Richard Thaler, professor of economics at Cornell for nearly two decades, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Oct. 9 for work he began at Cornell.
Cornell Cooperative Extension vegetable specialist Maire Ullrich worked with nonprofit Feeding America to put together a shipment of fruits and vegetables to be trucked to parts of Florida or Texas hit hard by recent hurricanes.
Major League Baseball Commissioner and ILR School alum Robert D. Manfred Jr. '80 grew up exposed to unions and bargaining, skills he uses in his current position.
Eleven high school students spent three weeks on campus creating new businesses with entrepreneurial Cornell student mentors this summer as part of the “Life Changing Summer” program.
Cornell undergraduate and graduate students took part in a financial technology hackathon organized by Entrepreneurship at Cornell Nov. 11 at Cornell Tech in New York City.
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.
The Cornell Center for Social Sciences has awarded spring grants supporting research and conferences involving more than 30 faculty and researchers across campus, including collaborations within new and expanded superdepartments.
The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR has developed a mobile phone application to prevent wage theft and violations of worker rights in cooperation with laborers, organizers, developers and lawyers.