Faculty awarded entrepreneurship funding

Thirteen faculty members are recipients of 2024 Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships, receiving funds of $1,500 to $3,000 to help develop or expand courses and add teaching assistants.

The program, administered by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, was established in 1993 by David W. Zalaznick '76, a Cornell trustee, and his wife, Barbara '76, to honor David's father, Louis. The awards allow faculty affiliated with Entrepreneurship at Cornell to extend their capacity to work with students by providing assistants to help with their courses and/or course development.

Zalaznick award winners and their projects:

• Brian Bauer, professor in the R.F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will use the funding to support a teaching assistant for the I-Corps training course;
• Jorge Colon, associate professor at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, will use the funding to support a teaching assistant for his class, Agile Innovation;
• Tom Estad, lecturer in the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, will use the funds for a teaching assistant for his Communication for Entrepreneurs class;
• Jason Greenberg, associate professor at the SC Johnson College of Business will use the funding to support his Dilemmas in Entrepreneurship class;
• Matt Marx, faculty director of Entrepreneurship at Cornell, will use the funding to support two entrepreneurship classes focused on dilemmas in founding new ventures, one for MBA students and one for undergraduates;
• Neil Mattson, professor of plant science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will use the funds to pay for a teaching assistant for a class on hydroponic food production
• Greg Ray, lecturer at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, will use the funds to support his green tech and life science entrepreneurship classes;
• Ken Rother, managing director of eLab, the student business accelerator, will use the funds to help students travel to pitch events;
• Wes Sine, professor of management and organizations at the SC Johnson College of Business, will use the funds to support an academic speaker series;
• Ami Stuart, lecturer at the SC Johnson College of Business, will use the funds to support a teaching assistant for an entrepreneurship hackathon course;
• Daniel Van Der Vliet, director of the Smith Family Business Institute at the SC Johnson School of Business, will use the funding for a teaching assistant for his course, Leaders in Family Enterprise;
• Anke Wessels, visiting lecturer at the SC Johnson School of Business, will use the funds to support a teaching assistant for the Practicum in Social Entrepreneurship;
• Chuck Whitehead, professor of business law at Cornell Law School, will hire a teaching assistant to work on a securities regulation casebook; and
• Rana Zadeh, associate professor of human-centered design in the College of Human Ecology, will use the funds to support teaching assistants for two classes on designing the workplace.