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ILR Announces 2025 McPherson Honors and Awards

The 32nd annual ILR School McPherson Honors and Awards Dinner occurred April 29 at the Statler Hotel.
McPherson Award trophies
ILR Announces 2025 McPherson Honors and Awards

Health Care Cooperatives Could Hold Key to Easing Elderly Caregiver Shortage

Home care cooperatives may be the key to alleviating the shortage of paid caregivers for older Americans, according to a new study co-authored by Ariel Avgar, Ph.D. ’08, and Dr. Madeline Sterling, A&S ’08, director of ILR’s Initiative on Home Care Work.
Scheinman Institute team helping measure results of healthcare restructuring
Health Care Cooperatives Could Hold Key to Easing Elderly Caregiver Shortage

Q&A with Jian Zou

Jian Zou, whose two-year Future of Work Fellowship began in July, is working with Professor Michael Lovenheim and Associate Professor Evan Riehl at ILR.
Jian Zou, Future of Work fellow
Q&A with Jian Zou

Home care workers unaware of AI’s role and potential benefits

Cornell Chronicle
A study led by co-authors Nicola Dell and Ian René Solano-Kamaiko reveals that home care workers are unaware of the artificial intelligence (AI) systems being implemented in their workplace and highlights the need for greater transparency.
home care-with-nurse
Home care workers unaware of AI’s role and potential benefits

Bohns Named to Braunstein Professorship

Vanessa Bohns has been named ILR’s Braunstein Family Professor. The Cornell Board of Trustees approved the professorship, which began Nov. 1.
Associate Professor Vanessa Bohns in the hallway of the Ives Faculty Building.
Bohns Named to Braunstein Professorship

MLB’s International Latino Players, Coaches Face Challenges Despite Diversity Efforts

Cornell Chronicle
Using Major League Baseball as a case study, Cornell research highlights potential shortcomings in diversity metrics that could obscure inequities in sports and other organizations.
An overhead view of PNC Baseball Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
MLB’s International Latino Players, Coaches Face Challenges Despite Diversity Efforts

Jonathan Lam ’27 Honored by Amnesty International USA

ILR junior Jonathan Lam was recently named the inaugural recipient of the Trailblazer in Organizing and Activism Award given by Amnesty International USA.
Jonathan Lam ’27 speaking at the People Power Awards ceremony during Amnesty International USA's Annual General Meeting, held in February at the Westin Book Cadillac in Detroit.
Jonathan Lam ’27 Honored by Amnesty International USA

New GLI-Schroders Toolkit Provides Framework on Climate Risk Resilience and Adaptation

The ILR School’s Global Labor Institute (GLI), in collaboration with Schroders – a global investment management company – has published the first-ever climate adaptation guidance for investor engagement with firms.
Flooded buildings and streets
New GLI-Schroders Toolkit Provides Framework on Climate Risk Resilience and Adaptation

Negotiation and Gender Bias Among Townsend’s Research Interests

Charlotte “Charlie” Townsend, a post-doctoral associate in ILR’s Department of Organizational Behavior, joined the school in August as a Future of Work fellow. She studies gender, stereotypes, negotiations, work-family conflict, gender roles, diversity and hierarchy.
Charlie Townsend, Cornell ILR Future of Work fellow.
Negotiation and Gender Bias Among Townsend’s Research Interests

Group Offers Skills, and Friendship, to Local Students with Disabilities

Cornell Chronicle
ILRie Kathryn Erich ’26 is an active member of the TST-BOCES Career Skills Club and serves as the group's public relations chair.
TST-BOCES student Isa Santos (left) works with her teacher Helen Staller (center) and Kathryn Erich '26 (right), public relations chair for the TST-BOCES Career Skills Club. Photo courtesy of Sreang Hok/Cornell University.
Group Offers Skills, and Friendship, to Local Students with Disabilities

Pambianchi ’90 Offers Insight on Obtaining Success in Hatfield Lecture

Cornell Chronicle
In a conversation with Cornell President Michael I. Kotlikoff, Christy Pambianchi '90, reflected on her more than 30 years of experience as a human resources officer as Cornell’s 42nd Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education.
Sreang Hok/Cornell University Christy Pambianchi ’90 delivers the Hatfield Lecture in Ives Hall. Photo courtesy of Sreang Hok/Cornell University.
Pambianchi ’90 Offers Insight on Obtaining Success in Hatfield Lecture

Kheel Center Honors Student Archival Research

Cornell Chronicle
Celine Chauviere’s paper “Rosie the Riveter’s Untold Story: African American Women’s Intersectional Struggle” earned her the 2024 Kheel Center Award for Undergraduate Research, which celebrates outstanding scholarship using the center’s archives.
Celine Chauviere ’25 (second from right) receives the Kheel Undergraduate Research Award from librarians and curators (left to right) Haven Hawley, Jim DelRosso, and Steven Calco at an April 9 awarding event.
Kheel Center Honors Student Archival Research

Q&A: Tariff Impacts on Apparel Workers and Fashion Industry

Jason Judd, executive director of ILR’s Global Labor Institute, addressed questions about the potential impacts of U.S. tariffs on workers in apparel-producing countries and on the fashion industry.
Q&A: Tariff Impacts on Apparel Workers and Fashion Industry

Quantum Statistical Approach Quiets Big, Noisy Data

Cornell Chronicle
A team of Cornell statisticians, including ILR Professor Martin Wells, has developed a way to handle and simplify large data sets more efficiently than traditional methods when the data gets too big.
Quantum Statistical Approach Quiets Big, Noisy Data

ILR School’s Impact on New York State

The NYS Public Impact report is a window into how ILR applied research, data shares, tools and training inform labor, economic and other issues at the heart of daily life for many of the state’s 20 million residents.
ILR School’s Impact on New York State

Forrest Briscoe Q&A

Forrest Briscoe, who joined the ILR faculty in the fall of 2024, is the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor in Industrial and Labor Relations. He teaches and researches organization theory and strategic management.
Forrest Briscoe Q&A

Cost of Living is Top Issue for Empire State Poll Respondents

Cornell Chronicle
The 2025 Empire State Poll is a window into New Yorkers’ daily lives, needs and concerns related to labor and employment. The data is collected to help guide policymakers, legislators, unions, employers and advocates in understanding and addressing opportunities and challenges for workers, families and communities statewide.
Cost of Living is Top Issue for Empire State Poll Respondents

Report: Erie Co. Working Women Earn Less, And They Know It

Cornell Chronicle
Women working in Erie County simultaneously experience lower pay and more significant barriers to success relative to men, according to a new report released by the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab.
Report: Erie Co. Working Women Earn Less, And They Know It

Cook-Gray Lecture Will Examine Transformative Labor Movement

Annelise Orleck, professor of history and co-chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College, will deliver the 2025 Alice Cook-Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture on April 15.
Cook-Gray Lecture Will Examine Transformative Labor Movement

Do Women in the U.S. Still Earn Less than Men?

Cornellians
Francine Blau ’66, an alumnae who’s an ILR professor emerita weighs in on the gender pay gap—how it has narrowed, and why it persists.
Do Women in the U.S. Still Earn Less than Men?

Kricky Ksiazek, MPA ’13 Honored for Community-Engaged Innovation

Cornell Chronicle
Kricky Ksiazek, Civic Researcher and High Road Fellowship Coordinator at the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, is one of 13 faculty members from across Cornell being honored by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement with this year’s Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards.
Kricky Ksiazek, MPA ’13 Honored for Community-Engaged Innovation

Solar Solutions: Workers Face Challenges in Renewable Energy Sector

Cornell Chronicle
Researchers at the ILR School’s Climate Jobs Institute (CJI) are helping to ensure the solar workforce is treated as fairly and equitably as employees in other industries.
Solar Solutions: Workers Face Challenges in Renewable Energy Sector

Puritan Work Ethic, Capitalism to be Discussed in Konvitz Lecture

Elizabeth Anderson, who specializes in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences, will deliver this year’s Konvitz Lecture on March 27 at 4:30 p.m.
Puritan Work Ethic, Capitalism to be Discussed in Konvitz Lecture

Matteson and Colleagues Use AI to Better Understand Nanoparticles

Cornell Chronicle
A team of scientists led by Professor David S. Matteson has developed a method to illuminate the dynamic behavior of nanoparticles, which are foundational components in the creation of pharmaceuticals, electronics, and industrial and energy-conversion materials.
Matteson and Colleagues Use AI to Better Understand Nanoparticles

Blau: New Policies Needed to Jumpstart Stalled Gender Equity in Labor Market

The United States is at a crossroads in the path toward gender equity in the labor market, according to Fran Blau ‘66, Frances Perkins Professor of ILR and professor of economics, emeritus, at the ILR School.
Blau: New Policies Needed to Jumpstart Stalled Gender Equity in Labor Market

Many in Tompkins County Do Not Earn a Living Wage: ILR Researchers

The 2025 living wage for a single adult living alone in Tompkins County is $24.82 per hour, but almost half of the county’s 48,894 wage earners earn less than that, according to ILR School researchers.
Many in Tompkins County Do Not Earn a Living Wage: ILR Researchers

Upgrading Skills, Downgrading Women’s Work in China

Assistant Professor Yiran Zhang has published a pair of papers exploring the garment supply chain in China – both factory jobs and informal, home-based ones that have sprung up out of need as women try to make money while also serving as “companion mothers” to their school-aged children.
Upgrading Skills, Downgrading Women’s Work in China

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