The nutritional concerns of women, infants, and children and developing effective interventions to address these concerns are the focus of my scholarly work. Our research group is using electronic communications technology to help pregnant and postpartum women develop and maintain behaviors that promote healthy body weights. This project involves faculty and students in the Communications Department, as well as, the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell and faculty collaborators at the University of Rochester Medical Center. The integrated mobile phone and interactive web site interventions are currently being evaluated in a randomized controlled trial in Rochester, NY. Our group recently completed a major extension-outreach project (the Healthy Start Partnership) focused on building the capacity of community-based, rural health and nutrition professionals to design and implement environmental interventions promoting healthy weights in women and their infants. We just published an evaluation of the impact of the Healthy Start Partnership on women's weights and their infants' rates of growth in the first 6 months of life this year. We also recently published an article on the relationship between the rural food environments in which the women live, their diets, and body weights.