May 2022
The following students won the Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards in Economics of this year: Emily Sayler, Jonathan Meister, and Dongjoo Lee.
Our Quantitative Economics program is featured on the UML website. This new program, which grants bachelor's degrees in science, will officially begin this fall.
Our student Wonder Ahiatsi is featured on the UML website.
April 2022
Professor Tommaso Tempesti received the Open Educational Resources (OER) Champions Award. This award was established by UML to recognize faculty who take the lead in using, promoting, or creating OER materials.
Professor David Turcotte commented in boston.com on a new study reporting 43% of renters think their home contributes negatively to their overall health. Read his comment. He was also interviewed by the real estate website Point2 on the declining share of homeowners without high school education in the US. Read his interview.
Our major Emily Sayler is a winner of the 2022 UML Student Research Symposium.
Our Economics Society held a fun-filled and pizza-fueled evening. They played an economics themed game of Jeopardy.
March 2022
Students in Professor Monica Galizzi's health economics class met with Princeton Professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton (2015 Nobel Prize laureate in economics) after they gave a public lecture.
February 2022
Professor David Turcotte co-edited a special issue for the journal "Housing and Society" on housing and health, and co-authored the introduction chapter for the special issue. Read the journal issue.
Professor Monica Galizzi was a keynote speaker at the II Biannual Workshop on "Technological Change, Health, Inequality and Data for Policy Evaluation" organized by the University of Turin, Italy. Her talk was titled: "Incentives and Outcomes for Injured Workers in the 21st Century: Lesson learned, Unanswered Questions, and Directions for Future Research".
January 2022
Professor John Korsak was interviewed by Moneygeek.com on the economics of travel credit cards. Read Professor Korsak's analysis at the interview.
December 2021
Professor David Kingsley, as part of an interdisciplinary team of UMass Lowell (UML) faculty, received a five-year, $2,998,922 National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship award to create the Sustainable Water Innovations in Materials – Mentoring, Education and Research (SWIMMER) program at UML.
October 2021
Professor David Turcotte is selected to serve as a delegate to the United Nations Climate Change 2021 (COP26) Conference in Glasgow. COP26 is the most important UN Climate Change Conference since 2015. Delegates will discuss the global negotiations and commitments that reduce carbon emissions. Professor Turcotte and other delegates will hold an on-campus discussion of the COP26 Conference 2021. Professor Turcotte is also a member of the Climate Change Initiative (CCI) at UML who coordinates the delegation's visit. (Update: after the conference, Professor Turcotte shares his report on Richard Howe's website; there is also a UML news article: Good COP, Bad COP: UML Delegates Reflect on U.N. Climate Summit).
July 2021
Professor Brendan Epstein released his paper with Miles S. Kimball, "The Decline of Drudgery and the Paradox of Hard Work," as a NBER working paper.
May 2021
Virtual graduation celebration 2021. This is the second virtual graduation celebration held by our department during the pandemic. The following students won Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards in Economics: Marharyta Butsko, Riley Coviello, Jacklyn DaSilva, Clara Defourt, Rachel Jordan, and Sabrina Maldonado.
Two economics majors, Emily Sayler and Douglas Correa-Ospina, are chosen by the UML 2021-22 Emerging Scholars Research Partnerships Program as Emerging Scholars.
Our 2020 graduate Pratibha Gautam and Professor Ben Li published their paper "HIV infections and nightlight luminosity" in Economics Letters.
February 2021
Professor Anne Rhoads presented a seminar on "Insights from Behavioral Economics for Making and Sticking to a Budget" to the group Women Accelerators.
November 2020
Professor Carol McDonough was reelected as MSP President.
October 2020
Professor Monica Galizzi gave a talk on "The Gendered Workforce" at the Southern New Hampshire Meeting of the American Association of University Women.
October 2020
Our team competed virtually in the Fed challenge organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
May 29, 2020
UMass Lowell's Virtual Commencement Ceremony.
- The following economics students graduated magna cum laude: Olivia Cheung, Daniel Hogan, Pratibha Gautam, Maddi Hertz, and Hunter Williamson.
- The following economics students graduated cum laude: Kevin Dela Cruz, Eno Adoghe, Frank D'Amico, Christian Colombo, Chris Donald, Victoria Riley, and Tom Connors.
Congratulations to ALL our graduates!
May 18, 2020
Our first virtual graduation celebration in history. Dean Luis Falcon, Associate Dean Richard Serna, Associate Dean Sue Kim, and Assistant Dean Wael Kamal joined us to celebrate this moment during the pandemic. The following students won Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards in Economics: Zach Caraviello, Olivia Cheung, Chris Donald, Maddi Hertz, Dan Hogan, Derek Osik, Jamie Piskorowski, Hunter Williamson, and Adam Zakkouri.
May 14, 2020
Professor Monica Galizzi answered questions at Congresswoman Lori Trahan's Tele-town Hall. She and Pardis Sabeti (Harvard) were invited as co-panelists.
Last week of April, 2020
Our Honors students defended their theses, including Olivia Cheung on "The Impact of Publicly Funded Disaster Aid on Income and Racial Equality in the United States," and Pratibha Gautam on "Nightlight Luminosity and HIV Statistics."
April 10, 2020
Professor Monica Galizzi ran three online workshops on Salary negotiation as part of the UMass Lowell Career Networking Night.
March 2, 2020
Our major Riley Coviello received the 2020 Charles Phillips Outstanding Student Leader Award of the International Omicron Delta Epsilon Society.