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Rachel Dunifon is the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology, where she leads efforts to connect knowledge with action to address society’s most pressing human challenges.

Since becoming dean in 2018, Dunifon led a transformative strategic planning process that expanded the college’s presence in New York City, recruited faculty in critical areas of excellence, strengthened public engagement and elevated the student experience. A centerpiece of Dunifon’s leadership

Dr. Julia Finkelstein is a Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and Professor of Epidemiology in the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the Director of the Maternal and Child Nutrition Program and co-Director of the Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health and Cochrane Center and WHO Collaborating Centre at Cornell University. Dr. Finkelstein is the Program Director

Develop the knowledge and skills to pursue a career as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RD/RDN).
 

My work can be best described as comparative cognitive neuroscience, which is characterized by two related approaches. One is a cross-species approach, comparing rat models of the neurochemistry of attention and learning to humans, focusing on the neurochemical acetylcholine. The other is an across the lifespan approach, examining the cholinergic hypothesis of age-related changes in cognition.

We use activity mapping from fMRI data to provide theoretical models that can then be more fully tested