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• Three Econ Faculty Awarded IAC Small Grants for Research

  May 12, 2022

  
  SGR awards are open to proposals in any area of research, and cross-School collaborative proposals are encouraged. 

• Urmanbetova Wins Class of 1934 Outstanding Innovative Use of Education Technology Award

  May 9, 2022

  
  The Institute-wide award recognizes School of Economics Academic Professional Aselia Urmanbetova's efforts to use technology to create more interesting, engaging, diverse, and inclusive learning opportunities in the classroom. 

• Oh, The Places You'll Go! Ivan Allen College Celebrates Class of 2022 Graduates

  May 2, 2022

  
  Read more about some of our class of 2022 graduates as they prepare for commencement.

• Dhongde wins Dean George C. Griffin Faculty of the Year Award

  April 27, 2022

  
  Georgia Tech's Student Government Association presented the award to Dhongde on April 11 at the Up With the White & Gold ceremony organized by the Center for Student Engagement.

• Regents Approve New Georgia Tech Master’s in Global Development

  April 25, 2022

  
  The one-year collaborative degree will combine courses in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, the School of City and Regional Planning, and the School of Economics.

• Three Econ Students Joining Ph.D. Programs

  April 18, 2022

  
  Samantha Cameron, Cade Lawson, and Turner Stevens have accepted offers at University of California-Davis, Georgia State University, and the University of Virginia.

• First IAC Lightning Talk Series Features Ph.D., Faculty Research in Environmental Sustainability

  April 15, 2022

  
  Faculty members and Ph.D. students presented their research on topics such as solar rebound, greenwashing, and the effects of air pollution on birth outcomes and education.

• Buser Earns Promotion to Senior Academic Professional

  April 13, 2022

  
  Congratulations to Academic Professional and Associate Director of Academic Programs Whitney Buser, who will be promoted to senior academic professional this summer! 

• First Large-Scale Study of Covid-Era Birth Data Finds Significant Drop in Premature Cesarean, Induced Deliveries

  April 6, 2022

  
  Published April 6 in the journal Pediatrics, the study by School of Economics Assistant Professor Daniel Dench is the first to examine pandemic-era birth data at scale.

• Meet our 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner, Chaunté Lowe!

  April 5, 2022

  
  This four-time Olympian is also a breast cancer survivor who uses her platform as a professional athlete to advocate for women's health.

• Post-Doctoral Fellow Jie Chen Accepts Tenure-track Position at James Madison University

  March 18, 2022

  
  At JMU, Chen will teach health economics and statistics courses and continue her research in health economics using applied econometrics methods.

• The Role of Sanctions in Curtailing Russia

  February 24, 2022

  
  While sanctions can make it harder to do business with a country, they do not always achieve the desired result in terms of changing behaviors, says School of Economics Professor Tibor Besedes.

• Four Ivan Allen College Teams Awarded Seed Grants for Advancing Multidisciplinary Team Research

  February 17, 2022

  
  The grants, awarded by the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, are meant to foster the growth of cross-disciplinary teams needed to tackle some of society’s greatest challenge

• New Research Paints a More Detailed Picture of Poverty and Race in America

  January 27, 2022

  
  The study by Shatakshee Dhongde, associate professor in Georgia Tech's School of Economics, and Xiaoyu Dong, a fifth-year Ph.D. student, is the most robust analysis yet of multidimensional poverty in the U.S.

• Georgia Tech’s Energy, Policy, and Innovation Center Awards $400K in Seed Funding through Energy and Public Health Solicitation

  January 26, 2022

  

  Georgia Tech’s Energy, Policy, and Innovation Center (EPICenter), put out a seed funding call to solicit multidisciplinary research projects entitled, “Energy and Public Health: Building the Foundation.” With help from IBB and SEI, four teams were chosen and awarded a total of $400,000.

• Landlord-pay Rental Units Cost US Economy $836 Million Per Year in Wasted Energy

  January 21, 2022

  
  Assistant Professor Dylan Brewer’s analysis found that renters in units where landlords pay heating expenses spend an extra $590 million a year on heating costs and create $246 million in pollution-related expenses.

• GT School of Economics 2021 Year in Review

  December 20, 2021

  
  Get caught up with the top stories, events, celebrations, and more from the School of Economics in 2021!

• Congrats, Graduates! Meet the Fall Class of 2021!

  December 13, 2021

  
  Please join us in congratulating the School of Economics fall class of 2021!

• Liu Attends Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics

  December 10, 2021

  
  Third-year Ph.D. student Jancy Ling Liu was selected for the two-week online program, where she got the opportunity to learn from and connect with some of the best economists in the country.

• Belton: Inflation Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better

  November 18, 2021

  

  Holiday shopping amind continued pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic will add up to higher prices through December, Willie Belton predicts,

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