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Rigorous graduate programs

Through the graduate field of nutrition, we offer a research-based master’s degree and a Ph.D. We also offer an ACEND-accredited Dietetic Internship for people interested in the RD/RDN credential.

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Research that improves lives

From cells to society, our faculty and students are at the forefront of nutrition research.

Members of the Center for Precision Nutrition and Health
Members of the Center for Precision Nutrition and Health

Leveraging Cornell’s strengths in AI and technology innovation, the Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health aims to connect individual-level nutrition guidance to population-level policies and bridge academic research to create practical applications.

Angela-Odoms Young with CCE nutrition educators
Angela-Odoms Young with CCE nutrition educators

Angela Odoms-Young uses her research in the social and structural determinants of dietary behaviors to help people live healthier lives. She leads extension programming in nutrition for New York and helps shape national policy as part of groups like the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

professor hands a tray of vials to a student in a lab
professor hands a tray of vials to a student in a lab

Kimberley O'Brien and Alexa Barad, Ph.D. ’24, have found that people of East Asian ancestry have greater risk of elevated iron stores than people of Northern European ancestry, putting them at higher risk of chronic conditions such as heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, liver disease and cancer.

from cells to society

Daniel Zhang electro spinning a blood sample
Student in scrubs at hospital
Reid Schwartz in a lab with a bunsen burner
Katja Jackson at a lab table with a sheep brain
Students stirring pot in a kitchen
Zoe Tarun standing in front of a building
Beatriz Carmona standing outside in front of fall foliage
Andrew Meissner working with culture in lab
Ella Wilkinson standing in dining room
Francesca Saenz and students with locals in India

we examine the human condition