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Susan P. Ashdown, Emerita Professor, joined the College of Human Ecology faculty in 1991 on completion of her Ph.D research at the University of Minnesota on the topic of perception of apparel fit. Previous to this she completed her MA degree in functional apparel design at Cornell.  She taught at Cornell from 1980 to1988 in the College of Arts and Sciences and from 1991 to 2018 in the College of Human Ecology. The questions that informed her research and

At some point in time I have found myself at Vassar, Harvard, City College NY, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Toronto. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Staten Island, I am happy to be back in my home state of NY and hoping to live up to Cornell's land grant mission.  

I am interested in the role of the emotions in all human faculties. Considering both psychological, physiological and neural levels of analysis, a

Alan Hedge is an Emeritus  Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design (formerly Design and Environmental Analysis), Cornell University. His research and teaching activities focused on issues of design and workplace ergonomics as these affect the health, comfort and productivity of workers. His research themes included workstation design, computer ergonomics and carpal tunnel syndrome risk factors for workers, alternative keyboard and input system designs, the performance and health effects of postural strain, and the

Jessica Salerno, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and an Associate Member of the Law Faculty at Cornell University. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology and film from Middlebury College in 2003 and her doctorate in social psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2012. 

Dr. Salerno’s research sits at the intersection of social psychology and the legal system, investigating how cognitive, emotional, and social processes affect the