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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.

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Latest from the CALS Newsroom

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Spotlight

Academic focus: Controlled environment insect ecology Research summary: My research explores how abiotic and biotic factors drive invertebrate communities in controlled environment agriculture (CEA). CEA is a dynamic and rapidly evolving field...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Entomology
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Spotlight

Academic focus: Alpine botany, biodiversity, museum science Research summary: My research aims to understand the ecological and evolutionary processes that generate and maintain biodiversity across space and time in alpine “sky islands” on...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants
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Field Note

Despite nutrition’s essential role in pet well-being, most nutrition courses focus solely on basic dietary needs for growth, overlooking the complexities of nutrient metabolism disorders. Nathalie Trottier, professor of animal nutrition in the...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals