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Faculty
Kenya Year Launched International Interest
After 50 years of teaching in the Ivy League, Gary Fields retired this year as the John P. Windmuller Professor of International and Comparative Labor. His work has taken him to many countries, earned him the acclaimed IZA Prize and stretches to 14 pages on his CV.
Cornell Keynotes Podcast: Neurodiversity Inclusion Policies and Practices at Work
Cornell Chronicle
In an episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell, Susanne Bruyère, academic director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, discusses the growing number of corporate affirmative hiring programs to recruit individuals who are neurodivergent.
John Windmuller created ILR’s first international and comparative relations course in 1951 and taught it for 36 years, inspiring generations of students to think globally.
An ILR emeritus professor has “transformed the government’s capacity to improve the accuracy and availability of vital statistical and data resources,” according to the Association for Computing Engineering.
Matt is fascinated by the law and its relationship to disability and criminal justice. He is an energetic teacher and researcher in Cornell University’s ILR School, and he has taken on roles involving equity in employment.
ILR Faculty, Staff Win 2024 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence
Cornell Chronicle
Four members of the ILR community – RuthAnn Rushmer, James DelRosso, Associate Professor Rebecca Kehoe and Assistant Professor Evan Riehl – were among 20 honorees.
Elizabeth Karns launched Integrated Ethics in Data Science in response to what she viewed as a disconnect between statisticians and the high-powered, high-consequence statistical models they are asked to build.
Four Faculty Receive 2024 Carpenter Advising Awards
Cornell Chronicle
Associate Professor Emily Zitek is one of four Cornell faculty members to receive the Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, which recognizes sustained and distinguished contributions of faculty members to advising undergraduates.
Get to know Andrew Wolf, an assistant professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work, whose research centers around how the labor movement and governments are responding to emerging labor market forms such as the gig economy.
Celebrating Cornell Luminaries in Mathematics and Statistics
In honor of Math and Statistics Awareness Month, we’re celebrating luminaries from the last century-plus, like ILRie Phil McCarthy, whose excellence helped establish Cornell as a leader in the field.
Faculty Awarded for Creative, Innovative Community Engagement
Cornell Chronicle
Esta Bigler, director, ILR's Labor & Employment Law Program, has received Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
Professor Martin Wells has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
Professor Chris Collins Honored as Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources
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
Cornell Chronicle
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
Cornell Chronicle
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.
