Andrew Wolf is an assistant professor at Cornell University’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations, where his research focuses on labor markets in the gig economy. He said the settlement is emblematic of how gig companies have historically shifted all the risks for employment onto drivers.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg provided an intimate look at the most pressing issues in federal infrastructure planning during a conversation on November 2 with students and faculty members from the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.
The College of Veterinary Medicine will welcome an embedded counselor to its halls in early November, piloting a new element as part of campus-wide efforts to enhance mental health support.
A Cornell analysis finds telescopes could better detect potential chemical signatures of life in an Earth-like exoplanet that more closely resembles the age the dinosaurs inhabited than the one we know today.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has created a system in which Wall Street actors and insurance conglomerates have extracted large profits at the expense of Medicare, its patients and taxpayers – according to a new report co-authored by a Cornell professor.
Addressing the shortage of women in STEM fields such as computer science is not enough to close the gender gap: Treating women more like men, especially on pay day, is more important than representation alone, according to Cornell research.
The group of 37 alumni and current students will work with Einhorn Center for Community Engagement staff to increase alumni involvement in community-engaged learning programs, courses and projects, among other goals.
The Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine debuted its inaugural podcast show on Nov 1. Hosted by Michelle Moyal, D.V.M. ’07, assistant clinical professor of primary care surgery, the Cornell Veterinary Podcast takes the breadth and depth of the college’s clinical and scientific expertise to a brand-new medium.
Frank DiSalvo, a chemist-physicist who inspired hundreds of Cornellians from different disciplines to collaborate on environmental and sustainability problems, died on Oct. 27 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was 79.
