Focus areas
Factors shaping Black girls’ mental health and wellness, Participatory action research, Impact of spaces that support Black girls’ development
Focus areas
Affect and cognition, Cognitive health across the lifespan, Understanding emotions as distinct tools intended to help us
Focus areas
Micronutrient-gene, Micronutrient-macronutrient, Micronutrient-disease
Focus areas
Mitochondrial disease, Metabolic disease, Obesity
Fatma Baytar
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Fiber Science and Apparel Design
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Digitalization in the apparel industry, 3D body scan data + apparel simulation, 3D digital technologies
Laura Bellows
Professor
Director, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
Department
Nutritional Sciences, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
Contact
Laura.Bellows@cornell.edu
Focus areas
maternal child nutrition, physical activity, community-engaged research
Daniel Berry
Andre Bensadoun Associate Professor
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Adipose tissue biology, Systemic metabolism
Focus areas
Cognitive development in children, Cognitive processes and aging
Anthony Burrow
Professor
Director, Purpose Science and innovation Exchange
Department
Psychology
Focus areas
Purpose in life, Racial identification
Marianella Casasola
Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
Professor
Department
Psychology
Focus areas
Infant cognitive development + early word learning, Interaction between language and thought, Parental beliefs of young children's learning
Focus areas
Eating behavior, Sensory science, Obesity, Satiation and energy intake
Focus areas
Moral development across the lifespan
Eve De Rosa
Mibs Martin Follett Professor in Human Ecology
Department
Psychology
Focus areas
Comparative cognitive neuroscience, Neurochemistry attention + learning, role of acetylcholine, Cholinergic hypothesis of age-related changes in cognition
Rachel Dunifon
Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean
Department
John Elliott
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Design + Environmental Analysis
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Material culture in the built environment, Ecological literacy in design, Arborworks sculpture
Gary Evans
Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor
Department
Human Centered Design, Psychology
Focus areas
Children's environments (e.g. schools, housing), Environment of childhood poverty, Development of environmental attitudes/behaviors in children
Martha Field
Associate Professor
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Mitochondrial one-carbon metabolism, Erythritol as a biomarker
Roger Figueroa
Assistant Professor in Social and Behavioral Science in Nutrition
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Community-based interventions to promote nutrition security, Local agriculture and food insecurity, Urban food environments
Julia Finkelstein
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Epidemiology, One-carbon metabolism, Maternal and child nutrition
Focus areas
Global nutrition (maternal and infant), Food systems, Nutritional and environmental determinants, Public health interventions and policy
Focus areas
Molecular regulation of human milk production, Human milk composition
Focus areas
Behavioral ecology of mind-body-environment dynamics, Affordances and neural sensitivity, Community-partnered neuroscience
Denise N. Green
Lau Family Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Fiber Science and Apparel Design
Department
Human Centered Design
Contact
dng22@cornell.edu
Focus areas
Anthropological studies of style and fashion, History and curatorial practice of dress and textiles, Native American textiles and regalia
Keith Evan Green
Jean and Douglas McLean Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Intersection of design + robotics + psychology, Robot “living rooms” interacting/adapting with inhabitants, Robots that improve community, learning and health
Focus areas
Politics and health, Social impacts of government actions, Peoples adaptations to sudden changes
John F. Hoddinott
H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Economics and Policy
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Food security, Early life nutrition, Poverty
Focus areas
Development of social identity, Social identity interventions, Mental health and well-being
Focus areas
Practice + approaches to creating optimal work + learning, Research methodology for post-occupancy evaluation (POE), Sustainable and resilience building practices in US + Asia
Focus areas
Host-microbe interactions, Infant nutrition, Sphingolipids
Focus areas
Wayfinding + spatial cognition using VR + simulation, Predictive design tools evaluating human responses to design, Human-environment interaction: built and virtual environment
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
Associate Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Wearable technology and on-skin interfaces, Designing skins across scales, Social perceptions towards on-body technologies
Sander Kersten
Division Director
Schleifer Family Professor
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Lipid metabolism, Molecular response to fasting, Precision nutrition
Tashara M. Leak
Associate Professor
Associate Dean for CHE in NYC
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Nutrition and health equity, Adolescents, Community-based interventions
Sang Leigh
Assistant Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Accessible interactive technologies, Human-computer interaction, Design innovation – bridging art, technology and UX
Renata Leitao
Assistant Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Design for Indigenous empowerment, Transformational design for societal + environmental change, Intercultural design knowledge
Janet Loebach
Evalyn Edwards Milman Assistant Professor in Child Development
Department
Human Centered Design
Contact
j.loebach@cornell.edu
Focus areas
children's environments, participatory research & design, behavior mapping
Corinna Loeckenhoff
Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor of Developmental Psychology
Professor of Gerontology in Medicine
Department
Psychology
Focus areas
Age-related differences in health decision-making, Lifespan personality and social cognition, Cultural perspectives on aging
Marla Lujan
Professor
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), Ovarian morphology and follicle development, Nutritional and metabolic regulation of ovulation
Saurabh Mehta
Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Precision nutrition, Global health, Point-of-care diagnostics
Focus areas
Maternal/fetal nutrition, Vitamin D + iron, Gut microbiome
Angela Odoms-Young
Nancy Schlegel Meinig Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Nutrition
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Contact
amo2@cornell.edu
Focus areas
Health equity/racism, Food and nutrition security, Social and structural determinants
Focus areas
Aging and health, affective dynamics, social connection, resilience and adaptation, biological embedding, lifespan development
Heeju Terry Park
Vincent V.C. Woo Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Activewear and protective clothing, Smart wearable interface, Ethics of design and fashion
Karl Pillemer
Hazel E. Reed Professor
Professor of Gerontology in Medicine
Department
Psychology
Focus areas
Aging and the life course, Sociology of the family, Intervention research
Angela Poole
Assistant Professor
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Precision nutrition, Gut microbiota and metabolic health, Oral microbiota and pathologies
Shu-Bing Qian
James Jamison Professor
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Translational reprogramming, Nutrient stress response, mRNA epigenetics
Jaleesa Reed
Assistant Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Self-definition + consumption for marginalized groups, Feminist theory + Black geography, Racism + representation in relation to beauty + identity
Focus areas
Judgement and decision making; risk and rationality, False memory, Fuzzy Trace Theory, Cognitive, developmental and social neuroscience
Jonathan A. Rottenberg
Professor
Department
Psychology
Focus areas
Mental health, Well-being after depression + related
Focus areas
Global health, Nutrition + economics in developing countries, Global food policy
Jessica Salerno
Associate Professor
Department
Psychology
Larissa Shepherd
Assistant Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Tailoring fibers (spinning) for practical applications, Optically responsive fabrics, Immersion electrospinning
Jung-hye Shin
Chair
Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Environmental design, Aging in place
Focus areas
Adaptive intelligence, Transformational giftedness, Creativity, wisdom, ethics, leadership and emotion
Focus areas
Statistics, Causal inference, Missing data
Tamer Uyar
Associate Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Nanofibers and nanotextiles, Medical textiles and drug delivery, Water treatment, food packaging
Focus areas
Nutrition and metabolism in DNA damage, Cancer and aging, Targeted treatments for DNA damage
Yuhan Wang
Lois and Mel Tukman Assistant Professor
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Contact
yw2526@cornell.edu
Focus areas
Brain-body interactions that govern metabolic regulation
Focus areas
Emotion and relationship contributions to health, Caregiving and neurodegenerative diseases, dementia, Positive interpersonal processes and wellbeing, resilience
Nancy M. Wells
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Environmental psychology, Effects of the built and natural environment on human health, Environmental design + policy impacts on consumption + reuse
Jay (JungKyoon) Yoon
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Design + Environmental Analysis
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Experience-driven design, Design for emotion, subjective well-being + behavior change, Product design + development
Focus areas
Human-computer interaction in virtual environments, Large-scale interface/interaction design, Interior design
Rana Sagha Zadeh
Associate Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
User-centered design in healthcare, Systems approach, Healthcare entrepreneurship