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Alum’s company creates tech for pain-free tattoos

A company founded by a Cornell doctoral alum is using microneedle technology to create a pain-free tattoo experience.

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Cornell PhD students create inventory drone and weeding robot

The August Startup Cornell podcast features doctoral students Doris Xu and Katrina Davis, two founders who were part of a summer Prototyping Hardware Accelerator at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, a business incubator and startup workspace in downtown Ithaca.

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Reducing interview anxiety for autistic applicants

To reduce the challenges of job searching, autistic applicants should rehearse socially appropriate responses and practice answering interview questions about teamwork with examples from previous experiences.

Bob McKersie, former ILR dean, dies at 96

Bob McKersie, distinguished scholar, educator, author, mentor and one of the most influential voices in industrial and labor relations, died July 11 at his home in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Knowing a manager’s stance on unions can affect worker performance

New research out of the SC Johnson College finds that publicly disclosing management's opposition to collective bargaining led workers who prefer individual bargaining to increase their effort and earn higher wages.

Historic gift to ILR will endow engaged-learning initiative

Edwin “Ed” Baum ’81 and his wife, Holly Wallace, have made the largest one-time gift commitment in the history of the ILR School to support High Road New York City.

Common diet tips about water intake and spicy foods could be dead wrong

A pair of studies from a Cornell nutrition scientist upend two pieces of received wisdom: that drinking more water at meals curbs eating, and that spicy snacks are a diet danger zone.

The diet that could remake modern agriculture

New study asserts that systematic change in food production and consumption requires real political capital and will.

How a Cornell startup scaled to $1.3 billion in battery tech

The startup was founded by Cornell alumni and a professor, inspired by a class in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and nurtured through Cornell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.