Joanne Restivo Jensen wins ILR's Alpern Award

The ILR School honored two of its most prominent alumni at the Groat and Alpern Awards April 20 in New York City.

Opioid abuse drops when doctors check patients' drug history

There's a simple way to reduce the opioid epidemic gripping the country: Make doctors check their patients’ previous prescriptions. The new research is by Colleen Carey, associate professor of policy analysis and management.

More than 200 soggy students champion science in D.C. march

More than 200 Cornell undergraduate and graduate students joined 40,000 scientists and boosters to champion knowledge in the first March for Science in Washington, D.C., April 22.

Symposium to cover advances in wearable tech, sustainability

On Saturday, April 22, the Cornell Institute for Fashion and Fiber Innovation will host its 2017 symposium, a conversation on the most recent advances and developments in wearable technology.

Conference to focus on work of trauma scholar Cathy Caruth

The Theory Reading Group is hosting a conference at Cornell, "Listening to Trauma," April 27-28, on Cathy Caruth's influential book, "Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History."

More prime-time ads could kick drunken driving to the curb

Public service announcements about the dangers of drunken driving could save thousands of lives each year – but only if those ad campaigns are better funded and more people see them, according to three Cornell researchers.

What makes a vegetarian? It's not what's on the plate

The new theory proposes that vegetarianism is an identity, not just a series of decisions about what to eat. A Cornell undergraduate and his academic adviser came up with the new way to think about vegetarianism.

Downloads of labor contracts surge after they go online

The recently completed online resource "Cornerstones in American Middle Class: Historical Collective Bargaining Agreements Project" at the ILR School's Kheel Center is seeing heavy traffic from scholars.

Team measures effects of sentence structure in the brain

An international team of researchers, including a Cornell cognitive scientist, reports physiological evidence showing how the brain combines words into phrases in real time during reading.