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October 3, 2025

ARC is helping to improve early childhood services statewide

ARC is partnering with a New York state agency to strengthen early childhood care and education across the state, with a strong focus on the childcare workforce. ARC will evaluate…
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August 4, 2025

The way you grew up may shape how your brain handles risk

How risk-averse are you? The answer might be based on how you and your brain adapted to the environment you grew up in, according to neuroscience researchers from the Life…
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March 6, 2025

Neuroscience helps teachers empower students and themselves

As a senior in the Inclusive Childhood Program at SUNY Cortland, Crystal Nuñez is sharpening her teaching skills in the Syracuse City School District. While she is learning how to…
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September 5, 2024

First year PhD students gain experience in NYC through ARC fellowship

This summer, two first year Ph.D. students gained hands-on experience conducting research with community partners in New York City through the Action Research Collaborative’s summer fellowship program. For both Rob…
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August 9, 2024

New York nutrition incentive program expands access to healthy produce

The Double Up Food Bucks Program—a nutrition incentive program aimed at increasing healthy produce access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) shoppers—is expanding. The Double Up Food Bucks (DUFB) is…
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July 11, 2024

Leak, Vashistha recognized for excellence in promoting diversity

Two faculty members have been awarded the university’s highest honor for excellence in research, teaching and service through diversity. Tashara M. Leak, associate professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences…
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July 11, 2024

Writing about identity, values can boost teens’ self-esteem

Providing teenagers opportunities to affirm positive aspects of their identities can help bolster their self-esteem over time and ease transitions to high school, new Cornell psychology research finds. In a…
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July 3, 2024

Cornell professor studying identity development among LGBTQ+ youth

Adam Hoffman, assistant professor of psychology, is exploring how LGBTQ+ youth develop social identity and how that process affects their mental health, self-esteem and other outcomes. He is conducting a…
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April 30, 2024

ARC researcher, Zeynab Jouzi, addresses food insecurity through an interdisciplinary approach

After two years with the Cornell Action Research Collaborative (ARC), Zeynab Jouzi, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow and researcher, reflects on the importance of using interdisciplinary approaches and participatory research to…
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April 18, 2024

ARC researcher, Eunyoung Myung, works to bridge the health equity gaps in New York communities

Eunyoung Myung, postdoctoral associate at the Cornell Action Research Collaborative, wants to understand the role communication plays in health and ultimately learn how media use can narrow the divide in…