Graduate School Professor, Field of Nutrition

Faculty Fellow for Inclusive Mentoring, Cornell Graduate School

Professor Emerita, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Department of Psychology

Dr. Strupp has served as a Professor at Cornell University for over 30 years, with appointments in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Department of Psychology. Over this time, her research has focused on studying environmental influences (nutritional, neurotoxicant, drug exposure) that can adversely affect brain development and ultimate cognitive functioning, and testing potential therapies. Her current research focuses on the effects of maternal choline intake during pregnancy on offspring cognition, in both animal models and humans. Her animal studies in this area have provided exciting new evidence that maternal choline supplementation not only is beneficial to typically developing offspring but may also lessen the cognitive and neurological impairments produced by Down syndrome. Her ongoing human clinical trials (with collaborators Rick Canfield and Marie Caudill) are designed to evaluate whether the low choline intakes of most pregnant women represent a risk factor for child cognitive development, as well as assess the potential benefits of maternal choline supplementation during pregnancy.

In addition to her research, Dr. Strupp is actively involved in student advising – both undergraduate and graduate.  She is currently spearheading a new advising initiative in the Cornell Graduate School which provides guidance and support for graduate students. In 2015, she was awarded the Kendall S. Carpenter Advising Award, and in 2022, received the Cornell/CHE KON/Alumni Advising Award, both for excellence in advising.