- Sep 25, 2024
- by Courtney Livecchi
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice, Student Life
New York State 4-H members give back with the Youth Contribution Project
The Contribution Project, an initiative that helps college students make a difference in ways they find meaningful, is expanding to teenagers throughout New York state through a new partnership with 4-H.
Anthony Burrow, director of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR) and the Ferris Family Associate Professor of Life Course Studies in the College of Human Ecology (CHE), started the Contribution Project on the belief that youth have ideas about how they can meaningfully
- May 12, 2023
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice, Alumni
Dr. Jacqueline Ann Davis-Manigaulte '72, Helen Bull Vandervort Alumni Achievement Award 2023
Jackie Davis-Manigaulte ’72 serves as the Family and Youth Development Program Leader and Director of Community Relations for Cornell University Cooperative Extension’s NYC Programs (CUCE-NYC). She earned her B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies (CHE ’72), her M.S. in Home Economics with a Nutrition Education focus (NYU, ’83), and her Ed.D. in Adult Education (Columbia University Teacher’s College ’08). Jackie’s aim in coming to Cornell in 1968 was to become “the best teacher in
- Oct 10, 2025
- Holistic Human Health, Technology + Human Thriving
Kimberly Kopko on NY bell-to-bell school phone ban
In this video, Kimberly Kopko, senior extension associate and director of The Parenting Project, explains why limiting cell phone use in classrooms reduces distractions and supports learning, encourages face-to-face interactions, and allows schools to create plans that support their communities.
Visit The Parenting Project website to find more research-based resources for parents.
Angela Poole
Dr. Angela Poole is an assistant professor of Molecular Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences. The overarching goal of her research group is to modulate the interactions between host factors, dietary intake, and oral and gut microbes, to prevent and manage diseases. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and applied science from Caltech. Afterwards, she was a research associate in a nutrition lab that studied the genetics underlying macronutrient preference using a
- Jan 12, 2026
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Holistic Human Health, Technology + Human Thriving
Who, what, why: Marla Lujan investigates physiology to improve reproductive health
Who
Marla Lujan, associate professor of nutritional sciences, has been collecting data on ovarian morphology for 15 years. She stumbled into this research area by accident. She was investigating primate reproduction when she was asked to change her focus to another understudied population — women.
Lujan completed her postdoctoral studies in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Saskatchewan, where she spent three years working in an infertility clinic. During her clinical experience
Meng Wang
I am a hematology physician scientist fascinated by how nutrition and metabolism can cause DNA damage in our body, how this can affect ageing and cancer, and motivated to translate this knowledge to novel therapy.
I am a MD PhD graduate from University of Cambridge, UK. My PhD was with Professor Michael Neuberger at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology focusing on B cell immunology. I completed my residency clinical training at King’s College Hospital in
Andre Bensadoun
Dr Bensadoun's professional expertise is in lipid transport and more specifically in the biochemistry, structure and function of lipolytic enzymes(lipoprotein lipase and hepatic lipase) and lipase-binding proteins such as heparan sulfate proteoglycans(syndecans and glypicans) and GPIHBP1 (glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchored HDL binding protein).