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On June 29, after approximately five years of waiting and of fading hopes, long-time ILR School professor Ron Ehrenberg received a kidney transplant.Wonderful news, yes – but that’s only half the story.The kidney came not from a stranger but from his friend and colleague at the ILR School, associate professor Adam Seth Litwin, who spent more...
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Economist Michèle Belot and the ILR School’s Ithaca Co-Lab recommend workforce strategies to reduce racial disparities, remove barriers to work and prioritize living-wage jobs.
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Basu plans to use the Humboldt Research Award for economics to work on moral philosophy and game theory, and on law and economics.
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Colleen L. Barry, a professor and department chair at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, has been named the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy’s first dean, effective Sept. 15.
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The major gift from the Brooks family, whose Cornell roots span three generations, provides an early boost to help the university’s newest school achieve world-class excellence.
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Members of the Class of 2021 are showing their resilience, graduating with exciting offers and embracing the next part of their journey.
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Another 444,000 Americans filed first-time unemployment claims last week, the lowest level since March 14, 2020. At the opposite end of the unemployment spectrum, 4.2 million Americans are long-term unemployed, meaning they’ve been jobless for 27 weeks or more, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.“When people are...
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Steve Yeh, Uri M. Possen Memorial Award, Summa Cum LaudeFavorite Memory: "Working late-nights on macroeconomic problem sets with Zebang Xu over at Rockefeller Hall."Who most impacted your experience as an Economics major? "Under the tutelage and guidance of Prof. Tommaso Denti, I learned how to think about interesting research questions in...
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"Home may have become a dangerous place for democracy to flourish now," said Nobel prize–winning economist Amartya Sen, this year’s Bartels World Affairs Fellow. His May 5 lecture was hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
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Ben Furnas, alumni of Cornell University '06, who was an Economics/Government major, was appointed director of the New York Mayor's Office of Climate and Sustainability. This office works on reducing New York City's negative impact on climate change, the use of fossil fuels, and furthering environmental justice."While Furnas has lived in some of...
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