A team of Johnson School students is competing in the Idea Village Entrepreneur Challenge this week in New Orleans, working on short-term, high-impact service roles in the city's revitalization. (March 23, 2010)
At an ILR School conference in New York City Dec. 8, experts gathered to examine how to increase hiring of people with criminal records. (Jan. 3, 2012)
The Proskauer Rose Employment and Labor Law Assistant Professorship has been established for an ILR assistant professor who engages in scholarly work in conflict resolution and collective bargaining. (Nov. 3, 2010)
Curtis Flowers, a Mississippi death row inmate, had been tried six times for four murders he says he did not commit. In June 2019, a Cornell Law School team convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that he had been the victim of racial bias.
As New York Gov. David Paterson outlined his vision June 8 to make New York state a global leader in the knowledge-based economy, he cited President David Skorton's task force as the type of initiative that will create jobs. (June 10, 2009)
After three-and-a-half years at Cornell, James Walsh announced he will leave his position as chief investment officer. So far in fiscal year 2010, Cornell's endowment performance is up 10 percent. (Feb. 17, 2010)
An ILR School Professor John Bunge lent his expertise to a survey of workers in the solar industry, which is projected to jump 26 percent - adding almost 24,000 net new jobs. (Oct. 13, 2010)
American Express Chairman and CEO Kenneth I. Chenault and USA Today senior reporter David Lieberman will be on campus April 3 for a forum hosted by Cornell's Johnson School and the School of Hotel Administration. (March 25, 2008)
Rutgers University Professor Dorothy Sue Cobble delivered the 2010 Alice Hanson Cook Distinguished Lecture on the hidden history of working women. (Oct. 1, 2010)