October 2009

 

• October 19, 2009.  Professors Dr. Terrel Gallaway, Dr. Reed Olsen, and Dr. David M. Mitchell have a forthcoming accepted paper to be published in Ecological Economics.  Their paper is entitled, “The Economics of Global Light Pollution.”

 

September 2009

 

• September 21, 2009. Professors Reed Olsen and Christina Robinson were two of the five panelists in a seminar on Health Care Issues. The seminar was part of MSU’s Faculty and Student Seminar series.

 

• September 15, 2009. The Economics Club had arranged for Dr. Subhayu Bandyopadhya  from the St. Louis Fed to make two presentations. The first was a research paper (co-authored with Tod Sandler) entitled, “Terrorism and Policy: An International Perspective,” which is forthcoming in Economica. Later in the evening Dr. Bandyopadhya presented a lecture on “Missouri and the US Economies.” Both presentations were open events.

 

• September 12-13, 2009. Professor Terrel Gallaway spent the September 12th weekend participating in a climate-change workshop sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists.  The workshop was held in Washington, DC and attendance was by invitation only. It brought together about a dozen economists from across the nation to meet with leading scientists and discuss the latest scientific findings and policy initiatives concerning global warming.  Dr. Gallaway’s invitation was due to the research that he and other faculty members (Reed Olsen and David Mitchell) have been doing on Light Pollution.

 

August 2009

 

• The department extends a warm welcome to its newest assistant professor, Dr. Christina Robinson. Dr. Robinson earned her PhD from North Carolina State University and will be teaching courses in Industrial Organization, Health Economics and Labor Economics.

 

• Congratulations to Professors David Mitchell and Sharmistha Self! As of this academic year, both have been granted tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. While the process may have been occasionally stressful, the rest of us knew that the outcome was never in doubt. We are looking forward to being able to include them on committees for which they were previously ineligible!