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Faculty
Professor Collins Honored
The National Academy of Human Resources recognized ILR Graduate Studies Director Chris Collins for his teaching, research, mentoring, leadership and other contributions to the industry.
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.
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.
Besky Awarded NSF Grant to Co-Direct Cornell-Led Project
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.
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.
Faculty Offered Guidance for Teaching in the Age of ChatGPT
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.
Bronfenbrenner Receives Grant to Study Unionization Efforts
ILR Labor Education Research Director Kate Bronfenbrenner will lead a team of ILRies studying the differences between unionization efforts that are affiliated with the National Labor Relations Board and those that are not NLRB-affiliated.
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.
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.
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.
Matthew Saleh Wins Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Award
Senior Research Associate at Yang-Tan Institute recognized for his work on career pathways for youth with disabilities and other barriers to employment.
Four ILRies Named Center for Social Sciences Faculty Fellows
The program seeks to nurture the careers of Cornell’s most promising faculty members in the social sciences by providing time and space for high-impact social scientific scholarship.
Revealing processes through which workplace inequality emerges, and how workers and their advocates respond, is at the heart of Professor Shannon Gleeson’s scholarship.
In appreciation for teaching that welcomes differing views, Eric Wagner ’92 is supporting the Worker Institute Undergraduate Student Research Fellows Program.
Peter Bamberger, Ph.D. ’90, research director of ILR’s Smithers Institute and a Tel Aviv University professor who has written a book on exposing pay, is among the experts who will speak at a Tuesday event.
