Kheel Center to preserve workplace agreements

A federal grant will enable the ILR School's Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation and Archives to digitize a century of collective bargaining contracts.

Super rich benefit from ‘status quo bias’

Senate filibuster rules "get in the way of policy change that could reduce inequality of all kinds, including income inequality," says Cornell's Peter K. Enns. "Significant changes in policy won’t come without institutional reform.”

‘Connectivity’ to be hallmark of Cornell Tech campus design

A Dec. 19 panel discussion in New York City outlined the vision for Cornell Tech’s permanent home, slated for groundbreaking in early 2014.

Two years in making, Cornell Tech land deal is official

Two years to the day after Cornell won Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Applied Sciences NYC competition, President David Skorton signed the lease for the city land on which Cornell NYC Tech will be built.

Great Dane: Colleagues fete Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Colleagues held a celebration and symposium to mark Per Pinstrup-Andersen’s retirement Dec. 13-14 following 40 years of combating world poverty and malnutrition.

Cornell Tech students show off their innovations

Cornell NYC Tech hosted an "open studio" Dec. 13 to showcase projects from its first graduating class and from new students in the program.

NY injects Southern Tier with $81.9M in economic aid

To spur job creation and a business-friendly climate throughout the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced New York’s statewide Regional Economic Development Council awards Dec. 11. The Southern Tier, noted as a top-performing region, received $81.9 million.

Jewelry, socks ease diabetes and arthritis pain

Four students in the Textiles, Apparel and Innovation course have designed products and apparel that ease pain but don't attract attention.

Agribusiness panel to Congress: Get us workers

A disturbingly different American landscape is on the horizon if immigration reform in Congress can’t provide enough legal workers, agribusiness panelists predicted Dec. 10 at Cornell.