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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Bob McKersie, former ILR dean, dies at 96

Bob McKersie, distinguished scholar, educator, author, mentor and one of the most influential voices in industrial and labor relations, died July 11 at his home in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Historic gift to ILR will endow engaged-learning initiative

Edwin “Ed” Baum ’81 and his wife, Holly Wallace, have made the largest one-time gift commitment in the history of the ILR School to support High Road New York City.

Workers with temporary protected status aid NYS’s economy, society

Central Americans with the status make signification contributions to New York’s economy and civic and political organizations, an ILR School report says.

Women negotiate as effectively as men – but leave people happier

Men and women achieve similar economic outcomes in negotiations, but female negotiators foster stronger interpersonal relationships.