- Apr 28, 2023
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Social Impact + Justice, Student Life
Nixon distinguished speaker challenges students to find authenticity and meaning in work
Director, writer and designer Walé Oyéjidé, spoke, dined with students and premiered a film at the annual Nixon Distinguished Lecture Series on April 20. His talk, “Beauty is the Weapon of the Future,” highlighted the ways he uses his multi-faceted design work to raise awareness of the complex issues of migration and celebrate the perspectives of marginalized people.
Oyéjidé explained to the predominantly student audience that one’s life path is circuitous and that there
- May 2, 2023
- Holistic Human Health, Sustainability + Society, Technology + Human Thriving
Cornell Center for Social Sciences names spring grantees
- Mar 6, 2023
- Holistic Human Health
Reah Chiong featured by Cornell Graduate School Student Spotlights
- May 25, 2023
- Sustainability + Society, Technology + Human Thriving
Cornell Atkinson awards $1.6M in seed grants
- Apr 6, 2023
- Holistic Human Health
‘Beige fat’ could hold key to age-related metabolism change
- Apr 21, 2023
- May 9, 2023
- by Sheri Hall
- Holistic Human Health
Psychology Ph.D. grad receives national dissertation award
Mary Kate Koch Ph.D. ’22 won the 2023 Hershel D. Thornburg Dissertation Award, which recognizes outstanding scholastic promise in research on adolescence, from the Society for Research in Adolescence. She received it at the SRA’s annual meeting, April 13 to 15, in San Diego.
The award recognized Koch’s work studying individual, social and cultural aspects of the psychology of puberty and adolescence in American youth. Her dissertation, “In Whose Words? Experiences at Puberty