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I joined the Design and Environmental Analysis faculty in 1993 as my first full time academic appointment. My first graduate degree was a masters in city and regional planning. I worked as city planner for a large city in New Jersey and as a facility planner and programmer for an architectural firm in New York City.  My PhD is in psychology, specifically environmental psychology. My research interests have always been, and continue to be, related

Ritch C. Savin-Williams is a developmental psychologist, a professor emeritus of Human Development and Psychology. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he studied sex differences in dominance hierarchy formation at summer camp.

Dr. Savin-Williams has written ten books on adolescent development. The last two, Bi: Bisexual, pansexual, fluid, and nonbinary youth (New York University Press, 2021) and Mostly straight: Sexual fluidity among men (Harvard University Press, 2017) follow previous books on

Beatriz Carmona received her BS in Nutrition/Dietetics with a minor in Statistics from Auburn University in 2021. She is now a doctoral candidate in Community Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, and an NIH-funded T32 trainee in Maternal and Child Nutrition. 

Naiwen is PhD candidate in Nutritional Sciences and minor in Epidemiology and Data Science. Her study focuses on understanding the dimension of diet-related factors and malnutrition among vulnerable populations including children, adolescents, and women of reproductive age in low/middle-income settings using both traditional statistical approaches and machine learning.

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.

I design culturally relevant interventions, in partnership with community stakeholders, that aim to improve diet, health, and overall wellbeing of adolescents that reside in urban communities. I am deeply committed to conducting research that informs public health programming and policy. As such, the majority of my research studies have a clearly identified plan for translation from the very beginning.