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Planning chair and scholar Susan Christopherson dies

Professor and chair of city and regional planning Susan Christopherson, known for her scholarly work and expertise on regional economic development, died Dec. 14, 2016, following a battle with cancer. She was 69.

Einaudi announces new round of seed and small grants

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded four seed grants and four small grants to Cornell faculty members to support their international research.

Showing distress at work? To recover, reframe it as passion

Sunita Sah, assistant professor of management and organizations, has a strategy to save your professional reputation if you've displayed frustration, disappointment or feeling defeated at work: Reframe your distress as passion.

CIPA capstone projects foster change near and far

Students and faculty packed the Dec. 5 Cornell Institute for Public Affairs capstone reception, at which master's degree students present final policy projects.

When wage earners are deported, Latinos lose their homes

New research by demographer Matthew Hall shows an increase in deportations under President-elect Donald Trump would mean devastating losses to legal Latino homeowners – and the communities they live in.

ILR alums, student named Schwarzman scholars

Two Cornell ILR School alumni and a current ILR student are among 129 people named Schwarzman scholars, the scholarship program announced Dec. 1 in Beijing and New York City.

Teacher, mentor, trustee Daniel Sisler dies at 87

Daniel G. Sisler, Ph.D. ’62, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics and a Cornell trustee emeritus, died Nov. 23 in Ithaca. He was 87.

Students win top prize in NYC financial hackathon

Cornell undergraduate and graduate students took part in a financial technology hackathon organized by Entrepreneurship at Cornell Nov. 11 at Cornell Tech in New York City.

Phone app helps laborers report abuse, fight wage theft

The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR has developed a mobile phone application to prevent wage theft and violations of worker rights in cooperation with laborers, organizers, developers and lawyers.