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Kerri Lee Alexander has joined Cornell Human Ecology as its inaugural director of social impact and justice. In this role, Alexander will develop and lead a college-wide strategy aimed at creating, advocating for, and sustaining a diverse community of faculty, staff and students with a climate of belonging and inclusion. This new position supports the college’s priority, laid out in the strategic Vision 2030, of building a flourishing Human Ecology community. 

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This article originally appeared on the Character & Context Blog from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

The ties that bind — and fray

Using data from over 6000 participants in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study, we developed a new way of measuring social well-being across early life and later adulthood. This measure of cumulative social advantage looks at the number, quality, and supportiveness of people’s relationships — from childhood caregivers

Anthony Burrow, the Ferris Family Associate Professor of Life Course Studies in the Department of Psychology, comments on Gen Z’s pursuit of meaning and purpose.

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Jai Khanna is a user experience researcher at Cisco. He uses mixed methods research to improve the company’s artificial intelligence and enterprise software. He helps product teams understand customer needs, behaviors and pain points and translates these insights into strategies and processes that improve products and the user experience.

Khanna earned his M.S. in Human Environment Relations from Cornell in 2023.

Q. What does your work look like day to day?

A. As a UX

Journaling about one’s identities from childhood through early adulthood helped ease symptoms among people experiencing moderate to severe depression.

Vitamin B12 deficiency disrupts mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle cells, according to research led by Martha Field, associate professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences.

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