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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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COMM Updates - 3/18/2026
March 18, 2026 Events REMINDER: Join us for COMMColloquium Monday, March 23, 2026, 3:00 pm, in 102 Mann Library Building. Graduate student Bya Rodrigues will present “ Resisting Networked Misogyny: Platformized Activism, Care Infrastructures and...
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Cornell student trip gives firsthand insight into beef industry
Cornell PRO-LIVESTOCK and the Department of Animal Science hit the ground running in 2026 with two separate undergraduate experiential learning events spotlighting the livestock production industry. In January, a group of 11 Cornell...
  • PRO-LIVESTOCK
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
Sheila Bass, program manager of CCE Erie’s Healthy Community Store Initiative, talks about nutrition with Jasmine Robbs , a customer at Buffalo’s Golden Corner store, and Moet Grooms, a CCE educator with the Healthy Community Store Initiative

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CCE promotes Buffalo’s well-being with healthy community stores

CCE Erie County encourages corner stores in Buffalo’s food deserts to stock fresh fruits, vegetables and other nutritious options and educates residents on how to take care of their health.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
Emily Bernhardt

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Ecologist, biogeochemist Emily Bernhardt to lead Cornell Atkinson

Emily Bernhardt, Ph.D. ‘01, the James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry at Duke University, will join Cornell as the Francis J. DiSalvo Director of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability on Sept. 1.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment