Dean Colvin to give inaugural McKersie Lecture

ILR Dean Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. ’99, will explore how insights from the work of the late Robert “Bob” McKersie, former ILR School dean, relate to the state of labor today when he delivers the inaugural McKersie Labor Day Lecture on Friday, Sep. 4.

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Is there an AI bubble? No, but some tech companies show signs

The AI sector is not in a bubble market, but the prices of some individual AI companies behave with the price variability and exuberance characteristic of a bubble, according to new Cornell research.

Research Matters returns, following ideas from the lab to real life 

The second season of Research Matters, a Cornell video podcast, drops today, with a way-too-relevant episode on why we don't always do the things we know we should.

Two New Faculty Members Join ILR for 2026-27

The ILR School welcomed two new faculty members, Greg Distelhorst and Anaïs Fabre, on July 1. 

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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.

Thirteen early-career professors win NSF development awards

Researchers studying ribosomes, AI and quantum computing are among 13 early-career professors from Cornell who’ve recently been awarded National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.

Abowd, Vilhuber win 2026 PET award

John Abowd, professor emeritus of economics, statistics, and data science at Cornell and Lars Vilhuber, research professor and executive director of  ILR’s Labor Dynamics Institute, have received the 2026 Caspar Bowden PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. 

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Identifying high-needs patients helps predict future health spending

A new way to measure comorbidity can be used to accurately predict a patient’s risk of hospitalization and future healthcare costs across a population.

Community context shapes corporate response to violence in street protests

New research by Forrest Briscoe examined how reported violence in protests was associated with increased local corporate diversity action announcements. 

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