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Marlen Z. Gonzalez, assistant professor of psychology, has frequently heard behavioral scientists say “context matters” when trying to make sense of problems caused by human behavior. 

Her answer: Align the science of human behavior with the science of behavioral ecology, or how animals – in this case, humans – interact with their environment. In a comment published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, Gonzalez and Marissa Rice, a postdoctoral researcher in Gonzalez’s Life

Sociologist and gerontologist Karl Pillemer has launched an online training program– one of the first in the U.S. – on family estrangement and reconciliation. Pillemer is the founder of the Cornell Family Estrangement and Reconciliation Project which conducted the first national survey on estrangement. The project also conducted in-depth interviews with hundreds of estranged individuals and interviews with therapists.

“We know estrangement affects a lot of people and causes enormous amounts of psychological distress,” Pillemer

During the early days of the pandemic, Anthony Ong, professor of psychology, made a curious observation: Some of his friends were thriving in isolation. Yet others have felt lonely even when surrounded by others.

Ong, who is also professor of gerontology in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, knew that loneliness and isolation had negative health effects, including on cognition, and that older adults were especially at risk. Some studies had investigated whether loneliness or

Last week Yazdi Bagli, executive vice president of IT and business enterprise services at Kaiser Permanente, spoke to students in DEA 4500 Policy Meets Design: High-impact Facilities of the 21st century and met with students from the Health Design Innovation Lab, directed by Rana Zadeh. This marks Bagli’s third year returning to campus to speak with and mentor our students.

Bagli discussed the differences between systems thinking and design thinking, and the importance

The Journal of Nutrition (JN) has announced the creation of Malden Nesheim Nutrition Landscape Award, developed in partnership with Cornell Human Ecology in honor of nutrition researcher and academic leader Malden “Mal” Nesheim, Ph.D. ’59. The award will recognize authors who publish a critical review or perspective on an emerging or significant topic impacting the field. 

“Mal is a globally recognized legend in nutrition science, and top-quality reviews are invaluable to JN readers, in

Mary Kate Koch Ph.D. ’22 won the 2023 Hershel D. Thornburg Dissertation Award, which recognizes outstanding scholastic promise in research on adolescence, from the Society for Research in Adolescence. She received it at the SRA’s annual meeting, April 13 to 15, in San Diego.  

The award recognized Koch’s work studying individual, social and cultural aspects of the psychology of puberty and adolescence in American youth. Her dissertation, “In Whose Words? Experiences at Puberty

Director, writer and designer Walé Oyéjidé, spoke, dined with students and premiered a film at the annual Nixon Distinguished Lecture Series on April 20. His talk, “Beauty is the Weapon of the Future,” highlighted the ways he uses his multi-faceted design work to raise awareness of the complex issues of migration and celebrate the perspectives of marginalized people.

Oyéjidé explained to the predominantly student audience that one’s life path is circuitous and that there