Thursday, 5th November, 2015 at 5.30 p.m. in the Annenberg Forum, 111 Carswell Hall. Voting systems have deeply strange and paradoxical properties.  In this stimulating talk, Professor Tabarrok, Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and Professor of economics at George Mason University, will demonstrate some of these paradoxes and suggest how…

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Noble for 2015 to Angus Deaton of Princeton University “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”. Angus Deaton, UK and US citizen.  Born 1945 in Edinburgh, UK. Ph.D. 1974 from University of Cambridge,…

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Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Griffith who has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant as a Co-Principal Investigator, with her colleague Joyce Main from Purdue University, to study the factors that influence the under-representation of women and minorities in engineering.  Drs. Griffith and Main will be examining how students’ peers and role models, both…

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Assistant Professors Christina Dalton and Francis Flanagan have been named to the University’s 2015-16 class of Academic Community Engagement (ACE) Fellows.  The ACE Fellowship program provides support to selected faculty members interested in integrating some form of community engagement into classes. For more information click here

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