Faculty Outreach
Lee Alston
Through the Foundation for
Teaching Economics, Professor
Alston gives regular
weeklong seminars to high
school teachers on economic
history to inform instruction
in U.S. high schools.
Through the Coase Institute,
Professor Alston also lectures
to students and young assistant
professors from developing
countries, providing
them with tools to analyze
important policy issues in
their home countries.
Tania Barham
In her previous role as a
World Bank consultant,
Professor Barham advised the
government of Yemen in the
design of a project to
improve the health and education
of poor children. She
is presently studying vaccination
rates in Nicaragua for
the World Bank’s human
development department.
California’s Department of
Health Services used Professor
Barham’s work on
managed care and birth outcomes
in their policy review
of managed care.
Ann Carlos
Through the Foundation for
Teaching Economics, Professor
Carlos gives regular
weeklong seminars to high
school teachers on economic
forces in American history.
Over the past 10 years, these
seminars have provided high
school teachers with information
about cutting edge
research in economics that
they can pass on to their students.
Seminars have been
held in New Orleans, New
York, Chicago, Hawaii, San
Antonio, and San Francisco.
Yongmin Chen
Professor Chen was invited to
present his work to the
antitrust division of the U.S.
Department of Justice. He
has also been invited by the
Swedish government to speak
about oligopoly price discrimination
at the Swedish
Competition Authority.
Nicholas Flores
Professor Flores advises public
agencies on stream
restoration projects through
the National Center for
Earth-Surface Dynamics. He
also serves on the advisory
board for the City of Aspen’s
Climate Change Impact
Assessment. Additionally, Professor
Flores has worked with
the USDA Forest Service’s
Rocky Mountain Research
Statement on public land
management issues.
Phillip Graves
Through the Foundation for
Teaching Economics and the
Foundation for American
Communications, Professor
Graves has lectured on market
economies in numerous
places around the world
(e.g., Prague, Budapest,
Hanoi, and Bratislava) with a
particular interest in influencing
the appreciation of
market economies in Eastern
and Central Europe.
Michael Greenwood
As a widely recognized expert
on migration, Professor
Greenwood was asked to
serve on the U.S. Commission
for Immigration Reform.
During his three years of
service on the commission,
he co-directed a study estimating
the economic and
social impacts of Mexican
migration.
Frank Hsiao
Professor Hsiao has lectured
on East Asian Economic
Development in Korea,
Japan, China, Hong Kong,
and Taiwan. He currently
serves as a consultant for the
Chinese University Development
Project II for the World
Bank.
Jim Markusen
Professor Markusen frequently
travels to Europe to present
short courses on modern
international trade policy and
on general equilibrium modeling.
An example of a recent
venue is the Ministry of Trade
and Industry in Copenhagen,
Denmark. Professor Markusen
previously served on the
Royal Commission on the
Economic Union and
Development Prospects for
Canada, which laid the foundations
for the U.S.–Canada
free-trade agreement. He also
served as an advisor to
Mexico’s Ministry of Trade
for the NAFTA negotiations.
Professor Markusen is frequently
invited to speak to
local groups and participate
in local forums on globalization
and trade policy.
Keith Maskus
International organizations
and foreign governments frequently
draw on Professor
Maskus’s expertise on intellectual property rights and
economic development. He
has provided policy advice to
the governments of Egypt,
Indonesia, China, Vietnam,
and Lebanon, among others.
He has recently written
reports for the World Health
Organization, the World
Intellectual Property Organization,
the International
Task Force on Global Public
Goods, and the United
Nations Conference on
Trade and Development.
Terra McKinnish
Due to her expertise on
poverty issues, Professor
McKinnish was asked to serve
on the board of the local
food bank and recently completed
her term. She was the
volunteer coordinator of the
local Hunger in America
Survey, in which a team of
food bank staff and volunteers
conducted interviews
with food pantry and soup
kitchen clients. These interviews
were combined with
those conducted by other
food banks across the country
into a national report on
hunger in America.
Robert McNown
Professor McNown has
served as an expert witness
on the effects of waste site
proximity on residential
property values. He has
served as a visiting professor
at several institutions abroad,
including the University of
Sydney (2003), Peoples’
University in Beijing, China
(1989), and Tribhuvan University
in Kathmandu, Nepal
(1979–1981), this last position
as a Fulbright lecturer.
Edward Morey
Professor Morey serves as an
advisor to NOAA on Natural
Resource Damage Assessments.
He has also helped
assess the damages from the
pollution injuries at a number
of large Superfund sites.
This work has contributed to
cleaning up contaminated
rivers in Montana, the Bay of
Green Bay, and, he hopes in
the future, the Hudson River.
Barry Poulson
Professor Poulson serves on
the Colorado Commission on
Taxation and was recently
appointed to a state commission
to evaluate the state’s
retirement plan. He has been
extremely active in economics
education in the state of
Colorado. He consults with
the Colorado Council on
Economic Education and is
Director of the Center for
Economic Education in
Boulder. He has taught seminars
on economic education
to Colorado’s public school
teachers for more than 30
years and has partnered with
State Treasurer Mike
Coffman to discuss state-related
economic issues with
Colorado teachers.
Scott Savage
Professor Savage was curriculum
development advisor to
NetTel@Africa— a consortium
of southern African
countries developing knowledge
in information and
telecommunications policy
and regulation. He recently
traveled to Botswana and
Tanzania to advise academics,
engineers, and policy makers
on recent developments in
regulatory policy and education.
Donald M.Waldman
Working with the EPA and
the U.S. Weather Service,
Professor Waldman uses his
expertise in statistical modeling
to measure the value of
environmental quality and
better weather forecasts. He
has volunteered his time
doing survey research for the
Boulder chapter of the Association
for Community
Living, an organization dedicated
to providing services
that promote dignified community
living for people with
developmental disabilities.
Randall Walsh
Professor Walsh has been
invited by the Lincoln Institute
for Land Policy in
Boston to discuss open space
policy with town planners. He
has also advised local planners
in North Carolina.
Jeffrey Zax
Professor Zax has been
tapped by the Colorado
Department of
Transportation to analyze
crash and citation statistics
for the state, for the purpose
of advising the state on its
traffic safety programs.
Professor Zax has previously
advised Colorado’s Departments
of Human Services
and Labor and the Attorney
General’s Office. He is a regular
contributor to state discussions
on economics issues,
writing three op-ed pieces for
the Denver Post in the past two
years.
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