Wesley Sine Awarded Faculty Fellowship from Institute of Social Sciences
February 6, 2008 | Ithaca, NY | The Johnson School at Cornell University is proud to announce that Wesley Sine, assistant professor of management and organizations, has been awarded one of 12 fellowships for fall 2008 from Cornell's Institute of Social Sciences. Designed to nurture the careers of Cornell University's most promising assistant and associate faculty members in the social sciences, the program promotes an environment of intellectual exchange and an appreciation for interdisciplinary scholarship. During the in-residence semester ISS Fellows are given time away from teaching and most departmental responsibilities in order to focus on their research. All fellows are awarded a research grant of $10,000.
Wesley Sine will join fellows from across the university including faculty from fields such as Communications, Computer Science, Government, Hotel Administration, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Sociology. During the semester-long fellowship, he will work on two related projects that focus on how the social environment affects entrepreneurial processes and outcomes. First, he will examine how political violence shapes entrepreneurial activity by continuing his research on Colombian entrepreneurs. He will also investigate how local ideology affects entrepreneurial processes and outcomes by studying wind and solar power entrepreneurs in the U.S. from 1978-2007 and determining how the presence and activities of environmental groups affect the likelihood that entrepreneurs will launch ventures in the energy sector using renewable technology.
The Institute for the Social Sciences is a critical component of Cornell's social science initiative. It was established in 2004 with the support of the President and Provost. The goals of the Institute are to encourage collaborations among social scientists across disciplinary and institutional boundaries, to engage the Cornell community-students, faculty, and staff-in discussions of cutting-edge topics in the social sciences, and to assist departments and programs in attracting and retaining top social science faculty.
