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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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New York State Assemblyperson Anna Kelles (D-125th District) addresses an Emerson Hall audience on Feb. 28 during “What’s Next for STEM Research,” an expert panel organized by the graduate student-led Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club.

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Panels discuss federal research funding threats, opportunities

Experts discussed support for science research during a pair of panels organized by faculty and students on Feb. 28.

  • Communication
Amy Barkley holding a chicken on her farm.

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Faces of Extension : Amy Barkley
Amy Barkley is a livestock specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Southwest New York Dairy Livestock and Field Crops Program. Although Amy specializes in poultry, she also supports farmers with beef, sheep, goats, camelids, swine...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Researchers wearing protective gear work aboard the U.S. EPA’s Lake Guardian research vessel

News

Cornell Atkinson awards support biodiversity and sustainability research

Cornell Atkinson is supporting 36 graduate students whose work protects biodiversity, improves health, reduces climate risk and more.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Field Note

Biomethane potential in New York State
Biomethane from New York’s dairy manure and food waste could fuel over 30,000 tractor trailers annually, displacing at least 300 million gallons of diesel. * 12 percent of the NY dairy herd has implemented manure anaerobic digestion (AD) to...
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animals