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I am a behavioral and evolutionary neuroscientist. The goal of my teaching and research endeavors is to explain how phenotypic variation in vertebrate brain organization leads to adaptive behavioral phenotypes. I communicate these ideas through the courses that I teach and the seminars and symposia that I particiapte in each year both nationally...

Rui Hai Liu is a Professor in the Department of Food Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Liu received his Ph.D. in Toxicology from Cornell University, and also holds a M.D. and a M.S. in Nutrition and Food Toxicology. Dr. Liu’s research program is focused on diet and cancer, the effects of functional foods/nutraceuticals on chronic disease...

I worked in the brewing industry for 18 years before I became an academic, holding positions from Research Associate to Director of Research (the last 8 years) at the Stroh Brewery Co. in Detroit. I joined Cornell at the Geneva Experiment Station in 1990 as a Full Professor. I served as Chair of the Food Science & Technology Dept. for the first...

Dr. Krasny is not accepting new graduate students at this time. Marianne Krasny's teaching and outreach focuses on climate education and advocacy. In 2026, she launched the Food, Farms, and Climate (free) Substack, where she writes for public audiences about food systems, climate, lifestyle actions, and environmental policy. Each article closes...

Jun "Kelly" Liu did her postdoctoral research at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Embryology, where she was awarded a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship. She joined the faculty at Cornell in late 2001, and is currently a member of the Graduate Fields of Genetics, Genomics & Development (GGD) and Biochemistry...

Professor Tammo Steenhuis received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1978’ He is a Professor in Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bahir Dar in Ethiopia, working with Ph.D. graduate students. He is also a fellow of the American Geophysical Union...

My training prior to joining Cornell is in Physics, Physiology and Neuroscience, primarily working on the interactions between our body and the food we consume, and how this shapes our preference. The mammalian taste system consists of many complex events which take a simple receptor activation at the taste bud, to a rich and emotional response...

Nathalie Trottier’s research has primarily focused on amino acid metabolism and nutrition in livestock species, particularly pigs and horses. Her investigations have addressed the following: Examining amino acid metabolism and mammary gland function to improve milk production efficiency in sows (pioneering research in lactation biology) Optimizing...

Ashley Helmholdt is the Adult Program Leader and Extension Associate for Cornell Garden-Based Learning. She is the Seed to Supper Coordinator and Master Gardener Volunteer Program leader for the state Cornell Cooperative Extension associations, and her work provides horticulture educators with inspiring, research-based gardening resources and...

Eunyoung Myung is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Action Research Collaborative (ARC) at Cornell University. Her research interests focused on media use and its consequences in the context of health. Within this domain, her research specifically focuses on two topic areas: (a) what individual characteristics, such as sociodemographic and...