- Apr 7 ,2026
- by Kristen Carter Elmore
- Cornell Human Ecology, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
- Martha Van Rensselaer Hall Room 1102 & on Zoom
Translational research minor info session
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.
- Apr 24 ,2026
- by Deborah Surine
- Nutritional Sciences, Cornell Human Ecology
- The Statler Hotel - 130 Statler Drive, Ithaca, NY 14853
Speaking Truth to Power About Weight Symposium
Join us for a dynamic, interdisciplinary symposium exploring the impact and intersections of weight stigma and weight-based discrimination across healthcare, policy, education and beyond. Leave equipped with research-grounded strategies, collaborative connections, and actionable tools to advance weight justice and drive meaningful systems change.
Sessions throughout the day with expert speakers from Cornell, across the country and the globe.
Online or in-person @ The Statler Hotel
Nathaniel Vacanti
- May 28 ,2026
- by Lynandrea Mejia
- Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
- Zoom
The Meaning of Extension in New York City
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
- 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
