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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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Birds are among Earth’s most important nutrient-movers

Birds play an outsized, underappreciated role in shaping Earth’s chemistry, distributing nutrients across oceans, forests and coral reefs and sustaining life far beyond the nest, according to a new scientific review.

  • Animals
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
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Field Note

Unlocking yield potential: From field topography to fertility
With hundreds of thousands of acres of corn in New York, it's crucial to support farmers’ efforts to optimize crop production. Yield varies in crop fields for many reasons, including soil fertility and topography. In a recent study, Cornell CALS...
  • Animal Science
  • Soil
  • Agriculture
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Comm Updates - 10/15/26
October 15, 2026 Conferences Graduate student Amanda Vilchez, with Yael Silver and Professor Bruce Lewenstein, presented “Trust, Relational Learning, and Boundary-Work in Citizen Science across Knowledge Systems” at the PCST symposium Building...
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NSF awards $22.5M to continue plant-human communication projects

The Cornell-led multi-institutional Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems will continue work to transform agriculture by enabling direct two-way communication with crop plants’ internal processes.

  • Plants
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section