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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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Karen Lutsky landscape

Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Karen Lutsky
Academic focus: Resilient landscapes and landscape laboratories Research summary: My work explores how landscape architects and designers might better design “with” changing landscapes across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Over the...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape
Stephan Lane Landscape

Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Stephan Lane
Academic focus: Synthetic biology and precision fermentation Research summary: My work aims to harness engineered microbial cell factories to convert low-cost feedstocks into high value products. Using synthetic biology tools, we can harness...
  • Food Science
Bosen Jin Landscape

Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Bosen Jin
Academic focus: Environmental chemistry and microbiology of emerging contaminants in agricultural and environmental systems, with a focus on PFAS, pesticides and contaminant-impacted bioresources within circular economy and resource recovery...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Soil
Zachariah Hansen landscape

Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Zachariah Hansen
Academic focus: Vegetable pathology Research summary: My applied vegetable pathology research program is aimed at improving disease management for important vegetable crops in New York state. Topics include fungicide resistance screening and...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture