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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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News

Nearly 80 farmers, commercial growers, home gardeners and professionals from allied regional agricultural organizations gathered on July 8th at Cornell's Willsboro Research Farm to learn about research aimed at improving agricultural production...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • PRO-DAIRY
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News

Anna Lovat ‘28, a Minnesota native and rising junior studying entomology at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, spent the summer connecting with local cut flower farmers in Madison County. Interning with Cornell...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
A woman holds two test tubes and smiles.

Field Note

What sparked your interest in agriculture? In high school, we did an environmental science program and there was a section on agriculture. As a part of this, we all had to participate in the World Food Prize, where we picked a country...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
Birds eye view of a farming town in China

News

China’s Scientific Outlook on Development program, which tied local leaders’ job performance evaluations to environmental quality improvements, had negative impacts on the country's agricultural economy, researchers found.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change