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A Cornell researcher’s bold redesign of firefighter gear, which hasn’t significantly changed in decades, is more versatile and better adapted to their actual work, only a small fraction of which involves fighting structure fires.

A new Cornell-led report shows protecting nutrition now depends on integrating food and health systems as climate shocks strain both at once.

Grocery shopping online could help SNAP families access healthy foods, especially for those with young children or long commutes to grocery stores.

Who: a nutrition researcher improving public health

Roger Figueroa, an assistant professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, investigates how food assistance programs — from traditional benefits like SNAP to innovative approaches like produce prescriptions and online grocery delivery — alleviate food insecurity in New York State and across the country.

Figueroa’s first introduction to public health began as a youth in Puerto Rico, where his physical education teachers inspired him to become the

The Program for Research on Youth Development and Engagement at the Bronfenbrenner Center is helping youth educators understand how to foster a sense of purpose in the young people they serve.