Rachel Hettich, originally from Roscoe, S.D., will participate in an exchange program with the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom for spring semester 2012. She is a junior Economics major. Rachel is looking forward to studying economics in a different country to reveal new aspects of the concepts she has learned at MSUM. Her exchange experience is partially funded by donations […]
Oscar Flores, Economics, has been named the president of the Missouri Valley Economics Association. The MVEA was established in 1963 and boasts members from all 50 states and many countries. As president, he will be in charge of organizing the 49th annual meetings to be held next October in Memphis, Tenn. Over 200 papers are expected to be presented.
Dean Gorsline is pleased to announce the appointment of Oscar Flores as the Director of the Honors program. He will serve in this role for one year, after which a campus-wide search will be conducted. Flores will bring many new ideas to the honors program and will work on implementing the recommendations of the Task Force on Graduation and Retention […]
Linda Fuselier, Biosciences and Women’s Studies, Claudia Murphy, Women’s Studies, Linda Winkler and Steven Lindaas, both Physics, and Steven Bolduc, Economics, received a Chancellor’s Office Faculty Development Grant. This multidisciplinary team will form a curriculum development group and design materials for contextualized STEM pedagogy in Bioscience and Physics courses.
Oscar Flores, Economics, had a co-authored paper published in the March issue of The Empirical Economic Letters. Flores and Sandra Hanson McPherson, the main author, found evidence suggesting that unemployment due to the mismatch of skills that potential workers have and employers want increased in Canada during the early 1990s.