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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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News

Fruit, Soil Health Teams tour orchards, campus
Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Fruit and Soil Health Program Work Teams held a joint meeting July 11 to tour research orchards and facilities for updates on the latest science from Ithaca-based faculty and staff. The day started with a morning...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Cornell Orchards
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
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Field Note

Lena Wilson: Using sweet science to improve berries
Lena Wilson is a Ph.D. student in professor Courtney Weber’s lab at Cornell AgriTech, where she focuses on raspberry breeding and genetics. Originally from San Francisco, her path to agricultural science began with a college job at a plant...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture
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Field Note

Meet Asmita Gautam: Helping dairies achieve sustainable silage farming
Originally from Bulingtar, Nepal, Asmita Gautam recently joined the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) as a postdoctoral research associate. Read on to learn more about Gautam’s origins and what she hopes to learn from this position. Why...
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Climate Change
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Spotlight

Margery Daughtrey: Keeping plants healthy for nearly 50 years
Since 1978, Margery Daughtrey has been and ornamental crop disease management problem-solver, serving the greenhouse, nursery and floriculture industries from her base at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center. “Some of her...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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Climate change lowers precipitation, prolongs drought in Southwest

Researchers found that human-caused climate change and air pollution have directly reduced precipitation in the Southwestern U.S., making drought inevitable.

  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Climate Change