Cornell Food and Brand Lab Internship 

Hometown: Paris, France

Undergraduate: Concordia University (Canada), 2013

Major/Minor: Marketing/International Business

Future: As of now, my tentative plan is to go to graduate school for a

degree more specialized in Food Marketing

 

Summer Projects:

Healthy Supermarkets Study, Food In Motion Study, Nutritional Facts

Colour Study, and Pleasure as a Function Study

 

Healthy Supermarkets Study: This study involved analyzing and

categorizing pre-obtained observations of consumer shopping behavior

and writing a paper about how supermarkets could encourage

consumers to eat more fruits and vegetables.

 

Food In Motion Study: This study involved designing a survey on

Qualtrics, running it online, analyzing the results and writing up a

paper about how implied motion can lead to biased perceptions of

freshness, appeal and health.

 

Advice for Future Interns:

This internship requires motivation and perseverance. However, once you have an idea or a project in mind that you really are passionate about, these will become natural. The Food and Brand lab is a very intellectually stimulating environment. Don’t be afraid to talk to Dr. Wansink or any other advisor about your ideas, even if you think they are not excellent. They might not be excellent ideas right now, but by telling and explaining your reason to believe they are, you might just be onto something very “neat”, so don’t hesitate!

 

In addition, once you leave the lab, the beautiful campus of Cornell and its surroundings are waiting for you: the plantations, the bell tower, the town of Ithaca and its nearby Gorges are extremely agreeable during the summer.