Susan Ashdown
Susan P. Ashdown, Emerita Professor, joined the College of Human Ecology faculty in 1991 on completion of her Ph.D research at the University of Minnesota on the topic of perception of apparel fit. Previous to this she completed her MA degree in functional apparel design at Cornell. She taught at Cornell from 1980 to1988 in the College of Arts and Sciences and from 1991 to 2018 in the College of Human Ecology. The questions that informed her research and
Christine Tanner
Program in Dietetics
Develop the knowledge and skills to pursue a career as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RD/RDN).
- Mar 12, 2024
- by Michael DiGrado '25
- Holistic Human Health
Burrow shares research on purpose at White House youth policy summit
Anthony Burrow, Ferris Family Associate Professor of Life Course Studies in the Department of Psychology, shared his research on the benefits of having a sense of purpose in life at the White House Youth Policy Summit on February 13.
The summit was an opportunity for nearly 90 young adults to meet with cabinet secretaries and representatives from federal agencies, experts in adolescent development and leaders of youth-serving organizations and learn from one another about
- Aug 22, 2025
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Technology + Human Thriving, CHE in NYC
For Kim ’09, design is about the journey
When the refurbished 68th Street Hunter College subway station reopened on Manhattan’s Upper East Side earlier this year, commuters were greeted by three vibrant mosaics.
In decorating the station, the MTA looked to the work of oil painter Lisa Corinne Davis to celebrate the neighborhood’s diversity and opportunities. Cornell Human Ecology’s (CHE) Eddy Man Kim ’09 brought Davis’s vision to life as a design consultant for the project. He translated Davis’s intricate paintings into large-scale
Gaeul Han
Eve De Rosa
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
