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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

A black, brown, and white great horned owl winks at the camera from her nest.

News

Athena, a great horned owl nesting in Texas, is poised to become the next international avian superstar via a Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bird Cam.

  • Lab of Ornithology
Two women, one in a long sleeved stripped shirt and jeans, and the other in a traditional dress with a bright red pattern and head covering, hold up seedlings in a field.

News

Feed the Future Insect-Resistant Eggplant Partnership program helps women in Bangladesh start plant nurseries and gain control over their finances.

  • Agriculture
  • Crops
A woman wearing purple gloves and holding a blue folder crouches in a field and speaks to another woman in a mask.

News

Awarded graduate students will study sustainability, biodiversity, accelerating energy transitions, advancing human health, increasing food security or addressing climate change.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Biodiversity
A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk and writing into a journal.

News

On March 14 and 15, a series of free public events at Mann Library will celebrate Russian novelist and former Cornell professor Vladimir Nabokov's lesser-known but impactful contributions to the science of collecting, classifying and...

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology