Winter Institute

The Division of Social Sciences, the Social Sciences Experimental Laboratory (SSEL), and the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute have sponsored the annual Winter Experimental Social Sciences Institute (WESSI) at NYU Abu Dhabi since 2014.

WESSI provided training for social science graduate students and junior faculty in experimental methods, broadly defined (lab, field, lab-in-the-field, biological, and survey experiments). The Institute also included special sessions on the issues and concerns of conducting experiments in Africa, the Middle East, and the surrounding region. Students at the Institute were given the opportunity to receive personal feedback on their own research, through presentations and from meeting individually with faculty.