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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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Cultivating Crops, Community: Undergrads Running Dilmun Hill Student Farm
While some students spent their summer in offices, the student managers at Dilmun Hill Student Farm worked full-time growing produce for the Ithaca community. The farm’s philosophy is to “learn by doing,” and that’s exactly what the students did...
  • Dilmun Hill Student Farm
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‘HyperBird’ spots grape diseases before they’re visible

The cutting-edge imaging platform observes microscopic traits in plants and can detect grape diseases that cost vineyard owners billions in annual losses globally.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
Patrick Webb

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Meet our faculty: Patrick Webb
Academic focus: Transforming our food systems to support the health of people and the planet Research summary: I study the costs, benefits and tradeoffs involved in policies aimed at transforming food systems to support healthy and sustainable...
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
Ke Wang

Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Ke Wang
Academic focus: Bioprocess engineering and precision fermentation Research summary: My research program focuses on using bioprocess engineering approaches to address current and emerging challenges in food security and environmental...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science