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ILRies Learn from NFL Pro

JC Tretter ’13 returned to the ILR School lecture hall Monday where he learned how to think critically, understand others’ perspectives and negotiate – skills he has wielded to help shape the labor-management dynamic in America’s most-watched sport.
JC Tretter '13 speaks in Associate Professor Adam Seth Litwin’s “Introduction to ILR” course in Ives 305.
ILRies Learn from NFL Pro

Kids Don’t Need to Love Salads to Maintain Healthy Weight

Cornell Chronicle
Parents can positively influence a child’s health without imposing lots of food they don’t like, says Professor Michèle Belot, whose new research tracked 300 lower-income families in the U.K. over three years.
A young boy refusing to eat an apple
Kids Don’t Need to Love Salads to Maintain Healthy Weight

James T. Carter Q&A

James T. Carter received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2023 and has held numerous education and human resource services positions. He joined ILR’s Department of Organizational Behavior in Fall 2023.
James Carter
James T. Carter Q&A

“Stories of Belonging” Highlights Journeys of Central Americans

A traveling exhibit highlighting the intersections of racism, dispossession and migration grew out of LR Worker Institute Executive Director Patricia Campos-Medina’s doctoral thesis.
Jose Urias is featured in "Stories of Belonging"
“Stories of Belonging” Highlights Journeys of Central Americans

Groat and Alpern 2025 Recipients Announced

Scott Buchheit, M.S. ’77, will receive the ILR School’s 2025 Groat Award and Linda Gadsby ’88 will receive the 2025 Alpern Award on April 24 at The Pierre Hotel in New York City.
Groat and Alpern screen
Groat and Alpern 2025 Recipients Announced

ILR Panel Discusses Collective Bargaining in Women’s Professional Hockey

A discussion focused on the evolution of, and challenges facing, women’s professional hockey was hosted on Monday by ILR International Visiting Fellow Kelly Pike, ’03, Ph.D. ’14.
Kelly Pike, ’03, Ph.D. ’14, Digit Murphy, CALS ’83, Brianne Jenner, A&S ’15, and David Doorey
ILR Panel Discusses Collective Bargaining in Women’s Professional Hockey

Government Intervention Key to Fixing Inequality in Health Care Facilities

Cornell Chronicle
Rosemary Batt ’73, the Alice Cook Professor of Women and Work, has co-authored a policy brief suggesting that U.S. policymakers and regulators rethink the way government finances are allotted to health care facilities.
Outside of a hospital
Government Intervention Key to Fixing Inequality in Health Care Facilities

Professor Paul Ortiz Featured in ‘Game-Changing’ PBS Series about Latinos

Cornell Chronicle
One of ILR's recently hired professors, Paul Ortiz, served as an adviser and on-camera expert for “American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos,” a three-part docuseries premiering Sept. 27 on PBS.
Paul Ortiz preparing to speak on camera for new PBS documentary
Professor Paul Ortiz Featured in ‘Game-Changing’ PBS Series about Latinos

Story of Chinese Laborers Told Through Kheel Center Items

Cornell Chronicle
The history of labor organizations and worker issues in China is the focus of Keywords of Chinese Labor: An Exhibition, opening this month in an art gallery in Brooklyn.
Sean Chang of Catherwood Library and Claire Deng of the Kheel Center look through some of the China Labor Collection files in the Kheel Center.
Story of Chinese Laborers Told Through Kheel Center Items

Kenya Year Launched International Interest

After 50 years of teaching in the Ivy League, Gary Fields retired this year as the John P. Windmuller Professor of International and Comparative Labor. His work has taken him to many countries, earned him the acclaimed IZA Prize and stretches to 14 pages on his CV.
Gary Fields at his retirement party in the summer of 2024
Kenya Year Launched International Interest

Why So Much Disagreement?

The more novel an idea, the more varied its perceived value, Associate Professor Devon Proudfoot and her co-author found.
A group of office workers disagree over an idea
Why So Much Disagreement?

Professors Win Latin@/x Caucus Best Book Award

Shannon Gleeson and Xóchitl Bada are being honored for “Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power.“
Head shot of Associate Professor Shannon Gleeson
Professors Win Latin@/x Caucus Best Book Award

“You Create Your Own Story”

The MILR admissions team provided support through the application process, graduate says.
“You Create Your Own Story”

HR Strategy Learnings: Aboud’s Executive Master’s Program Journey

Months before graduation from the ILR School’s EMHRM program, Christina Aboud was offered multiple job opportunities.
HR Strategy Learnings: Aboud’s Executive Master’s Program Journey

NY at Work Report: Cost of Living Most Critical Issue

Cornell Chronicle
Drawing on expertise, research-based data and policy analysis on a range of issues affecting the state’s workers, unions, communities and employers, the fourth annual New York at Work report is intended to serve as an informative, accessible and relevant resource for policymakers and the public.
NY at Work Report: Cost of Living Most Critical Issue

Cornell Keynotes podcast: Mismanaging hybrid teams

Cornell Chronicle
In a new episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell, professor Brad Bell, director of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies at Cornell’s ILR School, shares ways that hybrid teams are mismanaged and presents strategies for effectively managing hybrid teams.
Cornell Keynotes podcast: Mismanaging hybrid teams

Pioneering Professor Took Risks

Francine Blau, among the first economists to research gender pay inequities, retires from ILR as an internationally acclaimed authority.
Pioneering Professor Took Risks

Cornell Keynotes Podcast: Neurodiversity Inclusion Policies and Practices at Work

Cornell Chronicle
In a new episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell, Susanne Bruyère, director of the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, joins host Chris Wofford to discuss the growing number of corporate affirmative hiring programs to recruit individuals who are neurodivergent.
Cornell Keynotes Podcast: Neurodiversity Inclusion Policies and Practices at Work

WIDE Student Fellows Expand Their Understanding of DEI

Workplace Inclusion and Diversity Education fellows learn about the theory of diversity, equity and inclusion in classes, then practice it in internships.
WIDE Student Fellows Expand Their Understanding of DEI

More Complaints, Worse Performance When AI Monitors Work

Cornell Chronicle
Organizations using AI to monitor employees’ behavior and productivity can expect them to complain more, be less productive and want to quit more – unless the technology can be framed as supporting their development, ILR research finds.
More Complaints, Worse Performance When AI Monitors Work

ILR’s Early International Path Chronicled

John Windmuller created ILR’s first international and comparative relations course in 1951 and taught it for 36 years, inspiring generations of students to think globally.
ILR’s Early International Path Chronicled

Belot Research Investigates Employment Match Quality

The quality of an employment match is an important aspect of understanding labor market dynamics, according to Professor Michèle Belot, but measuring match quality presents many challenges. In new research,
Belot Research Investigates Employment Match Quality

M.S. Degree a Conduit for Making Positive Change for Workers

"If you're thinking about having an impact on workers, you won't find a better program,” says Irfan Surya Asgani, M.S. ’24.
M.S. Degree a Conduit for Making Positive Change for Workers

Kahn’s Curiosity about Workers Led to Career

U.S. gender pay gap changes and sports economics issues are leading research areas for Professor Lawrence Kahn, retiring after 30 years at ILR.
Kahn’s Curiosity about Workers Led to Career

ILR Announces Six New Faculty

The ILR School will welcome six new faculty members who begin July 1.
ILR Announces Six New Faculty

Faculty Promotions Announced

Eight ILR School professors have been named as associate and full professors.
Faculty Promotions Announced

Abowd Honored for Advancing Computing Field

An ILR emeritus professor has “transformed the government’s capacity to improve the accuracy and availability of vital statistical and data resources,” according to the Association for Computing Engineering.
Abowd Honored for Advancing Computing Field

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