As part of our long-standing exchange agreement with JLU – Giessen, we welcomed Prof. Mirjam Stockburger this fall. She taught a 3 credit econometrics course over the month of September, attended our fall welcome, attended seminars and gave one of her own. …
Ole Ulpts won the Perlman Paper Prize. The prize is given to the best submitted paper in labor economics here at UWM. This year Ole’s paper, “In a Hurry to Graduate: The Effects of Compressed Schooling on Degree Completion,“ took …
Each year the Department awards a prize to the best continuing undergraduate. This is a student who excels in the classroom and contributes to their fellow students. The 2025 winner is Mia Crowell. Congratulations!
Marlo Vasquez wins the 2025 Holahan Prize for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student. A dissertation student working with Professor Lazkano, Marlo has excelled in teaching both principles and economic development classes. This is the fourteenth annual awarding of the …
Youssuf Abdelatif wins the J. Walter Elliott Prize for 2025. This prize memorializes Prof. Elliott and was first awarded in 1992. It rewards an outstanding performance on the Macroeconomics preliminary exam. As Chair Kundan Kishor said, “we don’t give this …