News
2017
Brian Kisida has been named the co-recipient of a competitive $90,000 grant from the National Endowment for Arts to study the impacts of arts enrichment on students’ academic and social outcomes.
Assistant research professor Brian Kisida co-authored a report published on Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings' website.
Four students and one faculty member were inducted into MU's chapter of international economics honor society Omicron Delta Epsilon at the Economics Department Leaders Board spring meeting.
Doctoral candidate Li Tan has been awarded an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship through MU's Population, Education and Health Center for the upcoming academic year.
Greg J. Duncan, distinguished professor of education at the University of California, Irvine's School of Education, will give three lectures at MU this week as part of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Visitors Program.
The College of Arts and Science Student Council honored economics faculty members Myoung Lee and Jeff Milyo with Purple Chalk Awards for the spring 2017 semester.
Assistant research professor Brian Kisida co-authored an article published this month in Kappan, the professional magazine of Phi Delta Kappa International that serves K-12 educators and policymakers.
"Dr. Podgursky’s willingness to listen and collaborate with students about how to improve this course demonstrates that even as a tenured professor with many years of experience, he is humbly open to adapting his pedagogical approach to accommodate students’ ever-changing needs," said Nicholas Pretnar, a former teaching assistant.
Kaplan was recognized for his paper “Fractional order statistic approximation for nonparametric conditional quantile inference,” in the Journal of Econometrics.
The event takes place Friday, March 24 at the Millennium Student Center at the University of Missouri St. Louis.