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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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Annual ryegrass cover crop in New York
This fact sheet was authored by Joe Lawrence, PRO-DAIRY forage systems specialist, Kirsten Workman, PRO-DAIRY nutrient management specialist, and Mike Hunter, IPM coordinator, and was shared in the July 2026 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
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Protecting Water Quality Through Septic System Education
Relevance Skaneateles Lake is a critical natural resource for Central New York and serves as the primary drinking water source for residents throughout the watershed and the City of Syracuse. Nearly 2,000 homes within the watershed rely on...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Soil carbon effectively measured by new, efficient AI model

A new model offers a proof-of-principle for how AI might be used to shed light on obscure biological processes.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Climate Change
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Will dietary fiber help digestion? It might depend on your gut bacteria

People may not only need specific species of gut bacteria but also the right strains of those bacteria to benefit from dietary fiber.

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition