ILR Assistant Professor Yiran Zhang has published a pair of papers exploring the garment supply chain in China – both factory jobs and informal, home-based ones that have sprung up out of need as women try to make money while also serving as “companion mothers” to their school-aged children.
The Feb. 27 public lecture will be the third event in the Black History Month series organized and hosted by the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures.
The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy welcomed Marielena Hincapié, John W. Nixon Public Policy fellow at the Brooks School, to Willard Straight Hall on Cornell’s Ithaca campus for the 2024 Nixon Lecture “From Crisis to Renewal: Immigration, Inclusion, and the Next 250 Years.”
Romance studies scholar Romina Wainberg is co-editor of a collection which contains brief texts and illustrations by Latin American LGBTQIA+ writers and artists, accompanied by responses by queer academics in Spanish, Portuguese or English.
When the revamped DisabilityStatistics.org website launches later this month, it will provide data about disability prevalence and demographics on the national, state, local and legislative-district level…
As research director at the ILR School’s Buffalo Co-Lab, Russell “Rusty” Weaver builds tools to help communities, policymakers and individuals make informed decisions about issues such as child care, wage inequality, evictions and broadband access.
Three new research projects will receive funding and training through the Ignite Fellow for New Ventures program to transform university research into new ventures and products that can benefit society.
“Voice gap,” which measures a worker’s perceived gap between desired and actual influence at work, significantly impacts job-related outcomes, such as job satisfaction, according to new research by ILR Assistant Professor Duanyi Yang.
The awardees are “outstanding early career scientists who have demonstrated a commitment to making foundational discoveries while building an inclusive culture in academic science,” said HHMI in a statement.