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As former Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics (through June 2018) and now Director of the Dietetic Internship (DI) (beginning July 2018) I assist students with the pursuit of a career in dietetics. The DI provides students with supervised practice in dietetics to qualify graduates to obtain the credential of Registered Dietitian/Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RD/RDN). My areas of expertise include clinical nutrition and management as it applies to the field of dietetics and health care settings. Areas of interest include

I am an architectural designer and researcher whose primary interest is research-driven design approaches to fitting objects, spaces, and experiences to human needs, capabilities, and behaviors.

Before coming to Ithaca, I was a faculty member at the University of Houston, and an Architectural Designer III at Perkins + Will. Prior to joining Perkins + Will, I was a faculty member at the University of Idaho and practiced as an architectural designer at SmithGroup, an American

Dr. Renata M. Leitão is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Centered Design at Cornell University. She is a graphic designer and social design researcher with extensive experience in intercultural and participatory projects with Indigenous and local communities. 

At the helm of the Pluriversal Futures Design Lab (PluriFutures), Dr. Leitão focuses on ontological and communication design. The lab's mission is to foster societal transformation towards new, flourishing futures. PluriFutures tackles the pressing environmental

Sang Leigh is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. Previous to joining Cornell, he was a Senior Principal Creative Technologist at Samsung Design Innovation Center and an assistant professor at Georgia Tech. He received his PhD from MIT Media Lab in 2018, before which, he was a software engineer at Samsung Electronics where he led the software development of eyeCan, an open-source DIY eye-mouse designed for people with motor disability.

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Daniel Casasanto is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Psychology at Cornell University and director of the Experience and Cognition Laboratory. He studies how the diversity of human experience is reflected in our brains and minds: how people with different physical and social experiences come to think, feel, and act differently, in fundamental ways. To study cognitive diversity across cultures, his lab conducts research on five continents, using methods that range from watching children

Dr. Hazan’s general area of interest is human mating and pair bonding.  Most of her research has been conducted within the framework of ethological attachment theory, which focuses on the predisposition of people of all ages to form strong interpersonal bonds.  Her initial work helped establish the theory’s usefulness for understanding and explaining individual differences in the way adults think, feel, and behave in their closest relationships.  More recently, she has been investigating the processes

My work takes a behavioral ecology perspective on understanding the reciprocal relationships between environments, brains, and behaviors in humans.  Specifically, my lab, the Life History Lab, looks at how social and physical affordances in development and in the present impact neural sensitivity to rewards and punishment, vigilance, cognitive load, and stress as well positive stimuli like social support and contemplative practices. These sensitivities can encourage certain behaviors and be influenced by them, creating emergent ecologies