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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).

Latest from the CALS Newsroom

A man smiles while holding a LICOR greenhouse gas sampling system in a field.

Field Note

From humble beginnings, Erick Amaya’s passion for learning carried him through his undergraduate career to a position with Cornell’s Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) — first as an intern, then as a research technician. While a part of...
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Climate Change
Two people in yellow jackets plant crops in between solar arrays

News

The process of combining agricultural production and solar panels on the same farmland, known as agrivoltaics, has seen a great leap in Cornell research activity.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Agrivoltaics
  • Energy
Lidsey serving wine at an event

News

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
A whale springing out of the water

News

A Cornell-led team has developed a method to estimate North Atlantic right whale numbers using underwater microphones and machine learning, potentially offering a safer and more cost-effective way to monitor this endangered species.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals