The nonprofit Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, co-founded in 2012 by Ajay Chaudhary '03, integrates teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences into the lives of working adults.
A prominent union leader's daughter has bequeathed a $100,000 endowment to the ILR School's Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives.
Couples who share housework report a notable benefit beyond sparkling dishes and clean floors: more action in the bedroom. That's according to recent research by Sharon Sassler, professor of policy analysis and management.
Through the Cornell in Turin summer program, students examined such hot-button issues as Brexit and the migrant crisis in the class Population Controversies in Europe and the U.S.
An endowment bequeathed by Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, professor of physical anthropology at Cornell for 41 years, will fund a lecture series and visiting professorship in human evolutionary biology.
Samuel B. Bacharach, author of "The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea is Not Enough," says leaders need political and managerial competence to move their agendas, drive their ideas and get results.
Social scientists have known for several years that kids enrolled in run-down schools miss more classes and have lower test scores. But they haven’t been able to pin down why. A Cornell environmental psychologist has an answer.
Very few successful people would have succeeded if they hadn't been lucky, too, economist Robert H. Frank says in his book, "Success and Luck." He calls on policymakers to create the conditions that put luck on everyone's side.
