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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

Christy Hoepting jumping in a field of onions, with onions in her hands

News

Christy Hoepting, vegetable specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Cornell Vegetable Program, discovered her calling in the rich, black soil of Ontario Canada's muck fields, where she saw firsthand how applied research could...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Field Crops
  • Vegetables
Three bowls of cherry tomatoes in red, green and orange colors

News

Three varieties join the “Galaxy Suite” of grape tomatoes, a snack-sized Cornell-bred medley.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
People walking around and looking at displays at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Visitor Center

News

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's recently renovated Visitor Center received two awards from the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) and a Gold in exhibit and print from Graphis Awards. These prestigious awards honor installations that...

  • Lab of Ornithology
Unicorn kale

News

The "it" vegetable just got a glow-up, fulfilling consumers' desires for quirky and aesthetically pleasing foods.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture