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• Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Faculty Promotions

  March 30, 2020

  

  The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Dean's Office announces that five associate professors have been promoted to professors; one associate professor has received tenure; and six assistant professors have been promoted to associate and received tenure.

• Congrats to Rick Tuley and Abby Burke

  March 28, 2020

  
  Congratulations to Rick Tuley and Abby Burke from the entire School of Economics family! Our amazing past and current students continue to reach for the highest stars!

• Economics Student Sarah Tinsley Named 2020 Joseph K. Heyman Scholarship Recipient

  March 21, 2020

  

  Sarah Tinsley, a fourth-year student in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Economics, was awarded the 2020 Joseph K. Heyman Scholarship from the Atlanta Economics Club.

• Fall 2020 New Courses!

  March 19, 2020

  

  With the addition of four new faculty, the School of Economics is offering a number of new undergraduate courses for Fall 2020.

• Econ Students Excel at IAC Grad Paper Conference

  February 27, 2020

  

  The School of Economics had a strong presence at this year’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts CRIDC Graduate Student Paper Conference held at Georgia Tech on January 31, 2020.

• Faculty Development Mentor Program Aims to Foster Interdisciplinary Connections

  February 26, 2020

  

  The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech has continued to grow in size and influence, and a new faculty development program designed to encourage mentorship and collaboration across disciplines could create even more exciting scholarship.

   

• Strategic Plan Draft Available for Review, Application Period Open for Phase Two Working Groups

  February 20, 2020

  

  Thousands of people focused on the future of Georgia Tech by helping us complete phase one — visioning and drafting — of Georgia Tech’s strategic planning process. Now, the process moves into the goal-setting phase that will include an opportunity for review and input from the Georgia Tech community.

• Besedes Publishes Research on Multilateral Environmental Agreements

  January 29, 2020

  

  The International Tax and Public Finance journal has accepted for publication a new paper by Tibor Besedes, an associate professor in the School of Economics, which examines the economic determinants of multilateral environmental agreements. The paper was co-authored with Erik P. Johnson, a former faculty member in SOE, and Xinping Tian, a Ph.D. alumnus of SOE.  

• Georgia Tech Economics Doctoral Student Co-Authors Paper on Solar Geoengineering in ‘Nature Communications’

  January 13, 2020

  

  Solar geoengineering—the intentional reflection of sunlight away from the Earth’s surface—may reduce income inequality among countries, according to a new paper co-authored by a Georgia Institute of Technology School of Economics Ph.D. student who conducted his research while a visiting student at the University of California San Diego.

• Shatakshee Dhongde has been appointed as a Fellow with the Society for Economic Measurement.

  January 10, 2020

  

  Associate Professor, Shatakshee Dhongde, has been appointed as a Fellow with the Society for Economic Measurement.