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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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Long Island resident Suzette Foote (left) talks with Shannon Fabiani, energy adviser with the Long Island Regional Clean Energy Hub, about clean energy upgrades for Foote’s home.

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CCE helps Long Island residents save on energy bills

The Long Island Regional Clean Energy Hub offers residents and businesses free guidance and subsidies to reduce their energy use, transition to clean energy and lower their heating and electricity bills.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Energy
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Solar’s threat to NYS agriculture may be overstated

New York state farmers with solar leases say they’ll use the added revenue to invest in their farms, with many stating they don't plan to change their agricultural practices at all.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Agriculture
  • Solar
bobolink bird

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Wildfire smoke silences grassland birds in NYS

In June 2023, smoke from Canadian wildfires dampened birds’ vocalizations in New York state, with a particularly negative effect on already imperiled grassland birds.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Natural Resources
A monarch butterfly on milkweed.

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Research aims to boost pollinator habitat restoration 
Monarch butterflies and other pollinators are essential to ecosystems and agriculture, supporting the reproduction of flowering plants and the production of fruits and vegetables. But decades of habitat loss, pesticide use and the disappearance...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section