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Faculty
ILR Faculty Awarded 2030 Project Grants
Ian Greer and Virginia Doellgast have been awarded a grant to examine the future of electric vehicles and explore the union, managerial and policy approaches to mitigate disruption to workers.
ILR undergraduates with financial need will benefit from a scholarship established by former students thankful for the critical thought and logic skills shared by Michael Gold.
Doellgast Appointed Anne Evans Estabrook Professor
The relationship between labor market and collective bargaining institutions, inequality and job quality is the research focus of Professor Virginia Doellgast.
Burton Appointed Joseph R. Rich ’80, M.S. ’86, Professor
A professorship named in honor of an alumni passionate about compensation studies is now held by a faculty member who leads the ILR institute focused on pay.
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology has named Susanne Bruyére a fellow for changing the course of her field and is publishing a book she co-edited about neurodiversity in the workplace.
Michael L. Huyghue, CALS '84, who teaches a sports business class in the ILR School, has provided recommendations for improving diversity, equity and inclusion in hiring practices and is meeting with each team’s leadership
Professors Emeritus John M. Abowd, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Tove Helland Hammer, Robert Hutchens and William J. Sonnenstuhl were lauded at a retirement celebration Monday.
John Abowd, the Edmund Ezra Day Professor Emeritus of Economics, Statistics and Data Science, is the inaugural recipient of the 2022 Edward Lazear Prize from the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE).
A grant for an investigation of how workers in China exercise their voice on social media, and how that affects managerial practices and the authoritarian state’s decision making, has been awarded to Assistant Professor Duanyi Yang.
Associate Professor Emily Zitek, Associate Professor David Matteson and Graduate Recruiting and Outreach Coordinator Darrie O'Connell have been honored with State University of New York Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.
New Data Ethics Online Certificate Spearheaded by Liz Karns
ILR Senior Lecturer has partnered with eCornell to launch a new program giving data science practitioners tools to build ethics into every project phase and data science workplace.
Each year, the ILR School sponsors the Philip Taft Labor History Award, given to the best book published in the previous year on the subject of labor and working-class history.
What Happened at the Amazon Warehouse on Staten Island?
When a union-free tech giant was upended by a worker-founded union at a Staten Island warehouse April 1, the world was shocked. ILR experts are contextualizing what led to the surprise win and what’s next.
Matteson Launches 'Data Science in Science' Journal
Associate Professor David Matteson has launched an open access, international journal highlighting original research at the intersection of science and data science.
The Labor and Employment Relations Association will honor Professor Sarosh Kuruvilla June 3 for extraordinary contributions to the industrial relations field.
John Abowd, the U.S. Census chief scientist and associate director for research and methodology, and Cornell’s Edmund Ezra Day Professor Emeritus of Economics, Statistics and Data Science, shares his journey in this “International Statistical Review” story.
ILR's Jason Judd served as a guest lecturer in a new course offered by the Department of Human Centered Design – FSAD 3200: Global Textile & Apparel Sustainability.
“Culture, Social Class, and Experience of Positive Stereotypes” to be investigated during a yearlong fellowship with one semester in residence at the Cornell Center for Social Sciences.
Many have turned to Nellie Brown, director of Workplace Health and Safety Programs at the ILR School, for guidance on how to keep their offices safe from COVID-19.
