June 2008 Archives

By Andi McDaniel

Mark Ostrem

By Andi McDaniel

Janis Pallister

By Danny LaChance

By Andi McDaniel

Obioma Nnaemeka Brings Her Mother's Dream to Life

By Rachel Levitt

Looking for something to read or watch relating to France, French-speaking countries, or Italy? Note well this cultural cornucopia, recommended by department faculty and staff.

Looking for something to read or watch relating to France, French-speaking countries, or Italy? Note well this cultural cornucopia, recommended by department faculty and staff.

By Andi McDaniel

Christophe Wall-Romana and the new study of “cinepoetry”

By Sheila M. Eldred

The emergence of Francophone studies

By Danny LaChance

For Juliette Cherbuliez, absolute power isn’t so absolute

A Q&A With Ron Akehurst

By Andi McDaniel

A summer conference explored the meaning of terrorism

By Linda Shapiro

By Kermit Pattison

By Kermit Pattison

By Kermit Pattison

By Kermit Pattison

With the aid of technological advances and expanding resources, language study at the University is advancing by leaps and megabytes. Continue Reading…

By Leslie Morris

By Scott Vignos
Professors of German, Chinese, and art meet at a coffee shop to discuss South African cinema of the early 1900s.

To become one of the forefathers of modern career counsleling, John Holland first had to become a revolutionary.

David Lykken set the standards for students and for his prefession

Lowell Hellervik uses his psychology degree to build a global company and give back to the Unversity

Grad student Sara Kvidera goes where few have gone before

Siri Scott follows parents’ path into new territory

Bassim Birkland mixes theory and practice

Paul Sackett seeks fair and effective performance predictors

Jo-Ida Hansen applies vocational psychology to our free time

Jim Butcher's journey has taken him from poverty to personality, painting, and PowerPoint

Mark Snyder, McKnight residential Chair in Psychology, directs the center for the study of the individual and society.

Minnesota psychologist grapple with the challenges of post-traumatic stress

Tim Brady, Kermit Pattison, and Danny Lachance contributed to this story. Angus MacDonald explores the mystery of schizophrenia

Joyce Bono and colleagues explain what makes for effective leadership

By Gordon E. Legge

By Lisa Thiegs

Rebecca Blank's undergraduate degree in economics from the U of M launched a career dedicated to social change

By Lisa Thiegs

From Minneapolis to Mexico, father and son Don and Kurt Winkelmann have used their U of M economics education to gain global perspective

By Elizabeth Hillberg

Amy Bratkovich marries her passion for jewelry design with her background in economics

By Elizabeth Hillberg

Working in collaboration has paid off for graduate students Ananth Ramanarayanan and Costas Arkolakis, whose ongoing research has already received accolades.

By Douglas Clement

Tom Holmes unearths the hidden gems in his economic research

By Douglas Clement

Leonid Hurwicz knows how to achieve desired objectives in economics and in life

By Douglas Clement

Since its inception, the University's Economics Department has been home to experts and ideas that have garnered international recognition.

By Narayana Kocherlakota

By Douglas Clement

Professor Timothy Kehoe weighs in on economic theory and practice.

By Chrisitne Cumming

Littermans talk about the science and serendipity of succeeding, living well, and giving back.

By Elizabeth Hilberg

Levin Learns Life Lessons from his U of M Economics Major.

By Douglas Clement

Alice Schoonbroodt has "everything but regret" after entering the U's graduate program.

Ed Prescott, now at Arizona State but a professor in Minnesota's Department of Economics from 1980 to 2003, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in economics together with Finn E. Kydland, Ed's student at Carnegie Mellon in the 1970s. The prize was awarded "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."

By Douglas Clement

Looser fiscal limits in Europe could create a severe trial for its central bank, according to V.V. Chari and Pat Kehoe.

By Douglas Clement

The Minneapolis Fed and the
University of Minnesota: A partnership
This is precisely how government, business, and education ought to work together.

By Ed Foster

The American Sociological Association’s Context magazine has a new home at the University of Minnesota

By Vicky Brockman

A tribute to genocide scholar and alumnus Eric Markusen

By Helen West

Deanna Freer Peterson (’64, sociology) takes her dreams from rural Minnesota to Washington, D.C. — by way of the University of Minnesota and Harlem

By Time Brady

Undergrad Molly Watters tastes the pleasures of life as a student leader at the U.
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By Tim Brady

Jeremy Staff’s research ex amines tee n work, school, and finding balance

By Tim Brady

Professor Joel Samaha’s award-winning scholarship and teaching have made him a guiding force in the future of criminal justice

By Tim Brady

A new study by assistant professor Ann Meier has made waves with its fresh look at adolescent sexuality

By Tim Brady

A new, large-scale project in the Department of Sociology looks at how young adults fare once they leave an institutional setting

Celebrating Civic Engagement

Litterman fellowship gives Ariel Zetylin-Jones a solid foothold for research and teaching

By Mary Shafer

Doug Gorence turns conventional wisdom upside down

By Thomas Lee

Undergraduate Elizabeth Dobis works and chills out at the crossroads of math, economic theory, and human behavior

By Kate Tyler

Working at the intersection of economic and cultural practice in sub-Saharan Africa, Michele Tertilt discovers that investing in multiple wives is bad for economies

By Thomas Lee

What exactly is the public good? Art Rolnick has spent a career using economics to answer that question Continue reading…

By Edward Foster

When our decisions are irrational, neuroeconomist Al do Rustichini can help us understand why

By Douglas Clement

After teaching at the nation's most elite schools , Professor Pat Bajari has come back home

By Narayana Kocherlakota

It' been an exciting and busy year for our department

As she finds her way back from a stroke, Gail Becker is relearning how to talk.
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Private gifts support cutting-edge research and enable the department to recruit the very best students, both graduate and undergraduate. Just as today’s research benefits future generations, today’s students will be tomorrow’s scholars and practitioners.
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Charles (Chuck) Speaks was mowing the lawn at this Houston home on Thanksgiving weekend in 1967 when he made a decision that would shape his future. “I want to teach," he thought. “I won’t know if I don’t try."
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For Rachel King and Native American Youths, higher education is the surest route to the future.
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Ph.D candidate Pui-Fong Kan studies the relationship between language acquisition and culture.
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With your financial support, we have been able to make a tangible difference for students: to help them pay tuition, buy books, attend professional conferences, take part in teaching workshops, and carry out research projects— all things that we could not do without you.
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