NEWS FROM FACULTY
Gail Blattenberger - Our own Dr. Gail Blattenberger was selected to receive the XO award for 2009 for volunteering her time and talent for the past 16 years to teach English to adult immigrants at the Guadalupe Schools. The XO Awards were created and sponsored by Kirton & McConkie and Bonneville International/KSL-TV. They present the XO Awards to "everyday people in our community who touch us with their caring & kindness. It is a way to thank those people who often go unrecognized as they serve those around them". The award ceremony is free and open to the public on August 28th 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
NEWS FROM STUDENTS
Madson Thompson and Mark Taylor - Current Economics students selected as Homecoming Royalty
Ed Coffield’s (current Ph.D.) paper on school policy and obesity has been accepted for presentation at a roundtable discussion at the American Public Health Association Meeting in Philadelphia on November 2009. The title of his talk is “Counterweight: A Multilevel, Multi-cohort Analysis of School Policy on Adolescent Obesity in Utah.”
Matt Chang (Ph.D. 2007) is appointed as assistant professor at the Department of Economics of the South Dakota State University. Matt is moving from Cal State Chico to South Dakota State.
Kirsten Ford (current Ph.D.) "Recursive Causation: Threading together Veblen, Chang, and Feminist Economics." Presented July 2009 at the Western Economic Association International 84th Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Andrew Hobbs (B.A. 2009) won the Outstanding Honors Thesis Award ($1,000) in the 2008-2009 academic year. He also received a full scholarship to pursue his M.A. degree in economics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
JaeWhan Kim (Ph.D. 2006) is appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah Department of Family and Preventative Medicine. He previously was a post-doc in pharmaco-economics at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Utah. JaeWhan is also presenting two papers at the American Public Health Association Meeting in Philadelphia on November 2009, both co-authored by Professor Becky Utz (University of Utah, Department of Sociology).
Sanghoon Lee (PhD 2009) is appointed BK21 postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Economics, Yonsei University in South Korea.
Matt Lund (Ph.D. 2009) is appointed as senior economist at the Utah Tax Commission, Economics and Statistics Division.
Brandon Walker (MA 2009) has the distinction of being awarded one of the coveted student oral presentation slots in the Medical Care section of the American Public Health Association Meeting in Philadelphia on November 2009. The title of his talk is “Fading of Protective Roots: Severe Hypertension among Mexican-American Immigrants.” Brandon defended his thesis with Professors Norman Waitzman, Ken Jameson, and Tom Maloney as members of his committee.