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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.

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Two people in yellow jackets plant crops in between solar arrays

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Solar solutions: Agrivoltaics offer array of options for farmland use

The process of combining agricultural production and solar panels on the same farmland, known as agrivoltaics, has seen a great leap in Cornell research activity.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Agrivoltaics
  • Energy
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Faces of Extension: Lindsey Pashow

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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New study advances acoustic monitoring of endangered whale

A Cornell-led team has developed a method to estimate North Atlantic right whale numbers using underwater microphones and machine learning, potentially offering a safer and more cost-effective way to monitor this endangered species.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
Bahiya examines a hemp plant.

Field Note

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Bahiya Zahl: Transforming hemp through breeding
At Cornell AgriTech, graduate students play an important role in innovative plant breeding research. In this interview, we speak with Bahiya Zahl, a Ph.D. student in the lab of professor Larry Smart whose work in hemp genetics and breeding could...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science