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Elizabeth (Lissa) Riley received her undergraduate degree from MIT and her PhD from the Boston University School of Medicine. She trained at the Boston VA Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School as a Special Geriatric Fellow before coming to Cornell as a postdoctoral fellow with a National Institute on Aging National Research Service Award F32 fellowship. She is now a Research Associate. In 2024, she was named a National Institute on Aging Butler Williams Scholar.

Through my life and research experiences, I've become fascinated with the question: how do we tap into our full potential? Specifically, I investigate "learning readiness", or the social, cognitive and neural features that predict academic motivation and learning success. I believe these clues will reveal the depths of an individual's potential to learn. And tracking the development of these features, as well as how they vary over time, across individuals from diverse backgrounds, and across

John Eckenrode is Professor of Human Development and Associate Director of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research. He is also founder and Co-Director of the National Data Archive of Child Abuse and Neglect. His research concerns child abuse and neglect, the effects of preventive interventions, translational research, and stress and coping processes. He is a social psychologist (Tufts, 1979), has authored numerous journal articles and chapters, and has edited three books, Stress Between Work and

Andrea Parrot Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University, where she has been teaching since 1981.  She teaches courses in Contemporary Issues in Women's Health, Human Sexuality, the Global Perspective on Violence Against Women, Reproductive Health Policy, and Medical Ethics. Her research interests have revolved around women's health issues, sexual assault, infertility, and cross cultural women's health and violence against women. She earned her MS at SUNY

Professor Evans is an environmental and developmental psychologist interested in how the physical environment affects human health and well being among children. His specific areas of expertise include the environment of childhood poverty, children's environments (housing, schools, playgrounds, toys),  cumulative risk and child development, environmental stressors, and the development of children's environmental attitudes and behaviors.

My interests relate to the formulation, implementation and evaluation of nutrition policy, primarily in low and middle income countries.  My approach to this work has been from a transdisciplinary, engaged and problem-oriented perspective, in which the key research questions and choice of methods emerges in the course of engaging with policy and program actors at global, national or sub-national levels.  This approach is guided by robust theoretical frameworks and ensures that the research is responsive to real-world concerns and more likely to

I am a retired Senior Extension Associate (Emeritus) with the College of Human Ecology, Cornell University. I am affiliated with the College's Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research and the research and evaluation team of the Residential Child Care Project.  My professional purpose is consistent with the RCCP’s mission to provide high-quality, research-informed, and equitable services for children served by our nation’s child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, and developmental disability systems. My focus is on