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Melissa Conroy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Centered Design who specializes in knitwear design and cross-disciplinary creative collaboration.  She will discuss the differences and intersections between the disciplines of art, craft and design with an emphasis on understanding how the disciplines of art and craft can benefit the design process using hands-on processes. 

Research Associate in Fiber Science. My research focuses on the remediation and environmental fate of pollutants, and the analysis and degradation study of dyes on textile and archaeological samples. I also cooperate with other faculty on the projects of fabric evaluation, textile test and biodegradation. Teaching and training are my other duties. Currently teaching Fiber Chemistry class and training TAs for other Fiber Science classes. 

Senegal Alfred Mabry is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the neuroscience area of the Department of Psychology in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. He is working to characterize the heart-brain axis in Parkinson’s disease using magnetic resonance imaging. He aims to understand why people with Parkinson’s may struggle to perceive their internal bodily sensations and how interventions like exercise training reduce Parkinson’s symptoms.

In 2024, he was named a Cell Press Rising

Cornell Human Ecology and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research have a launched a new minor in translational research. 

Translational research is the process of connecting what scientists discover to what happens in the real world. Learn more about the curriculum, the requirements, how the minor can be applied to your major and how it may help you on your career path.

Maxwell Hartt, PhD, RPP, MCIP is the Director of the Population and Place Research Lab and an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen's University, Canada. He is currently a Fulbright Research Chair at Vanderbilt University and a Craig Dobbin scholar at University College Dublin. Dr. Hartt's research focuses on the geographies and policy implications of population change. His latest book, Aging Playfully, argues that play is an underappreciated, under-researched, and

NS 6980 Seminar in International Nutrition

These seminars are sponsored by the division's Program in International Nutrition. They are held Thursdays during the fall and spring semesters. The full schedule is available on the Program in International Nutrition (PIN) website.

A one-time registration per semester is required to join the PIN Seminar on Zoom. Register here: bit.ly/PINregister then follow the instructions you receive by email to join by Zoom. Questions? Contact the pindirector [at] cornell.edu (Program in)

This is part of the Talks at Twelve series from the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.

Jenny Weil Malatras ’02 is the executive director of Cornell University Cooperative Extension – New York City. Since June 2025, she leads all of Cornell’s extension efforts around nutrition, youth development, and family engagement in all five boroughs of the city.

While a full description of the talk is coming soon, Malatras will touch on Cornell’s current and