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 …
An intrepid group of faculty, staff and students from the Department made their way to nearby Hubbard Park in August to see our alum Matthew Theobald (PhD 2024). He took time off from his job as an analyst for the Wisconsin Department …
Over the last several years the Department has been giving out hats to those who contribute time or money. We figure we’ve probably given away close to fifty hats with more to come. We’d love to see a photo of …
Prof. John Heywood led the annual exchange to Justus Liebig University in Giessen Germany. He and host Prof. Juergen Meckl each taught classes to UWM and Giessen students. Research seminars were given and good times were enjoyed by all over …
For the third year the Department held an end-of-year gathering bringing together current and graduating students, faculty, alumni and friends. Ann Pencak led the proceedings and Kristen Carioti (PhD 2011) served as guest speaker describing her journey from UWM economics …
Professor Rebecca Neumann and PhD student Ethan Ballou spent part of April in Bratislava Slovakia. Under an Erasmus grant they participated in the life of the Slovak University of Technology. They each taught a class to students there: Ethan taught on …
Four UWM economics students worked with three Departmental faculty to share their research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium this April. We were delighted with this heightened participation and enjoyed presentations on AI and outsourcing, Oil price spreads and airline mergers. …