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Rachel Dunifon is the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of the College of Human Ecology. As dean of the college since 2020, she led the development of Vision 2030, which unified the college's scholarship around the themes of health equity; sustainability and society; and technology and human health. She has overseen the creation of the Action Research Collaborative, the Purpose Science & innovation Exchange, the Joan Klein Jacobs Center for

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

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.