Student & Alumni News

We are happy to announce the launching of a new STEM master's degree: MS in Econometric and Quantitative Economics. A STEM degree provides important additional benefits to both international and domestic students. International students will be granted a longer OPT timeline through the STEM OPT eligible criteria. Graduate students in the new degree will be eligible to receive outside STEM scholarships and aid, such as those from the NSF.

We welcome Senior Vice President Naveen Selvaraj and his team to speak about the role of credit risk management at Citi and the banking industry, and to discuss full-time and internship opportunities with his team. The information session will take place on Tuesday, February 14 at 5:30pm in Norton 214.

The Federal Reserve of New York recently released their listings for the Labor Market comparing median incomes at the start and mid-career for many disciplines, including economics. 

We thank our generous donors for creating these exceptional opportunities for our students. Andrea Niper, who is pursuing a BA in Economics with a minor in Business and World Trade, was awarded the Kogut Brothers Award. Stephanie Vail, who is pursuing a BA in Economics with a minor in Statistics, was awarded the William A. Strauss Scholarship, and Casey Rotherberg, who is pursuing a BA in Economics with a minor in Chinese, was awarded the Matthew Scarpati Endowed Scholarship.

Moon was recently awarded a CAS fellowship to present his paper “Internal structure of consumer cities: core and subcenters” at the 2016 annual conference of the International Transportation Economics Association (ITEA), held this year June 15-17 at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago de Chile, Chile.

UB senior economics major Sean Kaczmarek has been chosen to receive a Marshall Scholarship, one of the most selective graduate fellowships available to American undergraduates and an honor many consider the country’s most prestigious scholarship.