Jamie Dollahite
My expertise is in the area of nutrition education for limited-resource audiences that is designed to prevent obesity and chronic disease. Prior to my retirement, I lead the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program for New York State and provide program leadership in collaboration with the NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program--Education. I was active in national leadership for both programs. My research was closely integrated with the outreach
- Jan 31, 2024
- Holistic Human Health, Technology + Human Thriving
TRAILS AI Institute announces first round of seed funding
Malte Jung, associate professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, along with two Cornell alumni, are among the recipients of the inaugural round of seed grant from the Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society (TRAILS). The eight funded projects, totaling just over $1.5 million, will advance cutting-edge research and scholarship that spans AI design, development and governance.
TRAILS is a multi-institutional effort that
- Nov 22, 2023
- by Galib Braschler
- Holistic Human Health
Students find community in global public health curriculum
In their first year at Cornell, Ariel Schulsinger ’24, Maggie Shideler ’24 and Gabi Steinberg ’24 were placed in a group as part of Intro to Public Health, a required course for all Global and Public Health Sciences (GPHS) majors. They worked together to design an intervention for obesity — a dance program for middle-school girls in the Bronx — and presented it at a virtual symposium. Fast forward four years, and the same
Minor in Global Health
Put your knowledge and skills to work helping advance solutions to global or public health issues.
- Aug 30, 2024
- by Natalia Rommen
- Social Impact + Justice, Student Life, CHE in NYC
CHE launches internship in New York City
Cornell Human Ecology has launched a new summer internship program in New York City focused on urban studies, community engagement and professional development.
The internship program places student interns at partner sites across the city’s five boroughs. For this pilot year, three students focused on youth development and worked with the Boys & Girls Club of Harlem, a longstanding partner with the Cornell Action Research Collaborative. They helped implement programs like Youth Engagement and Action