{"id":11296,"date":"2026-07-06T12:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/economics\/?p=11296"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:35:59","slug":"prof-chakrabarti-led-the-giessen-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/economics\/prof-chakrabarti-led-the-giessen-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Chakrabarti led the Giessen exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prof Avik Chakrabarti led our student and faculty exchange with Justus Liebig University &#8211; Giessen on this its 40th year.\u00a0 He and Prof.\u00a0J\u00fcrgen\u00a0Meckl\u00a0from JLU taught a mixture of JLU and UWM students over the six week term.\u00a0 Prof. Chakrabarti called the experience &#8220;wonderful&#8221; and we all look forward to the coming fifth decade of this remarkably successful exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" 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