Human Ecology magazine, Summer 2020

Human Ecology Magazine Summer 2020

Human Ecology magazine is one way to stay connected to the College!

Join us here to catch up on some of the great work of our alumni, students and faculty.

Alumni spotlight: Dr. Eki Shola Abrams

Message from the Dean

Face Mask Design Competition

Women’s Suffrage and CHE

Engaged Scholar Award funds student projects

Ballet and books

2020 Engaged Scholar Prize

Rachel Dunifon

The Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean

COVID-19

Human Ecology responds

MVR Hall renovations complete

Move-in begins

New CHE leadership

Undergraduate affairs, research and graduate education, BCTR, CPC

Design@Cornell

Roundtable connects Cornell’s disciplines

Classroom innovation

Mock war game over soda taxes

HumEcathon 2020

Student-run hackathon tackles campus reactivation

Student and Career Development

Holistic approach helps students

Living green

Staff sustainability events

Enhanced MRI facility

Weill Cornell radiologist leads the way

Lewis receives Weiss teaching award

One of eight at Cornell

Cassano named Alan D. Mathios Professor

Recognized for outstanding record of research, leadership and teaching

Human Ecology Green Awards

Rewarding commitment

Outstanding graduating seniors

Distinction in challenging final year

Rhodes Scholar

Nina Acharya '19

U.S skating champion

Karen Chen '23

SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

Five win for excellence

Concerto competition winner

Joy Zhang '21

Human Development appointments

Reyna and Wang stand out in their fields

2020 Schwartz Awards

Poole one of two life scientist winners

Staff Achievement Awards

Human Ecology celebrates

Kopko named U.N. rep

Appointed by World Organization for Early Childhood Education

Brainerd elected to Society of Experimental Psychologists

Landmark research in basic memory, mathematical psychology and cognitive development

Cornell nutrition research informs WHO guidelines

Gold standard for high-quality evidence for medicine and public health

NIH grant funds non-pharmacological pain research

Brings together Ithaca campus, Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornel Tech researchers

Red meat, processed meat hike heart disease risk

Victor Zhong, nutritional sciences

After free lunch from drug firms, doctors increase prescriptions

Colleen Carey, policy analysis and management

Green space and crime

Mardelle Shepley, design + environmental analysis

Early development and social thinking

Lin Bian, human development

Augmented reality can improve online shopping, study finds

Fatma Baytar, fiber science & apparel design

Weaving craft techniques with on-skin tech

Cindy (Hsin-Liu) Kao, design + environmental analysis

Black Excellence: Fashion that prevails

Curator Sian Brown MA'20

Full Circle: Back to our roots, upcycled art exhibition

Sponsored by the CHE Green Team

HEAA President's Corner

2020 Sloan Alumni Association awards

NYC panel discussion

The State of the American Dream

Following a dream

Dr. Eki Shola Abrams '99

Television pioneer

Lucy Jarvis '38

Designing for comfort and confidence

Martha Moore '82

Making a difference

Andrew Siwo '08

The importance of people

Michael Held '92

Change superhero

Kamillah Knight '13, MPA '15

Client focused

Amy Bodek '90

Hope after tragedy

Suzi Hileman '73

Human Ecology magazine is a free publication of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. The summer 2020 issue is exclusively online due to challenges related to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Past issues of Human Ecology magazine can be found on our website.

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