Congratulations
Gisella Kagy has been awarded a 2013 Hewlett-IIE Fellowship. The objective of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation/IIE Dissertation Fellowship is to produce sound evidence on the role of population and reproductive health in economic development that could be incorporated into national and international economic planning and decision making. The fellowship is intended to be a broker for interdisciplinary research that crosses the health-economics divide. Over one-hundred graduate students applied. Only seven awards were given. Gisella won this award for her dissertation entitled, "Income Shocks, Health, Family Planning and Investments in Children in the Context of Bangladesh." |
CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop
The14th Annual CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop was October 5–6, 2012 at The Charter in Beaver Creek, Colorado and was hosted by Nicholas Flores, CU Department of Economics. The workshop provided researchers the opportunity to share their research results and/or ideas in a relaxed, workshop environment. Ample time was allocated for discussion, allowing researchers to get feedback from other workshop participants. Work presented ranged from proposed research to highly polished and completed projects. Graduate students were especially encouraged to participate.
Fall 2012 Midwest
Macroeconomics Meetings
The Fall 2012 Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings was held November 9–11, 2012 at the Millennium Hotel Harvest House in Boulder, Colorado. They were hosted by the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Keith Maskus: Named College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction, 2012.
The honorific title College Professor of Distinction is reserved for scholars and artists of national and international distinction who are also recognized by their College peers as teachers and colleagues of exceptional talent.
Two new University of Colorado at Boulder professors have been named College Professor of Distinction in 2012 by the College of Arts and Sciences in recognition of their exceptional service, teaching and research or creative work.
The professors will hold the title during the remainder of their careers in CU-Boulder's College of Arts and Sciences.
Yongmin Chen: One of Two New Managing Editors at IJIO
From the Elsevier Journal website: The IJIO and Elsevier are very pleased to announce that Yongmin Chen and Pierre Dubois will be the new managing editors of the IJIO beginning on January 1, 2013, replacing Bernard Caillaud and Neil Gandal. Both Pierre and Yongmin are outstanding scholars, and the journal will be in excellent hands with Justine, Pierre, and Yongmin at the helm. Read the entire announcement here.
Spring 2012 Department Ceremony
The spring department commencement ceremony was Thursday, May 10, 2012, 5:30–7:00 p.m. in the Glen Miller Ballroom in the University Memorial Center with commencement speaker Piya Sorcar. See the slideshow for more pictures.
Faculty in Focus
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Nicholas Flores was invited to serve as a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board. He serves on the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee and his term runs from Oct. 15, 2009 through Sept. 30, 2012. As a member he will work as a special government employee and be asked to provide independent expert advice on technical issues underlying EPA policies and decision-making.
Koch Fellowship Program
in Public Policy
The Koch Fellowship Program in Public Policy, funded by the Koch Charitable Foundation, gave students from a variety of disciplines the opportunity to conduct research on public policy issues. A major goal of the Fellowship Program is to help prepare students for their post graduation careers. Funding was also available to support participation in conferences and seminars, and publish their research work. The fellowship Program was directed by Professor Barry W. Poulson and assisted by Professor Robert McNown. The Koch Fellows for this past academic year were as follows: Katherine Krauland, Nate Neligh, Steven Mark Seguin, Lydia Van Vleet, and Susanna Wang.
Featured and Profiled Alumni
Alumna Kathleen Cooper (PhD '80) Elected Chair of NBER Board of Directors
From The NBER Reporter 2011 Number 4: Kathleen B. Cooper was elected Chair of the NBER's Board of Directors at its September 19 meeting. She succeeds John S. Clarkeson, the former Chairman of the Boston Consulting Group. Cooper, the previous Vice-Chair of the NBER Board, is a senior fellow of the Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University. She served as Undersecretary for Economic Affairs of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2001-5, and was previously Chief Economist at Exxon Mobil. Cooper was first elected to the NBER's Board of Directors in 1987.
TeachAIDS founder Piya Sorcar recognized as top innovator
Piya Sorcar (Bus, Econ, Jour '01) has received a major award for her work on TeachAIDS, a nonprofit startup she founded out of Stanford, which has created new technology to address numerous persistent problems with HIV education around the world. Read more at the CU-Boulder Alumni Association.