• Department Friend Retires
    Nelson Hernandez retired in March after two and a half decades working for facilities services here at UWM.  A routine fixture in Bolton Hall and on the 8th floor, Nelson served as a custodian and as a font of knowledge about the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team.  We trust his retirement will be restful and include …
  • Department Helps Bring Economics to Local High School
    Faculty work with teachers at Shorewood High School to provide college credit.
  • The Niho Excellence Fund Supports Research
    The Department benefited greatly from the Niho Research Excellence Fund in 2023-2024.
  • Geoengineering Research by Professor McGinty
    The UWM L&S In Focus reviewed recent research by Professor Matthew McGinty.
  • Team Econ does the Panther Prowl
    A few members of last year's Team Econ do the Panther Prowl 5k in person.
  • Jan Philip Steitz wins the Perlman Award
    Jan Philip Steitz wins the Perlman Award for Best Paper in Labor Economics
  • Ole Ulpts wins the Holahan Teaching Award
    Ole Ulpts wins the William Holahan Award for Outstanding Teaching by a graduate student.
  • Professor Lazkano Leads Giessen Exchange
    Professor Itziar Lazkano led our forty-year-old exchange with Giessen University.
  • Undergraduates Study Milton Friedman
    Four UWM undergrads study the free-market principles advanced by Nobel economics laureate Milton Friedman.
  • New PhD Recipients – Spring 2004
    Congratulations to this term's PhD cohort.
  • Prof. Hamid Mohtadi Retires
    Prof. Hamid Mohtadi retires! Hamid joined the Department in 1983 serving as a stalwart in Economic Development but with an extremely broad teaching and research portfolio. He studied terrorism, food supply systems, weather and agriculture, political lobbying and much more. His work appeared in the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal …
  • Economics Undergraduates Present Their Research
    Two undergraduate majors worked with faculty this year to improve their skills and then presented their research at the UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 26th in the Wisconsin Room of the Student Union. Nathan Smith Nathaniel Smith, “Roster Building Evaluation” Mentor: Prof. Matthew McGinty. This research involved looking at the construction of NBA teams’ rosters. …

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