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Research findings helped students learn how to change norms around alcohol, hazing, sexual assault and mental health.
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.
“Achieving Greater Worker Voice, Equity, and Mobility: A Multi-Industry Study of Organizing Efforts and Their Outcomes,” will be led by Labor Education Research Director Kate Bronfenbrenner and MIT Professor Thomas A. Kochan.
Creighton, Saleh are 2021-22 Engaged Learning Fellows
Cathy Creighton, Buffalo Co-Lab director, and Matthew Saleh, Yang-Tan Institute research associate, have been named two of Cornell’s 2021-22 Faculty Fellows in Engaged Learning.
IBM executive Carla Grant Pickens joins ILR Dean Alex Colvin and ILR Associate Professor Vanessa Bohns on the latest episode of WORK! to discuss what has been learned during the pandemic about workplace conflict and the role of influence.
To have any hope of rising to the existential challenge of climate change, the nations of the world must invest in electric vehicles. Arthur Wheaton says in the U.S., the push will need to come from the government.
Described as “an anthropology of labor that is sharply attuned to the irreversible effects of climate change, extinction, and deforestation,” book wins Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize.
Grant to Fund Conference on Climate Change in South Asia
A Cornell-led international team of researchers, including ILR's Sarah Besky has received a $65,000 grant from the NEH for its project, “The Next Monsoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia.”
“Advancing Racial Equity at Work,” a course designed by Assistant Professor Courtney McCluney, is among eight national winners of an Aspen Institute Ideas Worth Teaching Award.
The Latino Coalition of New Jersey has honored Worker Institute Executive Director Patricia Campos-Medina for her work on behalf of laborers, undocumented immigrants and domestic workers.
