- Oct 1, 2025
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice
Cornell partnership to improve early childhood services statewide
The Action Research Collaborative, housed in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, is partnering with a New York state agency to strengthen early childhood care and education across the state.
- Dec 2, 2025
- by Megan Pillar
Cornell Center for Social Sciences awards fall grants targeting $50M in external research support
- Nov 5, 2025
- by Marisa LeFalce
Flemmie Kittrell Visiting Scholar shares human-centered approach to maternal health
- Dec 1, 2025
- by Tom Fleischman, Cornell Chronicle
- Sustainability + Society, Technology + Human Thriving, Student Life
Bird-of-paradise inspires darkest fabric ever made
The color “ultrablack” has a variety of uses, including in cameras, solar panels and telescopes, but it’s difficult to produce and can appear less black when viewed at an angle. A Cornell lab has devised a simple method for making the elusive color.
- 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
- Jan 25, 2023
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Holistic Human Health
Human Centered Design faculty win design awards in research partnership
EYP, a Page Company has received two Touchstone Awards for evidence-based design for healthcare facilities thanks to research partnerships with Rana Zadeh, associate professor and Alan Hedge, emeritus professor, Department of Human Centered Design.
The projects used assessments and interviews with front-line practitioners to design positive interventions in two hospitals. Hypotheses were documented and surveys questions targeted feedback of specific environmental attributes relative to mitigating medical errors, adverse events, reduction in perception of excessive walking
- Oct 4, 2022
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Holistic Human Health, Technology + Human Thriving
Undergrad is first co-author on design for fast-disintegrating drug delivery
Emmy Hsiung '23, a fiber science major in the Department of Human Centered Design, is the first co-author on a recent paper on the use of nanofibrous webs for fast-disintegrating drug delivery. She has been working in Prof. Tamer Uyar’s NanoFibers and NanoTextiles Lab since her first year at Cornell.
“Research is rewarding when things work out but there are definitely challenges to get there,” said Hsiung.
Ondansetron is an antinausea drug. By embedding the