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Joy Kim is a Ph.D. student in Human Nutrition working in Dr. Marla Lujan's lab. She earned a B.S. in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University and went on to complete a dietetic internship at the NIH Clinical Center, concentrating in clinical nutrition research. After earning her registered dietitian (RD) credential, she worked as a Research Associate at Texas A&M University in the Vanden Brink Lab, where she studied the role of nutrition and metabolic health

Fast fashion is often understood as a recent business model defined by speed, low cost, and disposability. Yet many of its challenges—labor exploitation, environmental harm, and the normalization of overconsumption—have much deeper historical roots. This talk traces the emergence of “fast fashion” through the lens of nineteenth- and twentieth-century shifts in media, merchandising, and consumer culture at large, showing how notions of “progress” and “prosperity” helped obscure the human and environmental costs of mass-produced clothing

As a society, we talk about fashion – a lot! What we do to and put on our bodies, the social and economic value of those products and processes, and the identities into which we might step by participating in fashion/style/dress are constantly being reconstituted through the text and images published at a near constant rate into the contemporary media landscape. In this talk I will share what I have learned from more than a

Dr. Mehta is a physician with training and expertise in nutrition, epidemiology, infectious disease, and diagnostics. He is currently the Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University and serves on its executive leadership team. He is also the Founding Director of the Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health and co-director of the NIH-funded Center for Point of Care Diagnostics for Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer

Dr. Claes is a management scholar (Ph.D., INSEAD) who investigates the socio-cultural construction of worth in markets—how different audiences evaluate producers and their outputs. In fashion and luxury, he studies how evaluative schemas, status cues, and design choices are read by critics, buyers, and media, and how those interpretations translate into visibility, placements, price premia, and talent mobility. Extending the same lens to financial markets, he examines how AI intermediaries, social similarity, and the use of