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Hecho en México: Alum Brings Authentic Flavors to Home Kitchens

Cornellians
Inspired by her cultural roots, Isela Hernández ’95 founded HERNÁN, which sells cookware, tableware and specialty foods from her family’s ancestral land.
Isela Hernández ’95
Hecho en México: Alum Brings Authentic Flavors to Home Kitchens

One M.S. Degree, Two Passions

What attracted Dylan Hatch M.S. ’25 to the ILR M.S. program was that it would allow him to combine his passions, and he has now graduated with enhanced qualifications for doing research to support justice in the labor movement.
Dylan Hatch
One M.S. Degree, Two Passions

Social Media Can Amplify Worker Voice, but Fades Over Time

Social media can influence workplace policies by amplifying worker voice but fail to drive meaningful workplace improvement when workers lack support from labor unions or civil society organizations, according to new research by Duanyi Yang, assistant professor in the ILR School.
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Social Media Can Amplify Worker Voice, but Fades Over Time

ILRie Harold Tanner ’52, Board Chairman Emeritus, Dies at 93

Cornell Chronicle
Harold Tanner ’52, chairman emeritus of the Cornell Board of Trustees, died June 14 in New York.
Harold Tanner ’52, chairman emeritus of the Cornell Board of Trustees, at Commencement 2013.
ILRie Harold Tanner ’52, Board Chairman Emeritus, Dies at 93

Five ILRies Win 2025 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence

Cornell Chronicle
Sarah Besky, Rhonda Clouse, Brian Lucas, Devon Proudfoot and Lisa Rose were amoung the 18 faculty and staff in Cornell’s four contract colleges who received the 2024–25 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.
The ILR banner hanging outside Ives Hall
Five ILRies Win 2025 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence

Working Together Emphasized at YTI Conference

Hosted by the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, the conference Working Together: Advancing Disability Inclusion in NYS Workplaces brought together leaders, providers, educators, and self-advocates for presentations and conversations.
Susanne Bruyere, speaking at the Working Together conference
Working Together Emphasized at YTI Conference

M.S. Program Leads to Job as Union Representative

The ILR School’s M.S. degree program has propelled Ariana Shapiro, M.S. ’25 to a job as a program representative with the New York State Nurses Association.
Ariana Shapiro, M.S. ’25
M.S. Program Leads to Job as Union Representative

Cornell Atkinson Awards Catalyze Solutions in Food, Climate, Clean Energy

Cornell Chronicle
Sarosh Kuruvilla and Jason Judd, of the ILR School’s Global Labor Institute, have secured a grant from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability to study apparel factories in Bangladesh and assess how they can adjust to the threat of climate change.
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Cornell Atkinson Awards Catalyze Solutions in Food, Climate, Clean Energy

Study: Tech Can Empower Home Care Workers, Not Just Surveil Them

Cornell Chronicle
A qualitative field study, which is part of the Initiative on Home Care Work in the ILR School’s Center for Applied Research on Work, is exploring how workplace tracking apps can be used not to surveil workers, but to help them build solidarity and improve their working conditions.
A home healthcare nurse stands with her iPad.
Study: Tech Can Empower Home Care Workers, Not Just Surveil Them

Kheel Center to Celebrate “ILR at 80” During Reunion Weekend Exhibit

An exhibition celebrating the history and evolution of the ILR School, from its founding in 1945 to the present day, will be on display in the Catherwood Library lobby as part of Cornell Reunion Weekend. 
ILRies utilizing the Kheel Center archives.
Kheel Center to Celebrate “ILR at 80” During Reunion Weekend Exhibit

ILR Hosts ILERA Conference on Transition to Electric Vehicles

The ILR School hosted a two-day ILERA conference that explored labor and the transition to electric vehicles. Organized in part by Ian Greer, Professor Harry Katz and Art Wheaton, the conference and its 35 attendees aimed to develop a global understanding of the EV shift and its consequences for workers.
Ian Greer leading a panel discussion at the ILERA conference on the transition to electric vehicles.
ILR Hosts ILERA Conference on Transition to Electric Vehicles

Lord Lauds M.S. Degree Focus on Research

A strategic campaign planner and organizer with Strippers United, Meagan Stoney Lord M.S. ’25 has found that the ILR School’s M.S. program has given her the tools to conduct the community-focused research that will assist her in the union’s fight for a more just and equitable workspace.
Meagan Stoney Lord M.S. ’25
Lord Lauds M.S. Degree Focus on Research

Two ILRies Receive SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

Cornell Chronicle
Alex Herazy ’25 and Shruthisri (Sri) Ravisankar ’24 were honored with the 2025 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
Two ILRies Receive SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

Gali Racabi Receives 2025 Carpenter Advising Award

Cornell Chronicle
Gali Racabi is one of four Cornell faculty members to win a Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, which recognizes the sustained and distinguished contributions of tenure-track faculty and senior lecturers to advising undergraduates.
Gali Racabi Receives 2025 Carpenter Advising Award

Student Group Focuses on Labor

Led by MS ILR students, the ILR School’s Graduate Labor Organization has expanded to include other Cornell students, particularly Ph.D. candidates studying sociology.
Student Group Focuses on Labor

Policies Erode Benefits Gained by Marriage for Foreign-Born Individuals

According to new research by ILR Assistant Professor Tristan Ivory, intermarriage between foreign-born and native-born citizens provides clear labor market benefits for the foreign-born partner that change depending on the reception of immigrants in the host country.
Policies Erode Benefits Gained by Marriage for Foreign-Born Individuals

Shelly Cerio ’92 Makes the Path to Cornell Even Wider

A new $1.5 million endowment established by Shelly Cerio ’92 will fund undergraduate affordability scholarships for multiple students at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations each year.
Shelly Cerio ’92 Makes the Path to Cornell Even Wider

Avgar, CAROW Awarded Grant to Document Home Care Worker Power

The ILR School and Weill Cornell Medicine have received a $300,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to administer a worker-focused survey of home health aides across the North and the South of the United States.
Avgar, CAROW Awarded Grant to Document Home Care Worker Power

ILR Announces 2025 McPherson Honors and Awards

The 32nd annual ILR School McPherson Honors and Awards Dinner occurred April 29 at the Statler Hotel.
ILR Announces 2025 McPherson Honors and Awards

Health Care Cooperatives Could Hold Key to Easing Elderly Caregiver Shortage

Home care cooperatives may be the key to alleviating the shortage of paid caregivers for older Americans, according to a new study co-authored by Ariel Avgar, Ph.D. ’08, and Dr. Madeline Sterling, A&S ’08, director of ILR’s Initiative on Home Care Work.
Health Care Cooperatives Could Hold Key to Easing Elderly Caregiver Shortage

Q&A with Jian Zou

Jian Zou, whose two-year Future of Work Fellowship began in July, is working with Professor Michael Lovenheim and Associate Professor Evan Riehl at ILR.
Q&A with Jian Zou

Home care workers unaware of AI’s role and potential benefits

Cornell Chronicle
A study led by co-authors Nicola Dell and Ian René Solano-Kamaiko reveals that home care workers are unaware of the artificial intelligence (AI) systems being implemented in their workplace and highlights the need for greater transparency.
Home care workers unaware of AI’s role and potential benefits

Bohns Named to Braunstein Professorship

Vanessa Bohns has been named ILR’s Braunstein Family Professor. The Cornell Board of Trustees approved the professorship, which began Nov. 1.
Bohns Named to Braunstein Professorship

MLB’s International Latino Players, Coaches Face Challenges Despite Diversity Efforts

Cornell Chronicle
Using Major League Baseball as a case study, Cornell research highlights potential shortcomings in diversity metrics that could obscure inequities in sports and other organizations.
MLB’s International Latino Players, Coaches Face Challenges Despite Diversity Efforts

Jonathan Lam ’27 Honored by Amnesty International USA

ILR junior Jonathan Lam was recently named the inaugural recipient of the Trailblazer in Organizing and Activism Award given by Amnesty International USA.
Jonathan Lam ’27 Honored by Amnesty International USA

New GLI-Schroders Toolkit Provides Framework on Climate Risk Resilience and Adaptation

The ILR School’s Global Labor Institute (GLI), in collaboration with Schroders – a global investment management company – has published the first-ever climate adaptation guidance for investor engagement with firms.
New GLI-Schroders Toolkit Provides Framework on Climate Risk Resilience and Adaptation

Negotiation and Gender Bias Among Townsend’s Research Interests

Charlotte “Charlie” Townsend, a post-doctoral associate in ILR’s Department of Organizational Behavior, joined the school in August as a Future of Work fellow. She studies gender, stereotypes, negotiations, work-family conflict, gender roles, diversity and hierarchy.
Negotiation and Gender Bias Among Townsend’s Research Interests

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