04/06/2022 - The Seventh Circuit Bar Association was founded in 1951. But it had never had a woman president before me, in 2001. If you go up to the ceremonial courtroom in the Dirksen Center, there’s a wall of...
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04/05/2022 - Regional economies are routinely subject to the whims of the business cycle that can lead to job losses and lower incomes for residents when a recession hits or an industry declines. But new research...
04/05/2022 - A typical day for Matthew Doppelt (BA, ’11, economics) is hard to come by as assistant director for international scouting for the Los Angeles Dodgers. His home base is in Pheonix, Ariz., where he...
12/07/2021 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign senior Boming Yang, of Beijing, was named a Schwarzman Scholar, one of 151 recipients selected from an...
10/22/2021 - The President’s Commission on White House Fellows announced the appointment of the 2021-2022 class of White House Fellows, the most diverse class in the history of the program. The prestigious White...
09/23/2021 - This fall, 86 new students entered the MSPE Program. This class is represented by 10 different countries (3 Brazil, 70 China, 1 Egypt, 1 Honduras, 2 India, 1 Indonesia, 2 Saudi Arabia, 1 South Korea...
09/15/2021 - The UIUC Federal Statistical Research Center, operated by the Department of Economics out of David Kinley Hall, provides restricted-use microdata from various government agencies to...
07/16/2021 - With a graduate degree in economics, Carla Tighe Murray knows how hard school can be. With a family, she also knows how challenging caregiving can be. That’s why she’s giving support to graduate...
06/01/2021 - Congratulations to our award recipients. Paul W. Boltz Fellowship This award is given to advanced students who have demonstrated research output of high quality. This year's...
05/05/2021 - Bruce Dalgaard's connection to U of I is rooted in his discovery of a lifelong pursuit There’s quite a bit of history behind Bruce Dalgaard’s interest in, well, history. In high school he...
04/27/2021 - A Bright Béninois Future Tyler Funk A nation like Benin has finite resources that it can allocate for investment. Should policy makers focus on accumulation of tangible assets...
04/26/2021 - Arthur J. "Jim" Heins, award-winning teacher and scholar, gifted actor, and noted local raconteur, passed away April 14th, 2021 at the age of 89. He was preceded in death by his loving wife of 59...
04/01/2021 - The Department of Economics is proud to announce many of our instructors were named to the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for Fall 2020/Winter 2021! ...
01/15/2021 - President-elect Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) would have a seat on his Cabinet. Historically...
01/15/2021 - The Research Highlight series provides an overview of current economics research, focusing on why it is interesting and relevant to our everyday lives. The top ten highlights of 2020 cover everything...
