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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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CCE staff, summer interns all wearing lifejackets - like good boaters should.

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NY Sea Grant expert shares boating safety habits that save lives
Planning to spend time on the water this summer? Before you launch, tune in to this episode of 'Extension Out Loud' featuring Megan Cochran, Great Lakes Outreach Coordinator with New York Sea Grant. In this episode, we discuss key steps to take...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Sea Grant NY
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There may be 3 times as many insect species than previously thought

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 to 14 million more species than people thought, with few of them discovered.

  • Entomology
  • Biodiversity
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Cornell Yang Center for Wildlife Health awards seed funding to five conservation efforts around the globe

The CCF provides catalytic seed funding to spark pioneering applied research to advance wildlife conservation solutions. The fund prioritizes initiatives that improve the health of free-ranging wildlife and/or solve environmental problems via a...

  • Animal Science
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Communication
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Two doctoral students selected as FFAR Fellows

Doctoral students Divyanth Loganathan Girija and Sumit Sharma were selected for the 2026-2029 Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Fellows Program.

  • Animal Science
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering