- Apr 5, 2024
- by Michael DiGrado '25
- Technology + Human Thriving
Wearable tech expert Galina Mihaleva inspires as Designer in Residence
In March, the Department of Human Centered Design (HCD) welcomed internationally acclaimed designer Galina Mihaleva as the 2023-2024 designer in residence. Mihaleva, an artist, fashion and wearable technology designer and educator, is an associate professor at ASU FIDM, part of Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Her artistic practice and research highlight the dialogue between body and dress, driven by the idea of having both a physical and a psychological
- Oct 27, 2023
- by Emily Groff
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health, Sustainability + Society, Technology + Human Thriving
New CHE grant funds sustainability research
Cornell Human Ecology has awarded six faculty members with grants to support research projects related to sustainability over the 2023-2024 academic year.
The projects range from helping New York State nutrition programs support sustainable food systems, to developing self-powered on-skin computers, to expanding a program that trains retirees as environmental volunteers, reflecting Human Ecology’s interdisciplinary approach to understanding the human experience and helping people thrive.
This first round of the CHE Faculty Sustainability Research Program
Nancy M. Wells
Nancy Wells is an environmental psychologist who studies people's relationship to the built and natural environment through the life course. Her studies have focused on residential environments -- housing and neighborhoods -- and more recently schools. Dr. Wells completed a joint PhD in Psychology and Architecture at the University of Michigan; and then NIMH post-doctoral training at the University of California, Irvine.
I-An Su
I-An "Amy" Su is a sixth-year Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology with a concentration in Law, Psychology, and Human Development in the Department of Psychology (formerly Department of Human Development) at Cornell University. She is also on the track for a Ph.D. Minor in Statistics (Applied Statistics) and a Graduate Minor in Cognitive Science.
She works in Professor Stephen J. Ceci's Child Witness & Cognition (CWC) Lab on a transnational study of children's eyewitness memory and
Alan Hedge
Alan Hedge is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design (formerly Design and Environmental Analysis), Cornell University. His research and teaching activities focused on issues of design and workplace ergonomics as these affect the health, comfort and productivity of workers. His research themes included workstation design, computer ergonomics and carpal tunnel syndrome risk factors for workers, alternative keyboard and input system designs, the performance and health effects of postural strain, and the
- Sep 26, 2025
- by Laura Reiley, Cornell Chronicle