The 2023 Cornell Graduate Diversity & Inclusion Awards winners include Claire Malcomb, an ILR Ph.D. student and ILR WIDE fellow in the Department of Organizational Behavior.
Lipsky Professorship Extends Legacy of ILR School Leader
The new David and Alexandra Lipsky Professorship in Dispute Resolution, endowed by the estate of David B. Lipsky ’61, a former dean and the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor Emeritus, and his wife, Sandy, will extend the legacy of one of the ILR School’s most beloved and inspirational leaders.
Lawrence M. Kahn, the Braunstein Family Professor and Professor of Economics, shared his expertise in productions hosted by the IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) and Princeton University.
Exhibit Celebrates Union Icon and Power of Collective
The “Norma Rae” movie immortalized unionizing efforts of southern textile workers that grew into a national boycott of cotton goods manufactured by a union-busting manufacturer. Kheel Center curators tell the deeper story.
Students’ career readiness and quantitative literacy are supported by a new minor that complements the new ILR curriculum with courses offering a deeper dive into data analysis.
For more than 300 days, Amazon workers talked with their peers to build relationships, trust and, ultimately, a union that many thought would never be possible, Amazon Labor Union leaders said at ILR during Union Days.
New Department Reflects ILR’s Global Relevance, Academic Excellence
Drawing on faculty expertise in labor relations, labor law, anthropology, economics, history, political science and sociology, the Global Labor and Work Department studies workers, employers and the government policies affecting them.
Funding from K. Lisa Yang '74 will support innovative applied research projects and foster collaborations across Cornell to address important societal issues linked to work.
With ‘Migrations,’ Big Red Scholars Navigate a World in Motion
The cross-disciplinary Global Grand Challenge - which includes a project led by Patricia Campos-Medina - explores how, and why, Earth’s beings are always on the move.
Celebration Honors Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year Barry Beck ’90
Barry Beck was honored during the Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s annual two-day Celebration conference, which also included various panels, talks and networking events, as well as eLab Demo Day and the announcement of the winners of three other competitions.
Gleeson to Discuss the Law and the Reality of Asylum
Professor Shannon Gleeson will join a prominent refugee and author and a renowned legal expert to discuss racism and xenophobia in U.S. refugee policy at the “Race, Refuge & Border Justice” keynote on Wednesday, April 26.
Yasmin Ballew ’23 and Anne Bugayong ’23 have been selected due to their outstanding achievements that demonstrate excellence in the areas of academics, leadership, campus involvement and community service.
Regional Town-Gown Conference Focuses on Labor, Employment
Community leaders and ILR School experts discussed issues such as childcare, remote and hybrid work, and housing and demographic trends at the Regional Town-Gown Conference, held April 18 at the Hotel Ithaca.
“Low-power” individuals can show more innovation when given the chance to “warm-up” to a creative task, according to research co-authored by an ILR faculty member who is an organizational behavior expert.
Increasing the Tompkins County minimum wage of $16.61 to a living wage would increase earnings for thousands of workers and reduce racial and gender disparities, according to a new Ithaca Co-Lab report.
