In a panel discussion in New York City Dec. 10, social scientists from the ILR School applied their expertise to three gender discrimination cases in hiring, occupational segregation and pay inequity. (Dec. 13, 2010)
Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, spoke about food and research on campus March 7.
The ILR School, Weill Cornell Medical College and several domestic and international organizations will confer on health care reform in New York City May 11-12. (April 5, 2010)
A China expert from the ILR School says that organized protests in the west will not affect labor abuses, but unionization might offer a path to improvement.
Cornell professor Eswar Prasad has co-authored 'Emerging Markets, Global Financial Crisis, Global Economics' (Brookings Press, 2010), which analyzes the success of emerging market economies. (Dec. 6, 2010)
An academic symposium, “Universities and the Search for Truth,” held Aug. 24 in Bailey Hall, was part of the celebrations of Martha E. Pollack’s inauguration as Cornell’s 14th president.
Michael Jones-Correa, professor of government, argues against falling into the “illegality trap” of focusing on undocumented U.S. residents deflects attention from larger immigration policy issues.
Cornell President David Skorton joined 165 university presidents and chancellors to call on leaders in Washington to close what they call the “innovation deficit.”
Faculty members Lance Compa and Rebecca Givan, an editor of the new book 'The Diffusion of Social Movements: Actors, Mechanisms, and Political Effects,' will have a discussion Oct. 27 in the Cornell Store. (Oct. 26, 2010)