Engaged Cornell graduate grants fund 10 Ph.D. students

Engaged Cornell has awarded its first Engaged Graduate Student Grants to 10 doctoral students, who are working with community and commercial partners on research projects for their dissertations.

Audio of Konvitz' American Ideals lectures now online

Audio from 44 "American Ideals" lectures by legendary Cornell Professo Milton Konvitz, which many Cornellians say shaped their lives, is now available online through DigitalCommons@ILR.

Performance rankings affect worker effort: researchers

Victoria Prowse, ILR School assistant professor, and colleagues find workers at the far ends of the performance scale curve try harder and workers in the middle put in less effort.

Economy drives the 2016 presidential election, alum says

Seth Harris ’83, a former acting secretary of labor under President Barack Obama and Distinguished Scholar at Cornell's ILR School, said the American economy will determine who voters choose March 22.

Events celebrate ILR School's impact on Buffalo

The 70th anniversary of the ILR School in Buffalo, New York, will be celebrated in the Queen City March 31 and April 1 with a series of events and speakers.

Union Days speaker: ‘there are no jobs on a dead planet’

Jeffrey Vogt of the International Trade Union Confederation spoke on campus March 17 about the domestic and international status of the trade union movement at the ILR School's Union Days.

ILR School research finds persistent gender pay gap

ILR School professors Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn finds an eight percent wage gap that cannot be accounted for, even after controlling for variables that influence workers' pay.

Online Learning offers 'any study, any time, anywhere'

After a year of work, the Cornell Online Learning Community has helped to advance e-learning offerings from Cornell.

In staving off climate change, social landscape adjusts

At the intersection of activism and academia, a climate change and clean energy panel Feb. 26 gave details of environmental urgency and impending social refinements.