- Aug 30, 2024
- by Natalia Rommen
- Social Impact + Justice, Student Life, CHE in NYC
CHE launches internship in New York City
Cornell Human Ecology has launched a new summer internship program in New York City focused on urban studies, community engagement and professional development.
The internship program places student interns at partner sites across the city’s five boroughs. For this pilot year, three students focused on youth development and worked with the Boys & Girls Club of Harlem, a longstanding partner with the Cornell Action Research Collaborative. They helped implement programs like Youth Engagement and Action
Victoria Simon
I am Manager of the Human Nutritional Chemistry Service Laboratory (HNCSL) located in room 251 in the Human Ecology Building. This lab includes an IMMULITE 2000 Immunoassay system, a Magpix Multiplex Analyzer System, Dimension Xpand Plus Integrated Chemistry System, Synergy II Plate Reader and Plate Washer. Hematology equipment includes a Beckman Coulter AcTDiff2 hematology analyzer. Chromatographic equipment includes an Acquity UPC2 convergence chromatographic system with photodiode array detector, a Thermo LC/MS/MS with a TSQ Quantum Ultra mass
- Oct 29 ,2025
- Cornell Human Ecology
- MVR 1219
Designing for Dignity
Jennie Joseph, founder and president of Commonsense Childbirth and creator of the JJ Way, will discuss her model of evidence-based maternity care delivering readily accessible, patient-centered, culturally congruent care to people in "materno-toxic zones."
Commonsense Childbirth operates a perinatal training division, a clinical division, a national Midwifery school and the National Perinatal Task Force, a grassroots organization whose mission is the elimination of racial disparities in maternal child health in the USA.
A proud member
Sander Kersten
Sander Kersten, Ph.D. is the director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Schleifer Family Professor at Cornell University. Dr. Kersten received his MSc degree in Human Nutrition from Wageningen University in 1993, and his Ph.D. degree in Nutritional Biochemistry from Cornell University in 1997. After a postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Wahli at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, he moved back to Wageningen University in 2000 with a career development
