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Alumni News
Seelig Gift Supports Economics Research at Clark
Steven Seelig (BA '66; PhD '71) recently contributed $25,000 to support
research by faculty and graduate students in the Economics Department. In
his own words: "I have come to realize that I owe a debt of gratitude to
the economics faculty at Clark that piqued my interest in economics, exposed me
to the pleasures of research through the honors program, and while getting my
Ph.D. taught me to think "outside the box" and to use economics to look at
public policy issues."
Based on this gift, the University's Board of Trustees has approved the
establishment of the Steven Seelig Economics Research Fund. The income
from this fund will be used for purchasing software or hardware, data
acquisition, travel and conference fees, publication fees, and other direct
research expenses. The faculty is grateful for this expression of support
from an alumnus of the program, and hope to use these funds to help offer the
kind of education that will continue to inspire such loyalty in future students.
Efforts are anticipated to encourage additional support from other
Economics alumni.
Alumni Event in Boston
After touring the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, members of the Economics
Society visited Public Consulting Group for lunch and discussion with alumni
about economics, careers and life after Clark. Public Consulting Group
CEO, Bill Masakowski ('76), led the discussion with input from
Sean Dunbar ('01), Bob Andrezyk ('01) and
Mollie Grotpeter ('04).
Alumni Survey
We've developed an Alumni Survey to get feedback from B.A.s and Ph.D.s about
the economics courses and degree programs at Clark, and how they helped prepare
you for "life after Clark". This is part of the Department's commitment to
developing outcome-oriented measures for the program - as well as another way
for us to keep in touch with you.
The survey can be accessed at
http://survey.clarku.edu/EconSurv/takeSurvey.asp?surveyID+126&invid=x and
click on surveys on the left, then alumni06 survey.
The alumni Survey includes questions about how well Clark courses provided
you with specific skills (analytical tools, oral and written communication,
applying economic theory). The Survey also asks for job contact
information. If you prefer to answer the survey anonymously, that is fine.
We are truly interested in your feedback. Please take a few minutes
sometime and fill out the survey; the results will be summarized in a future
newsletter.
Attiat F. Ott Seminar Room Dedication
On October 21, 2005 the departmental seminar room was dedicated in honor of
Attiat Ott, who retired from teaching in 2005 after 35 years at
Clark. Many of her former students returned for the occasion.
The Attiat F. Ott Fund for Economics funded the renovation of the
department's seminar room and continues to fund student research. Total
pledges of $45,000 have been received from Clark economics alumni.
Dr. Ott's latest initiative is in the Institute for Economic Policy Studies,
which promotes economic literacy in Africa while seeking to develop new
solutions to the economic problems faced there. The Institute hosted a
conference in July 2006, "The African Outreach Program: Democracy,
Liberty, and Development", with participants from Africa and the U.S. including
several of Dr. Ott's former students.
Clark Econ Alumni News Vjacheslav Dombrovsky, Ph.D.
'04, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to do research at the Buchanan Center of
Public Choice at George Mason University. He will be coming to the United
States in August 2007.
Eastern Research Group of Lexington, MA employs three Clark Econ alumni: Lou Nadeau ('98), Aylin Sertkaya ('98), and Rob Carney ('02). Lou is involved in performing statistical program evaluations of federal government agencies such as EPA, OSHA, and FDA. Aylin is assessing the economics of food safety and nutrition issues for the FDA. Rob works on a variety of economics projects for OSHA and FDA. Laurie Hopkins ('97) and Reetika Motwane ('00) have also worked at ERG.
Andrea (Poppiti) McHugh ('99) is Contracts Specialist for ARD, Inc, an international development consulting firm that performs work mostly for USAID, administering government contracts, preparing and monitoring budgets.
Mollie Grotpeter ('04) is Project Manager for Public Partnerships, LLC, doing program and system design and regulatory compliance for new projects. PPL provides Fiscal Intermediary services for public sector clients. Bill Mosakowski ('76), CEO of Public Consulting Group, Inc. (PPL's parent company), is a Clark Alumnus and Trustee.
The Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth includes 3 Clark alumni: Ronald Shadbegian ('91), Robert Jones ('01), and Constantine Alexandrakis ('03). Naa Akofio-Sowah , Maggie Cole-Beebe and Michael McKay are UMass-Dartmouth graduates currently in our PhD program.
Recent Graduates
PhD Degrees 2007
Suchandra Basu
Transboundary Pollution Spill-ins and Local Regulatory Response
(Gray)
John Moore
"Interdistrict Choice in the State of Massachusetts"
(Gray)
PhD Degrees 2006
Anna Belova
Equivocal Enforcement: Regulatory Disputes in OSHA (Gray)
Bhramar Dey
Revealing Agency Preferences: The Case of OSHA (Gray)
Soma Ghosh
Strategic Interaction Among Local Governments: A Spatial Analysis
of Spillover of Public Goods (Ott)
Ladislav Wintr
Three Essays Analyzing Internet Markets (Gray)
Undergraduate Honors 2006
Rebecca Batza
The Effects of Fiscal Policy on the Current Account: Evidence from
a Vector Autoregression Approach (Bokil and Callan)
Rebecca Fox
The Solow Model's Missing Link: Gender Equality (Gray)
David Kramer
The Effect of Smart Growth Policies on Sprawl (Brown)
Uyen Le
Enough Already? Optimal Family Size in America (Gray)
Alex Leibowitz
Microfinance: Is Outreach an Impediment to Financial
Self-Sustainability? (Ickowitz)
Sattha Prasitwarakul
Speculative Currency Attacks (Callan)
Larissa Price
From Export-Led Growth to Import-Substitution Decline: Policy and
Productivity in the Uruguayan Beef Industry (Brown)
Where are they going?
Soma and Suchandra have accepted teaching positions (at
Bridgewater State and Rhode Island College respectively); Anna
is working at ABT Associates; Bhramar is working at the
National Carrier Exchange Association; Ladislav
is working at the National Bank of Belgium as an economist in the research
department; Alex is an analyst in the Real Estate Finance
division at CIBC World Markets in New York; David is an
internal sales associate for Morgan Stanley in New York, Rebecca is staying
at Clark for a 5th year MS program in Finance; Larissa is
working as the Director of Programs and Seminars at the Foundation for Economic
Education, Uyen is working at Cannondale Associates, and
Xiang is starting a Masters program at Washington University in
St. Louis..
Current Student News
Masahiro Shoji will be presenting his paper "Evaluation of
Flexible Repayment System in Microfinance: A Case Study from a Natural
Disaster in Bangladesh" at the Eastern Economic Association meetings on February
24, 2007. Masahiro is from the Graduate School of Economics, University of
Tokyo and is currently a visiting student in the economics department at Clark
while working as a research assistant for Dr. John Brown.
Chyanda Querido will present a paper from her thesis, "A
Game Theoretic Approach of War," at the first world meeting of the Public Choice
Societies in Amsterdam, March 29-April 1, 2007. Chyanda is receiving
travel support from the Society and from the Department's Harry Sheftel Research
Fund.
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Research Fund donor Steven Seelig (BA ’66; PhD ’71) and Gloria Seelig |
Bill Mosakowski (’76), Mollie Grotpeter (’04), Justyna Mietelska ('06), Ian Madorin-McGregor (’09), David Maldonado (’09), Cesar Conto (’06), George Keppler ('08), Bob Andrezyk (’01), Sharon Olander (’08), Sean Dunbar (’01), Rebecca Batza (’06) gather in Boston. |
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick (’85), Nirupama Devaraj (‘05), Gladstone Hutchinson (’89), Michael Compson (’89), Bonnie Orcutt (’93), Kamal Desai (’96), Roy Wyscarver (’77), Attiat Ott, Paul Hughes-Cromwick (’86), Nevila Nace (’05), Muhammad M. Awan (’76), Sheila Vegari (’78), Ute Schumacher (’90), Sujha Subramanian (’97) at Seminar Room Dedication. |
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