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Shay, Park Named Miller Scholarship Winners

The annual awards provide funding to graduate students for conducting research.
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Shay, Park Named Miller Scholarship Winners

Bronfenbrenner Partnering with HBCUs to Study Black Worker Organizing

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Kate Bronfenbrenner, Jobs with Justice and the Center for Economic Policy Research have secured a $450,000 grant from WorkRise for a project to improve economic security and mobility for low-wage workers and create a more equitable labor market in the South.
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Bronfenbrenner Partnering with HBCUs to Study Black Worker Organizing

Custodian to National Union Leader: an ILRie’s Journey

An ILR student helped establish the United Auto Workers Local 2300, which now represents Cornell building maintenance and service workers.
Al Davidoff ’80
Custodian to National Union Leader: an ILRie’s Journey

Groat-Alpern 2024 Awards Announced

Two Class of 1988 alumni will receive the ILR School’s highest awards on April 18 in New York City.
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Groat-Alpern 2024 Awards Announced

Wendy Strobel Gower Challenges Assumptions at Work

With a professional mission of challenging assumptions about limits around disability, Wendy Strobel Gower is the new Thomas P. Golden Executive Director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability.
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Wendy Strobel Gower Challenges Assumptions at Work

Einhorn Center Announces New Engaged Faculty Fellows

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ILR's Claire Concepcion and Katrina Nobles have been named Engaged Faculty Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year.
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Einhorn Center Announces New Engaged Faculty Fellows

Remembering the Triangle Fire

The Kheel Center, ILRies and Cornellians carry on the collective action legacy that grew from the Triangle Factory Fire disaster.
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Remembering the Triangle Fire

Tompkins County Living Wage Sees an ‘Unprecedented’ Increase

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ILR researchers have calculated the 2023 living wage for Tompkins County - $18.45 per hour - is nearly 10% higher than in 2022, the highest increase in three decades.
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Tompkins County Living Wage Sees an ‘Unprecedented’ Increase

Report: Medicare Advantage Plans Cost More, Provide Less

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A new report co-authored by ILR Professor Rosemary Batt raises concerns about the growing use of private Medicare Advantage plans that are overpaid billions while providing lower quality care than traditional Medicare.
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Report: Medicare Advantage Plans Cost More, Provide Less

Cook-Gray Lecturer Emphasizes Empathy

Professor Amrita Basu, A&S ’75 brought to light the courageous resistance of Muslim women in their fight to overcome repression through peaceful demonstration and collective empathy.
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Cook-Gray Lecturer Emphasizes Empathy

ILR Alumna Takes on Hollywood Bosses

ILR School alumna Ellen Stutzman ’04 served as chief negotiator for the Writers Guild of America West as it won a new contract that provides pay increases, television series staffing protections, protections against Artificial Intelligence and other improvements for more than 11,000 workers.
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ILR Alumna Takes on Hollywood Bosses

Internal Hiring Discussed

An ILR professor who researches hiring practices and an ILR alumna who is the chief human resources officer at Harvard Business Publishing discussed the value of retaining employees.
JR Keller and Angela Cheng-Cimini ’92
Internal Hiring Discussed

Downsides of Reducing the Role of Standardized Exams in College Admissions

New ILR School research suggests that less informative college admission exams can reduce the graduation rates and earnings outcomes of both high- and low-income students.
Downsides of Reducing the Role of Standardized Exams in College Admissions

ILR Announces New Faculty

Four faculty members have joined the ILR School this semester.
ILR Announces New Faculty

‘Opting In’ to See Information Can Reduce Hiring Bias

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A new study from Assistant Professor Sean Fath offers a pathway to reducing bias in the hiring process while preserving hiring managers’ autonomy.
‘Opting In’ to See Information Can Reduce Hiring Bias

Doellgast Research Offers Insight into AI Protections for Workers

Taking lessons from Germany and Norway, Professor Virginia Doellgast demonstrates how different tactics can be used to protect workers from algorithmic management and AI technology abuses.
Doellgast Research Offers Insight into AI Protections for Workers

Besky Awarded NSF Grant to Co-Direct Cornell-Led Project

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A Cornell-led project team – with Global Hubs partners in India, the U.K, Ghana and Singapore – has received a two-year $250,000 design grant from the National Science Foundation to bring more comfortable days and nights to homes everywhere.
Besky Awarded NSF Grant to Co-Direct Cornell-Led Project

Cookie Day: ILR’s Sweetest Tradition

Catherwood Library’s 23rd annual Cookie Day features hundreds of locally sourced cookies, with triple chocolate added to the lineup this year, and cartloads of free books.
Cookie Day: ILR’s Sweetest Tradition

Pros and Cons of Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University

New research by Assistant Professor Evan Riehl shows that affirmative action can have benefits for students from disadvantaged backgrounds but also unintended spillover effects that negatively impact a university’s other students.
Pros and Cons of Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University

“Humble Leader” Celebrated

The Thomas P. Golden Courtyard was dedicated to a cherished ILR colleague whose extraordinary leadership advanced employment, equity and societal inclusion for people with disabilities.
“Humble Leader” Celebrated

ILR Hosts Albany Policymakers to Show Impact of State Funding

Representatives from both the NY State legislative and executive branches gathered on the ILR campus on Thursday morning to officially launch the New York at Work annual report.
ILR Hosts Albany Policymakers to Show Impact of State Funding

Gleeson, Lyon Lead Project Studying Labor Migration Programs

A seven-year, multi-university partnership will examine migrant workers and international mobility programs in New Zealand, also known as Aotearoa, Australia, Canada and the U.S.
Gleeson, Lyon Lead Project Studying Labor Migration Programs

Center for Applied Research on Work Launching

The center facilitates new partnerships within the ILR School and across Cornell to improve work, labor and employment.
Center for Applied Research on Work Launching

Climate Change Threatens Fashion Industry

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Extreme heat and flooding are threatening key international apparel hubs, with four countries vital to the fashion industry facing losses of 1 million jobs and $65 billion in earnings by 2030, according to two new reports out of the Global Labor Institute at Cornell University.
Climate Change Threatens Fashion Industry

Courtyard Commemorates Beloved Leader

As executive director of the Yang-Tan Institute at ILR, Thomas P. Golden changed the disability world.
Courtyard Commemorates Beloved Leader

Cook/Gray Lecture Slated for Oct. 23

Amrita Basu, A&S ’75 will present “Resisting Exclusion: Women’s Defense of Democracy in India” for the annual lecture series.
Cook/Gray Lecture Slated for Oct. 23

Faculty Offered Guidance for Teaching in the Age of ChatGPT

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Dean Alex Colvin was part of a university committee that has released recommendations for how faculty can take generative artificial intelligence into account when considering learning objectives for their students.
Faculty Offered Guidance for Teaching in the Age of ChatGPT

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