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Senegal Alfred Mabry is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the neuroscience area of the Department of Psychology in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. He is working to characterize the heart-brain axis in Parkinson’s disease using magnetic resonance imaging. He aims to understand why people with Parkinson’s may struggle to perceive their internal bodily sensations and how interventions like exercise training reduce Parkinson’s symptoms.

In 2024, he was named a Cell Press Rising

Sephra Lamothe is an interdisciplinary researcher and curator. Her research interest centers on uncovering historically underrepresented experiences within fashion. Sephra’s current research explores the effects of traumatic experiences and environments on material culture. Her recent work includes exploring changes within the design and roles of women's clothing during the 1918 Flu and COVID-19 pandemics and garment production within the Canadian Penitentiary system. 

Elaine Wethington is Professor Emeritus of Human Development and of Sociology. She is also adjunct Research Professor at the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.Since 2003 she has been Co-Director and Director of the Pilot Study Core (now Behavioral Intervention Development Core) for the Cornell Edward R. Roybal Center for Translation of the Behavioral and Social Sciences of Aging, the Translational Research Institute on Pain in Later Life. Her current research focuses on developing measures

Erik Thorbecke is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics and Food Economics Emeritus and former Director of the Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University. He is presently a Graduate School Professor. His past positions include chairman of the Department of Economics at Cornell, a professorship at Iowa State University, and associate assistant administrator for program policy at the Agency for International Development. He was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the University of

Janet Loebach is the Evalyn Edwards Milman Assistant Professor in Child Development in the Department of Human Centered Design, and the Director of the DECA Lab (Design Environments with|for Children & Adolescents).  Dr. Loebach received a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering & Society from McMaster University (Canada), a Master of Environmental Design from the School of Architecture and Planning at Dalhousie University (Canada), and a PhD in Children's, Urban and Health Geographies from the Department of