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Kimberly Kopko received her Ph.D. in Child Development from the Department of Human Development at Cornell University and joined the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR) in the College of Human Ecology.  Her research and Extension work examines child development and parenting and family processes.  Current research and outreach projects include: parenting and youth development, parenting and child learning, and the use of research and evidence-based parent education programs to promote positive parenting and strengthen families. Ongoing academic and research interests include

Dr. Samantha L. Huey, PhD is a Research Associate in the Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health at Cornell University. Previously, Dr. Huey served as the 2022-2023 NIH T32 Maternal and Child Nutrition Postdoctoral Fellow and also as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Division of Nutritional Sciences. Dr. Huey earned her B.S. in Biology with minors in Nutrition & Global Diseases from Cedar Crest College (Allentown, PA) in 2013. She earned her

As a design educator, I believe in balancing critical inquiry with skill development:  teaching students how to use their intellect and utilize their skills to problem-solve for a design-hungry world is both challenging and immensely rewarding.  This combination of left brain / right brain functions known as the design process improves the human condition and I view my role as a guide for students as they endeavor to learn from those problems that require and

My work takes a behavioral ecology perspective on understanding the reciprocal relationships between environments, brains, and behaviors in humans.  Specifically, my lab, the Life History Lab, looks at how social and physical affordances in development and in the present impact neural sensitivity to rewards and punishment, vigilance, cognitive load, and stress as well positive stimuli like social support and contemplative practices. These sensitivities can encourage certain behaviors and be influenced by them, creating emergent ecologies

Shibani is an Associate Professor at Cornell University in the Division of Nutritional Sciences. Her research focuses on formulating and testing solutions targeting malnutrition in all its forms in women and children. Drawing on expertise in social science approaches, combined with epidemiological and biomedical methods, she has designed and implemented randomized controlled trials and longitudinal birth cohort studies focused on the maternal-infant life cycle. Her research aims to identify effective interventions and generate evidence to

Heeju Terry Park is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design at Cornell University. He obtained his Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University with an expertise in functional apparel and smart clothing. Dr. Park has participated in multiple funded multidisciplinary research projects aiming to improve the mobility and thermal comfort of personal protective clothing system including ballistic body armor and firefighters’ bunker gear. His professional career as an athletic apparel & footwear manager at