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Researching the Psychology of Consent

According to Associate Professor Vanessa Bohns’ research, our social interactions impact others more than we realize.

Associate Professor Vanessa Bohns in the hallway of the Ives Faculty Building.
Researching the Psychology of Consent

Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Commitment Honored

Associate Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa’s contributions across the Cornell community have been recognized by the Cornell Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement and the Graduate and Professional Diversity Council.

Ifeoma Ajunwa
Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Commitment Honored

What is Shame?

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What is Shame?

Students Help Build Sustainability

ILR Global Service Learning program students launched a project with the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement in India to market and sell “palazzo pants.”

Katrina Torres ’21 and Alena Madar CALS ’21 have partnered with local tribal women in India to sell palazzo pants to provide income to indigenous communities.
Students Help Build Sustainability

“Idea Lab” Generates Reopening Scenarios

Teams of ILRies gathered virtually to brainstorm and present ideas for reopening the Cornell campus in the fall.

Salima Ali ’23, Pranjal Jain ’23 and Mohammed Islam ’23 were selected the winners of the first ILR Idea Lab
“Idea Lab” Generates Reopening Scenarios

Q&A With Sarah Besky

Get to know more about one of ILR’s nine new faculty members.

Sarah Besky is one of nine new ILR faculty members joining the school in fall 2020.
Q&A With Sarah Besky

Ryan McCurry ’20 Earns SUNY Graduate Fellowship

Cornell Chronicle

ILRie Ryan McCurry, who has focused his undergraduate studies on labor and employment law and patent law, is one of five students to be awarded a SUNY Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship to pursue an advanced degree.

Ryan McCurry '20 has earned a SUNY Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship to pursue an advanced degree.
Ryan McCurry ’20 Earns SUNY Graduate Fellowship

ILR Announces McPherson Honors and Awards

Students and faculty learned Thursday about ILRies receiving top awards for the 2019-2020 school year.

ILR Conference Center in the springtime.
ILR Announces McPherson Honors and Awards

ILR Welcomes New Faculty

Newly hired faculty will help ensure ILR's preeminence in work, labor and employment for decades to come.

Assistant Professor Tristan Ivory joined ILR in 2019.
ILR Welcomes New Faculty

Four Faculty Receive Named Professorships

Brad Bell, George Boyer, Kati Griffith and Louis Hyman will assume new titles July 1.

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Four Faculty Receive Named Professorships

Three ILRies Named 2020 Merrill Presidential Scholars

Cornell Chronicle

Seniors Daniel Bromberg, Malikul Muhamad and Juliet Remi were selected for their academic achievements, leadership and potential to contribute to society. The trio share the honor with a Cornell faculty member who have inspired them.

Merrill Scholar Malikul Muhamad, third row, fifth from left, traveled to India in summer 2018 along with Donna Ramil, associate director of the ILR School’s Office of International Programs, seated in front on right, as part of the India SVYM Global Servi
Three ILRies Named 2020 Merrill Presidential Scholars

Dear Me: Letters from the Class of 2020

Four years after welcoming them to ILR, Associate Professor Adam Seth Litwin followed up, sending 13 students letters they wrote to their future selves.

An image of the card Associate Professor Adam Seth Litwin sent to the 13 graduating seniors that took his irst Freshman Colloquium seminar in 2016.
Dear Me: Letters from the Class of 2020

Light Meets Tunnel

Quarantine has not dimmed the light of Ximena Chafloque ’24, an incoming ILRie who is the first member of her family to graduate from high school and attend college.

Ximena Chafloque ’24 poses with an ILR banner
Light Meets Tunnel

The Sky’s The Limit

As COVID-19 spread across the world, most Cornell students moved home and transitioned to online learning. An ILR sophomore is among the Big Red athletes who have continued to train during the suspension of collegiate competitions.

Theresa Grace Mbanefo shoots the ball over a defender during the Cornell Big Red women's basketball team's contest against Duquesne on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019 in Newman Arena in Ithaca, NY. (Eldon Lindsay/Cornell Athletics)
The Sky’s The Limit

U.S. Social Distancing Stabilized, But Did Not Reduce, Spread

Cornell Chronicle

Research conducted by a team of data scientists, engineers and public health experts at Cornell – including ILR’s David Matteson – and the University of Rochester, analyzed the effect of social distancing measures in all 50 states.

David Matteson Awarded Grant
U.S. Social Distancing Stabilized, But Did Not Reduce, Spread

ILRies in D.C.: Interning during the Pandemic

Six ILRies combined learning and work in the nation’s capital.

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ILRies in D.C.: Interning during the Pandemic

Students Study Global Garment Manufacturing in Cambodia

A winter session trip with the CU in Cambodia Program provided students the opportunity to study first-hand the complexity of the global supply chains in the garment industry.

Students participating in the CU in Cambodia program studied global supply chains in the garment industry.
Students Study Global Garment Manufacturing in Cambodia

ILR Announces Ithaca Co-Lab Initiative

New enterprise will expand connections between the school and community, and deepen ILR’s land-grant mission work in New York state.

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ILR Announces Ithaca Co-Lab Initiative

Atkinson COVID-19 grants could inform policy decisions

Cornell Chronicle

Lars Vilhuber to examine real-time consumer surveys on economic expectations during COVID-19 social distancing.

Lars Vilhuber
Atkinson COVID-19 grants could inform policy decisions

“WORK!” Returns with Episode 6 Now Available

Dean Colvin and Randi Weingarten ’80 discuss building community both in and out of labor unions, and the resulting activism that helps shape our society.

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“WORK!” Returns with Episode 6 Now Available

NLLI Webinar Series: Leading in a Time of Crisis

NLLI will be hosting a series of webinars constructed around NLLI’s three domains of leadership: personal mastery, organizational change, and movement building.

NLLI Webinar Series: Leading in a Time of Crisis
NLLI Webinar Series: Leading in a Time of Crisis

History Meets Anniversary

Three first-generation ILRies make history as winners of award named in honor of beloved ILR Professor Clete Daniel.

The medal and certificate given to the winner of the Clete Daniel Memorial Medal
History Meets Anniversary

“Fashioning a Response” to COVID-19

Worker Institute analysis illustrates the pandemic’s impact on fashion models.

Cornell Fashion Collective (CFC) Fashion Runway Show, Barton Hall; Credit: Jason Koski (UREL)
“Fashioning a Response” to COVID-19

Malikul Muhamad ’20 receives SUNY Chancellor’s Award

ILRie one of four seniors in Cornell’s land-grant colleges to be honored for excellence.

Malikul Muhamad ’20 is one of four Cornell seniors to receive the 2020 State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
Malikul Muhamad ’20 receives SUNY Chancellor’s Award

ILR School hub offers NYS-focused COVID-19 information

Cornell Chronicle

Aimed at informing workers, unions, employers and policy leaders across New York state, a COVID-19 and Work hub was launched April 16 and will be continually updated in the coming weeks by ILR faculty and experts.

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ILR School hub offers NYS-focused COVID-19 information

Zooming With Students, One Stats Class at a Time

In a massive class that went online when COVID-19 hit, Elizabeth Karns preserved core learnings while adding online office hours, pandemic statistical analysis and an extra measure of caring.

Senior lecturer Elizabeth Karns works at a computer in her office .
Zooming With Students, One Stats Class at a Time

Inside the Union Where Coronavirus Put 98% of Members Out of Work

Unite Here is fighting for its survival as 98% of its members have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus. Senior lecturer Kate Bronfenbrenner discusses the strategies that built the union.

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Inside the Union Where Coronavirus Put 98% of Members Out of Work

Alexander Colvin on impact of coronavirus on workers, companies

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Dean Alex Colvin appears on WSYR’s Newsmakers to speak with Dan Cummings about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on workers, companies and other organizations.

Newsmakers with Dan Cummings
Alexander Colvin on impact of coronavirus on workers, companies

US Gig Workers Confused by Coronavirus Financial Relief Aid

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The coronavirus has spurred the government to extend unemployment benefits to more workers, but the Worker Institute’s Maria Figueroa explains why many don’t know if they qualify.

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US Gig Workers Confused by Coronavirus Financial Relief Aid

How Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa Is Leading Cuomo's Coronavirus Response

ILR alumna Melissa DeRosa holds the highest appointed position in the state, serving as the right-hand staffer to Governor Andrew Cuomo, as New York deals with the unprecedented challenge of the coronavirus.

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How Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa Is Leading Cuomo's Coronavirus Response

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