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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

Farmer plows field on a tractor

News

Fruit and vegetable farmers across the U.S. said that labor was the biggest barrier to adopting sustainable practices, with many farmers perceiving the labor requirements to be higher than they are.

  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
  • Crops
Biosensor technology

News

Cornell researchers have developed a powerful new biosensor that reveals, in unprecedented detail, how and where kinases – enzymes that control nearly all cellular processes – turn on and off inside living cells.

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
person receiving award and shaking other person's hand

News

November 12, 2025 Awards Graduate student Rosie Nguyen placed first in the Student Paper Competition at the Global Fusion 2025 Conference, which celebrates outstanding scholarship in global media and international communication. Her winning...
Solar panels

News

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has awarded the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences $5 million to build solar arrays at university farms in Ithaca and the Hudson Valley.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Hudson Valley Lab
  • Natural Resources and the Environment