- Jun 23, 2026
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice
Who, what, why: Roger Figueroa partners with communities to reduce food insecurity
Who: a nutrition researcher improving public health
Roger Figueroa, an assistant professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, investigates how food assistance programs — from traditional benefits like SNAP to innovative approaches like produce prescriptions and online grocery delivery — alleviate food insecurity in New York State and across the country.
Figueroa’s first introduction to public health began as a youth in Puerto Rico, where his physical education teachers inspired him to become the
- Mar 25, 2026
- Holistic Human Health, Technology + Human Thriving
Social media’s legal reckoning has begun: ‘We are in a new world’
Adam Hoffman, assistant professor in the Psychology Department, told The Wrap that he expected a “major overhaul” in social media design.
- Feb 10, 2026
- Holistic Human Health
Full-fat dairy is back. But nutrition experts say it might not be so simple.
New federal dietary guidelines are reshaping the conversation around full-fat dairy, but the science, experts say, isn’t so simple.
In a recent story examining updated recommendations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Sander Kersten, the director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences, offers important perspective on the evolving evidence.
“This is such a complex subject,” Kersten said. “You can weigh the evidence very differently
Joeva Barrow
Joeva Barrow, Ph.D., R.D. is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Nutrition at Cornell University Division of Nutritional Sciences. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in 2006 before completing her Masters and combined Dietetic internship program at the University of Florida in 2008 where she was certified as a Registered Dietitian.
While working at the frontlines in clinical dietetics providing medical nutrition therapy to patients with metabolic diseases, Dr. Barrow quickly discovered that despite the
M.S. Fiber Science
Conduct specialized research in an area of fiber science to create a novel solution to a materials challenge.
David Levitsky
I am driven by medical and economic consequence of age-related weight gain. Age-related weight gain is a description of the epidemiological fact that as we grow older, we are growing fatter. And the fatter we grow, the serious medical consequences become causing increased suffering financial costs. We have been studying obesity for several hundreds of years and despite our knowledge of the consequence of obesity we cannot tell the public how to prevent from growing fatter. I