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Alumni
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.
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.
Gary Bettman ’74, the longest-tenured commissioner in the history of the four major North American sports leagues, was honored with the Sports Business Journal's 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 14th annual Sports Business Awards on May 24 in New York City.
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.
Barry J. Beck ’90 will be recognized as the 2023 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year at the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration, held Thursday and Friday, April 13-14 at Statler Hall.
Union leadership during a volatile labor-management period will be discussed by NFLPA President JC Tretter '13 and Professor Harry Katz in a Nov. 1 webinar.
Advocating for Worker Health and Safety in the NFL
Since joining the National Football League Players Association as its general counsel & head of business, Sean Sansiveri ’05 has been behind the NFL’s most important measures to make the game safer.
The Bluemercury founder honored by Entrepreneurship at Cornell as the Cornellian who exemplifies entrepreneurial achievement, impact on humanity and an inspirational story or business outcome.
Three New Scholarships Focus on First-Generation Students
ILRie Carmen Molinos ’94 and her husband, Mark DeAngelis ’91, MPA ’92, establish three endowed undergraduate scholarship funds intended to support first-generation students in the ILR School, the Brooks School of Public Policy and the College of Human Ecology.
Hundreds gathered in Manhattan to celebrate awards won by Russell Hernandez ’88 and David M. Cohen ’73 for career achievements and service to the ILR School.
The new professorship will allow the ILR School to recruit and retain top faculty talent in areas of labor relations including collective bargaining, labor law, labor history and dispute resolution.
Postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students will conduct innovative research on the future of work, labor and employment through the generosity of an anonymous funder.
Mark Kreynovich ’19, who was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and fellow Cornellian Dillon Carroll '20, who grew up in New Jersey, dropped everything to travel to Eastern Europe shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
David Cohen '73 and Russell Hernandez ’88 will receive ILR’s top alumni honors when their achievements and support of the ILR School are celebrated April 28 at The Pierre in New York City.
