Joy Yuri Kim
Joy Kim is a Ph.D. Candidate 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 on reproductive maturation
- Aug 8, 2024
- by Sheri Hall
- Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice, Technology + Human Thriving
Course guides professionals working with people estranged from family members
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
Andrea Parrot
Andrea Parrot Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University, where she has been teaching since 1981. She teaches courses in Contemporary Issues in Women's Health, Human Sexuality, the Global Perspective on Violence Against Women, Reproductive Health Policy, and Medical Ethics. Her research interests have revolved around women's health issues, sexual assault, infertility, and cross cultural women's health and violence against women. She earned her MS at SUNY
Elaine Wethington
Elaine Wethington is Professor Emeritus of Human Development and of Sociology. She is also adjunct Research Professor at the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.Since 2003 she has been Co-Director and Director of the Pilot Study Core (now Behavioral Intervention Development Core) for the Cornell Edward R. Roybal Center for Translation of the Behavioral and Social Sciences of Aging, the Translational Research Institute on Pain in Later Life. Her current research focuses on developing measures
- May 9, 2023
- by Sheri Hall
- Holistic Human Health
Psychology Ph.D. grad receives national dissertation award
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
Sander Kersten
Sander Kersten, Ph.D. is the director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Schleifer Family Professor at Cornell University. Dr. Kersten received his MSc degree in Human Nutrition from Wageningen University in 1993, and his Ph.D. degree in Nutritional Biochemistry from Cornell University in 1997. After a postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Wahli at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, he moved back to Wageningen University in 2000 with a career development
- 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