Five faculty members were recently awarded Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships, administered by Entrepreneurship@Cornell.

The assistantships were established in 1993 by David W. Zalaznick '76, a current Cornell trustee, and his wife, Barbara '76, to honor David's father. The awards allow Entrepreneurship@Cornell-affiliated faculty to extend their capacity to work with students by providing teaching assistants to help with their courses or with course development, or both. Entrepreneurship@Cornell, formerly known as Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise, connects Cornell students to universitywide entrepreneurial resources.

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"Whenever faculty and students can work more closely together, it is to everyone's benefit. We're delighted so many faculty are taking advantage of these teaching assistantships to assist their students," David Zalaznick said.

This year's recipients are:

• David Funk, director, Program in Real Estate, Department of City and Regional Planning, College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Funk will use his $3,000 award for a teaching assistant for his seminar on the real estate industry. The assistant will conduct research in the real estate field and prepare online learning modules.

• Aija Leiponen, assistant professor, Department of Applied Economics and Management (AEM), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). Leiponen will use her $6,760 award to enhance her class, Innovation Strategy. Teaching assistants will help compile a database of local startup company experiences in business model development, allowing students to study company development over several years.

• Pedro Perez, assistant professor, AEM. Perez will use the $7,500 award for teaching assistants for his classes, Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Business and for the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Speaker Series.

• Deborah Streeter, the Bruce F. Failing Sr. Professor of Personal Enterprise and Small Business Management, AEM. Streeter will use a $5,000 award to hire two teaching assistants. One will work in Streeter's Women, Leadership and Entrepreneurship course, helping to build learning units and enhance the use of Streeter's eClips, a video clip library of interviews with entrepreneurs. The other will work with Streeter's spring course, Personal Enterprise and Small Business Management, helping to mentor teams of students as they develop business plans.

• Michael Timmons, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, a joint program of CALS and the College of Engineering. Timmons' $2,640 award will support teaching assistants to aid him in developing a new textbook, "Technology-Driven Entrepreneurship."

For more information about the Zalaznick awards or the Entrepreneurship@Cornell program, call (607) 255-1576 or visit http://epe.cornell.edu.