- Dec 12, 2025
- Holistic Human Health
Hanlon advances personalized nutrition through microbiome research
Kalem Hanlon's work sits at the intersection of dietary fiber, the gut microbiome and precision nutrition: a field that explores how genetics, environment and microbiome composition shape individual responses to food.
After experiencing gut issues for much of his life, he became driven to uncover why the same food can benefit one person while offering no advantage, or even discomfort, to another. And when he's not studying how diet shapes microbial health in the Angela
- Dec 22, 2025
- by Juan Vazquez-Leddon
- Technology + Human Thriving
Scholars trace purpose through history to today’s insights
What is your purpose? It’s a question that you may have asked yourself before, perhaps using it as a compass for your life’s direction. Anthony Burrow, professor of psychology and director of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR), studies purpose, a central, self-organizing life aim which influences one’s goals, behaviors, and sense of meaning. Studies show that purpose can positively impact one’s health, wellbeing and personal development.
People have theorized about purpose since
- Dec 22, 2025
- by Caitlin Hayes, Cornell Chronicle
- Student Life
Kotlikoff to December grads: ‘Meet the future with confidence’
More than 500 graduates and 2,000 friends and family celebrated at the 23rd December Recognition Ceremony on Dec. 21.
- Dec 17, 2025
- Student Life
2025 Year in Review
Cornell’s impact was felt near and far, from the lacrosse fields to research labs and beyond in a turbulent 2025.
Gary Evans
Professor Evans is an environmental and developmental psychologist interested in how the physical environment affects human health and well being among children. His specific areas of expertise include the environment of childhood poverty, children's environments (housing, schools, playgrounds, toys), cumulative risk and child development, environmental stressors, and the development of children's environmental attitudes and behaviors.
- Dec 4 ,2025
- Nutritional Sciences
- Zoom
Constructing the Investment Case for Nutrition: Progress and Pitfalls
NS 6980 Seminar in International Nutrition
These seminars are sponsored by the division's Program in International Nutrition. They are held Thursdays during the fall and spring semesters. The full schedule is available on the Program in International Nutrition (PIN) website.
A one-time registration per semester is required to join the PIN Seminar on Zoom. Register here: bit.ly/PINregister then follow the instructions you receive by email to join by Zoom. Questions? Contact the pindirector [at] cornell.edu (Program in)
- Dec 1, 2025
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice, Technology + Human Thriving
Cornell researchers awarded grant to advance tuberculosis diagnostics
A project led by Cornell’s Center for Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection and Cancer to develop a low-cost, battery-powered device for sample preparation in tuberculosis (TB) testing in areas with limited lab access and infrastructure, has received a $250,000 grant from the Gates Foundation.