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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).

Latest from the CALS Newsroom

Headshot of Brooks Crickard

Field Note

Brooks Crickard , assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, studies the mechanisms cells use to self-correct when DNA replication goes wrong, including the strategies enzymes use...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
Assistant professor Ke Wang and postdoctoral associate Krishna Sahoo

News

Food scientists at Cornell AgriTech have developed a liquid-fermentation process that grows protein-rich oyster mushroom mycelium in days rather than weeks and – in a first for the field – have shown that the fungus will thrive on a fatty acid...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science
McGraw tower at Cornell University

News

Eighteen faculty and staff members across Cornell’s state contract colleges have been named recipients of the 2025–26 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.

five young people stand together

News

Dairy youth gained hands-on experience in milk quality and milk production recently at the Dairy Discovery Workshop hosted by Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY. Held March 27-28 on the Cornell University Ithaca campus, this year’s program was themed...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Dairy