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Economist honored for top tax dissertation

Tatiana Homonoff, assistant professor of policy analysis and management, won the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation award for her dissertation scholarship.

Men's 'overwork' widens gender gap in wages

If men keep "overworking," the gender gap in wages will never shrink, Cornell and Indiana sociologists worry.

Faculty agree on viability of electric cars at screening

After screening the documentary “Revenge of the Electric Car," faculty members discussed the merits of the cars with the film's director Dec. 4.

ILR senior is Cornell’s first Mitchell scholar

Simon Boehme ’14 is the first Cornellian to win a George J. Mitchell Scholarship to study in Ireland.

Student knits Filipino women into skilled workers

Doctoral student Meredith Ramirez Talusan, M.A. ’11, who studies comparative literature, serendipitously taught a Filipino woman how to knit. A year later she started a social enterprise that now employs 25 knitters in the Philippines.

NY teacher pay is all about location, location, location

A new ILR School report finds wide variation in pay for public school teachers in New York state.

School 'nutrition report cards' spur healthy choices

Step away from that ice cream sandwich: Point-of-sale technology may help students eating in school cafeterias refrain from devouring junky frozen treats, flavored drinks and potato chips when their parents receive “nutrition report cards.”

'Scary dancers' chase birds from fruit

Those large, inflatable plastic characters that loom over used car lots have a new purpose: scaring away birds that cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to U.S. orchards and vineyards.

Secret-keeping is exhausting, psych study reveals

Stress from having to keep a secret - one’s sexual orientation, for example - can cause lapses in physical stamina, intellectual acuity, executive function and even email etiquette, according to a study by Cornell and Berkeley psychologists.