John F. Hoddinott
John Hoddinott is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Economics and Policy, Cornell University. Before coming to Cornell in 2015, he was a Deputy Division Director at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of poverty, hunger and undernutrition in developing countries. He has been heavily involved in primary data collection through living in a mud hut in western Kenya and a small town
Jere Haas
Jere D. Haas is the Nancy Schlegel Meinig Professor Emeritus of Maternal and Child Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, College of Human Ecology, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. He is also International Professor of Nutrition in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Science, and Professor of the Graduate School. He received his Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from the Pennsylvania State University and has been on the Cornell University faculty for 44 years
- Mar 4, 2025
- by Juan Vazquez-Leddon
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health
CHE and CCE partner with Hannaford to tackle childhood obesity
Hannaford has awarded Cornell University a $225,000 grant to study the causes of childhood obesity and promote programs to reduce obesity-related health risks. The funding supports collaboration with childhood obesity experts to determine community needs and create programs to address those needs.
Nearly 20% of children aged 2-19 are considered obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The project is led by Angela Odoms-Young, the Nancy Schlegel Meinig Associate Professor of
- Jan 24, 2025
- Holistic Human Health, Technology + Human Thriving
Objective feelings: New research suggests our brain tells us feelings are reality
Feelings, although central to human existence, are our most mysterious and subjective sense. Feelings, we are told, are personal and internal, while reality is physical and external. New research published in Nature Communications combines machine learning, perception, neuroscience, and generative AI to reveal that the brain may treat feelings as real as any aspect of the physical facts of the external world.
It has been long understood that feelings and emotions emerge from a complex
- Nov 15, 2023
- Technology + Human Thriving, CHE in NYC
Student entrepreneurs pitch ideas at Cornell Tech event
Rachel Dunifon
Rachel Dunifon is the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of the College of Human Ecology. As dean of the college since 2020, she led the development of Vision 2030, which unified the college's scholarship around the themes of health equity; sustainability and society; and technology and human health. She has overseen the creation of the Action Research Collaborative, the Purpose Science & innovation Exchange, the Joan Klein Jacobs Center for
