Minor in Nutrition and Health
Examine how nutrition impacts human health and well-being and discuss social, economic, and psychological issues around food.
Carol Devine
During her time at Cornell, Dr. Devine focused on understanding how working women and men, especially those in low income families with children, manage food and eating in the context of work and family demands, social networks, and food and eating environments and on fostering community environments that promote healthy eating.
Christina Stark
Prior to retiring in 2019, I was the Program Leader for Cornell NutritionWorks, an online professional development program for nutrition and health practitioners. As Program Leader I oversaw the content and structure of the website, plus developed marketing and evaluation strategies. For 38 years I was responsible for interpreting and communicating research-based information on food and nutrition issues to extension educators, other professionals, consumers, and the media.
My most recent interests focused on providing continuing professional education to
- Sep 14 — 18 ,2026
- The Human Ecology Commons
Human Ecology Unplugged
Cornell Unplugged is a new initiative to encourage students, faculty and staff to be as unplugged as possible throughout the week of Sept. 14-20. As part of this initiative, we will be hosting Human Ecology Unplugged. Review the series of events, activities, and opportunities to put down your phone, close your laptop and connect with others or yourself.
Visit the Human Ecology Unplugged table in the Commons to:
- Grab a board game, puzzle, conversation starters
- Jan 26, 2023
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Technology + Human Thriving
Students’ business uses data science and AI to improve fit
Human Centered Design Ph.D. students Wenjia Zong and Yoon Yang took their start-up business, Lacuna Technology, to phase one of the eLab—an accelerator program for student startups. “We are trying to develop an algorithm to create better patterns based on body shape,” said Zong, Lacuna’s chief executive officer, who is studying with Fatma Baytar, assistant professor of Human Centered Design and director of the Fashion and Body Tech Lab.
Lacuna Technology is developing a
Richard Canfield
My overarching scholarly goals, which are to generate knowledge and understanding of developmental change in perceptual, cognitive, and related neurobehavioral functions during human infancy and early childhood, and to use this knowledge to improve children’s health, well-being, and developmental potential. My work includes studies of normative development and also studies of the impacts of environmental factors that influence developmental processes and outcomes. The environmental factors I have focused on most are prenatal and early postnatal
