Community advocates and professionals received training at the ILR School July 29 in recognizing and fighting human trafficking in western New York, and related issues affecting immigrants and undocumented workers.
The award honors Sam Beck, director of the Urban Semester Program, for his work with community partners to improve the lives of low- and middle-income families in Brooklyn.
The ILR School's Kheel Center - the foremost repository of information on the Triangle Waist Factory fire of 1911 - commemorates the disaster's centennial. (Feb. 16, 2011)
William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will visit Oct. 25 to meet with students and local business leaders, and give a public lecture on the outlook for the economy. (Oct. 14, 2010)
Cornell classics professor Eric Rebillard has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support his research on funerary behaviors among the common people of the Roman Empire. (Jan. 18, 2010)
John W. Bluford III, former president of Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, share lessons in the hospital's efforts to transform health though close community engagement.
A Cornell study links low-income children's higher weight in part because they have less access to open green space where they can play and get exercise.
A study by ILR's Global Labor Institute finds that a proposed oil pipeline running from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico might kill more jobs than it generates. (Sept. 30, 2011)
As the Faculty of Computing and Information Science celebrates its 20th year, Frank Rosenblatt’s prescient research into artificial intelligence underscores Cornell’s pivotal role in computing history.