2024-11-04
- Inspired by his experience as an international athlete, LAS senior Mitchell Leshchiner created ElectroKare, a start-up company that tracks electrolyte levels through smartwatches.
ElectroKare is one of several startups coming out of the iVenture Accelerator program. The program started in 2015...
2024-10-07 - John Kelly (BS, ’86, economics) spends his office hours as an economist with the US Department of Labor in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, it’s his work with his non-profit that feeds his soul. Kelly founded A Meal to Heal following the death of his mother when his family found comfort sharing a meal at their family’s favorite...
2024-10-01 - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Robert Resek, former student and professor in the Department of Economics. For more information on Dr. Resek's impressive career and life please read his obituary, https://www.renner-wikoffchapel.com/obituary/Robert-Resek. Dr. Resek will be greatly missed by...
2024-07-17 - Chase Hinkle is a CS + Economics major and the first and only researcher from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign selected for Cornell University’s pilot program, BURE Next....
2024-07-10 - Many students, said George Deltas, professor and head of the Department of Economics, see his field as a way to prepare for a future in public policy. He describes, however, how economics combines elements of business, engineering, and statistics to be practical and relevant in both the public and private sectors. What are you currently...
2024-03-29 - The Economics Department is proud to announce Sefan Dercon as the Spring 2024 David Kinley Lecturer. Dr. Dercon will present "Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose". The lecture will take place on Wednesday, April 3rd from 4:00-5:00 pm in 120 Architecture Building, with a reception to follow. Stefan Dercon is a Professor of...- 2023-09-12 - This fall, we had 76 students begin their study in the MSPE Program. This class is represented by 11 different countries: Brazil, China, Indonesia, Korea, Liberia, Nigeria, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey, and the USA. These students joined the 61 continuing students in the MSPE Program.
2023-06-12 - In the last few days, Professor Borgschulte's paper "Air Pollution and the Labor Market: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke" has been covered by CNBC, CBS, NYTimes, and the Associated Press. This paper was co-authored with David Molitor (Gies College of Business, UIUC) and Eric Zou (Department of Economics,University of Oregon).
2023-04-12 - The Economics Department is proud to announce Matthew Gentzkow as the Spring 2023 David Kinley Lecturer. Dr. Gentzkow will present "Social Media and Polarization". The lecture will take place on Thursday, April 20th from 3:00-4:45 pm in 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall. Matthew Gentzkow is the Landau Professor of Technology and the Economy at Stanford University. ...
2023-02-01 - The workshop "Causal Inference: Current Trends and the Future of Research" will be held on the 4th-5th of May 2023, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. The workshop is being organized by Marcelo C. Medeiros, ...
2023-01-25 - The workshop "HDMetrics: Big Data, High-Dimensional Methods, and Machine Learning" will be held on the 21st-22nd of April 2023, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. The workshop is being organized by Marcelo C. Medeiros, ...
2022-10-20 - Assistant Professor, Eliza Forsythe of the School of Labor & Employment Relations and Department of Economics will appear before the House of Lords of the United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 25th. Eliza will provide a testimony to the House of Lords regarding the labor market in the United States and how it compares to the labor market of the United Kingdom....- 2022-09-07 - This fall, we had 76 students begin their study in the MSPE Program. This class is represented by 12 different countries: Belarus, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand, and the USA. These students joined the 68 continuing students in the MSPE Program.
- 2021-09-23 - This fall, 86 new students entered the MSPE Program. This class is represented by 10 different countries (3 Brazil, 70 China, 1 Egypt, 1 Honduras, 2 India, 1 Indonesia, 2 Saudi Arabia, 1 South Korea, 1 Thailand, and 4 USA). These students joined the 45 continuing students in the MSPE Program.
- 2020-10-13 - 51 new students entered the MSPE Program this fall. This new class hailed from 7 different countries around the world (41 China, 1 Egypt 2 Guatemala, 1 Indonesia, 1 Saudi Arabia, 1 South Korea, and 4 U.S.). These students joined the 73 continuing students in the program.