July 2026 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
A view of Skaneatles from Skaneateles Lake

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Protecting Water Quality Through Septic System Education
Relevance Skaneateles Lake is a critical natural resource for Central New York and serves as the primary drinking water source for residents throughout the watershed and the City of Syracuse. Nearly 2,000 homes within the watershed rely on...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension