Misha N. Ailsworth (formerly Inniss-Thompson)
Misha N. Ailsworth (formerly Inniss-Thompson) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University. Dr. Ailsworth received her doctorate in Community Research and Action at Vanderbilt University. She is an alumnus of Cornell's Department of Human Development. During her undergraduate career, she was a Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Scholar.
Dr. Ailsworth’s research examines the impact of families, communities, and schools in shaping Black girls’ mental health and wellness using a cultural-assets perspective.
Daniel Berry
Daniel Berry, Ph.D. is the Andre Bensadoun Associate Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. He graduated from State University of New York at Cortland with a BS degree in Biology with a concentration in Environmental Science. He received a PhD degree in Molecular Nutrition from Case Western Reserve University and performed his postdoctoral studies in the Department of Developmental Biology and the Division of Endocrinology at the University of Texas Southwestern
Christina Stark
Prior to retiring in 2019, I was the Program Leader for Cornell NutritionWorks, an online professional development program for nutrition and health practitioners. As Program Leader I oversaw the content and structure of the website, plus developed marketing and evaluation strategies. For 38 years I was responsible for interpreting and communicating research-based information on food and nutrition issues to extension educators, other professionals, consumers, and the media.
My most recent interests focused on providing continuing professional education to
Patricia Ann Cassano
Patricia A. Cassano, MPH, Ph.D., is the Alan D. Mathios Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University. The Division of Nutritional Sciences is in the Colleges of Human Ecology and Agriculture and Life Sciences. Dr. Cassano served as Interim Director (2018-2019), then as Director of the Division of Nutrition Sciences (2019-Jan 2024). She is also Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences Division of Epidemiology at Weill Cornell Medical College, and she
- Sep 5, 2025
- by Anthony D. Ong and Frank D. Mann
- Holistic Human Health
The lifelong consequences of social connection
This article originally appeared on the Character & Context Blog from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
The ties that bind — and fray
Using data from over 6000 participants in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study, we developed a new way of measuring social well-being across early life and later adulthood. This measure of cumulative social advantage looks at the number, quality, and supportiveness of people’s relationships — from childhood caregivers