Saori Mikami
Saori is a second-year Ph.D. student concentrating on Community Nutrition. Her current research focuses on improving child nutrition and digital health approaches. Saori aims to advance equitable nutrition support by integrating behavioral science and data-driven evaluation to better understand and promote healthy eating environments for families and children.
Yue (Elaine) Sha
Elaine Sha, MPH, RD, IBCLC, is a Ph.D. student in Human Nutrition working with Dr. Yarden Golan Maor. Her research focuses on identifying the psychosocial, physiological, and pharmacological factors that influence human milk production and composition. After completing her Registered Dietitian and Pathway 2 Lactation Consultant training during her master’s program at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Elaine spent three years as an adult and pediatric clinical dietitian, an experience that shaped
Paige Cunningham
Dr. Paige Cunningham is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. She received her B.S. in Psychology from Yale University where she began her research career investigating weight management, bias, and stigma. Her interest in the impact that eating behavior can have on obesity and health outcomes led her to pursue a PhD in Nutritional Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University under the mentorship of Dr. Barbara Rolls. During her
Charles Brainerd
My research and teaching are interwoven so that the two activities reinforce each other and so that, to the greatest extent possible, the latest research findings are integrated into the courses I teach. Throughout my career, my research and teaching have revolved around a single broad theme: the scientific study of human cognition. I have concentrated most extensively on the development of cognitive processes in normal and atypical children, but I have also published considerable research
Martha Field
I am an Associate Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. I received a B.S. in chemistry from Butler University in 2000 and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology from Cornell University in 2007.
My laboratory studies gene-nutrient interactions that lead to development of disease. It is clear that what we eat can be associated with disease onset, and some individuals are more likely to be affected based on certain genetic
Alisha Gaines
Juan Hinestroza
Juan P. Hinestroza, a U.S. Fulbright Scholar and a PMP®, is the Rebecca Q. Morgan ’60 Professor of Fiber Science & Apparel Design, and directs The Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
Professor Hinestroza has extensive experience in a variety of research environments, including academia, the military, non-profit organizations, start-ups, and large corporations. He has worked in institutions across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and