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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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Kathys Burns in the Voice of the Farmer garden at the NY State Fair.

News

CCE’s Kathy Burns awarded Women in Agriculture Friend of the Fair Award
Kathy Burns' path to Cornell Cooperative Extension Onondaga County began with a chance discovery: a job listing for a Master Gardener Program Coordinator that caught her eye. She applied, drawn by the opportunity to combine her experience...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Report

Dairy Market Watch
The June 2026 Dairy Market Watch provides an overview of dairy market trends affecting producers in the Northeast Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO #1). Component production remained historically strong, with average butterfat and protein tests...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science

News

Lab of Ornithology to host annual Migration Celebration

Celebrate birds with a fun-filled day of free workshops, presentations, bird walks, and more at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology on Sept. 12 from 10 a.m to 3 p.m.

  • Lab of Ornithology
Ph.D. student Nick Gunner shows a group of growers the results of digital ag and ai work.

Field Note

Nick Gunner: Bridging technology and agriculture
What sparked your interest in robotics, and how did your journey lead you to this field? I’m not actually a roboticist, which may seem unusual given that I study in a robotics lab. Our work extends far beyond building robots: We draw on software...