- Sep 15, 2025
- by Caitlin Hayes, Cornell Chronicle
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice
Beloved nutrition programs for low-income NYS residents set to end
Implemented by Cornell Cooperative Extension and partners, SNAP-Ed New York helped hundreds of thousands of low-income New Yorkers improve their diet and overall health every year.
- Oct 1, 2025
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice
Cornell partnership to improve early childhood services statewide
The Action Research Collaborative, housed in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, is partnering with a New York state agency to strengthen early childhood care and education across the state.
Nathaniel Vacanti
- Feb 10, 2026
- Holistic Human Health
Full-fat dairy is back. But nutrition experts say it might not be so simple.
New federal dietary guidelines are reshaping the conversation around full-fat dairy, but the science, experts say, isn’t so simple.
In a recent story examining updated recommendations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Sander Kersten, the director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences, offers important perspective on the evolving evidence.
“This is such a complex subject,” Kersten said. “You can weigh the evidence very differently
Joy Yuri Kim
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
Elisabeth Anne Larson
Lisa is a former professional ballet dancer who earned her Bsc. in Clinical Nutrition from New York University, summa cum laude. While there, she engaged in the research and public health communities of New York City-- she spent time working in an eating disorder research unit at Columbia University, as well as working on nutrition education initiatives and harm reduction strategies for formerly homeless new yorkers living with HIV. She subsequently also worked at Columbia
