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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

Turner appointed Chair of Northeast Extension Directors

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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News

‘Mist opportunity’ reveals how onions make cooks cry

One solution for preventing pungent aerosols from ejecting into the air: Cut onions slowly with a sharpened blade.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Food
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News

‘Ground truth’: Flood monitoring tool gives NYS residents a voice

The MyCoast New York app has already provided forecasters and emergency managers with a new understanding of flooding around the state, as sea levels rise and storms intensify.

  • New York Sea Grant Institute
  • New York State Water Resources Institute
  • Water
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Field Note

From Cornell to the UN with Sofia Herrera ’27
Sofia Herrera ’27, a global development major from Panama City, Panama, shares her experience serving her home country as a summer intern with the United Nations. Why I chose this path This summer, I had the privilege of interning at the...
  • Global Development