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Francine Blau, the ILR School’s Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and a Cornell professor of economics, is the 2023 Alice Cook/Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture speaker.
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For six years, Klarman Fellow Chaira Galli helped youths from Central America navigate the United States’ labyrinthine asylum process while doing an ethnographic study.
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Despite persistent gaps in workforce participation, when it comes to wanting to work, the gender gap has all but disappeared over the last 45 years, according to Cornell sociologist Landon Schnabel.
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Mar’Quon Frederick, a government major, will spend the summers of 2022 and 2023 in the Institute for Responsible Citizenship's Washington Program.
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On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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Prof. Jerel Ezell comments on the EPA's announcement of new air and water monitoring and enforcement.
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A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
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The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
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Prof. Vida Maralani comments on the declining birthrate in the U.S.
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