Professor Richard Clarida - recently confirmed Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve - will be visiting the Illinois campus at Urbana-Champaign on October 12, 2018 to accept an Alumni Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, where he is an alumnus from the Economics Department.
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- Economics Department has two alumni with a connection to Mr. Obama: Mr. Jesse Ruiz (Econ ’88) and Mr. Billy Dec.
- 76 new students entered the MSPE Program. This new class hailed from 11 different countries around the world (2 Brazil, 1 Chile, 46 China, 2 India, 6 Indonesia, 2 Kazakhstan, 2 Paraguay, 5 South Korea, 4 Thailand, 1 Turkey, and 5 U.S.).
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