Mellon Foundation grant advances CHERI research

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $640,000 research grant to the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute.

Debate team shares skills with incarcerated youths

Cornell Forensics Society members regularly meet with incarcerated youths in two Ithaca-area prisons to share debate and critical-thinking skills and help them talk through issues.

Cornell Asian Alumni Association honors Lisa Yang '75

More than 230 administrators, alumni and friends celebrated Lisa Yang, ILR ’74, at the Cornell Asian Alumni Association’s 22nd annual banquet Feb. 2 at Manhattan’s Golden Unicorn Restaurant.

Cornellians help stage Obama inauguration

When Barack Obama is inaugurated U.S. president Jan. 21, the celebration will be Big Red, white and blue. Cornellians are helping prepare a whirlwind of inauguration celebrations and parades.

Big Red tackle JC Tretter trains for Senior Bowl

Big Red tackle JC Tretter '13 is enduring grueling 12-hour days of training as he prepares to play in the Senior Bowl All-Star Game in Mobile, Ala., Jan. 26.

Hemami, Niklas and Lipsky honored as Weiss fellows

Professors Sheila Hemami, Karl Niklas and David Lipsky have been named Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows for outstanding teaching and mentoring of Cornell undergraduates.

NYC health care conference inspires teamwork, better patient care

The ILR School's Healthcare Transformation Project hosted a two-day conference Dec. 11-12 that offered people in the field workshops on improving health care quality. (Dec. 19, 2012)

More than 900 students will get their degrees this winter

Nick Lawrie '13 will graduate in January with the ability to follow his passion for 'helping the little guy,' thanks to his ILR School education and Cornell financial aid. (Dec. 17, 2012)

Cornell labor archive seeks Yiddish speakers for project

Archives at the ILR School and the University of Warwick, U.K., seek input from Yiddish speakers as translators of documents to keep the language, and labor history, alive. (Nov. 29, 2012)