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CSMGEP Profiles: Trevon Logan, An Economist Who Profits From the Past

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One Size Doesn't Fit All: HyFlex Lets Students Choose

Large lecture courses are often required of an institution's newest learners, who lack skills to help them succeed. A team at Ohio State University redesigned an intro-level course to let students…

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ASC Students Win Competition at Clinton Global Initiative University

Nima Dahir and Jackson Frazier (economics and mathematics) and fellow student Abd Al-Rahman Traboulsi (biomedical engineering), won the Resolution Social Venture Challenge (SVC) at the 2016…

No Buckeye Goes Hungry: Students Open Food Pantry

When he was 11 years old, Alec Admonius’ parents took him along as they volunteered with Meals on Wheels in their neighborhood just outside of Detroit. It must have made quite an impression,…

Women book business flights earlier

A recent research by Javier Donna, assistant professor of economics at Ohio State, examines a large dataset with 6.4 million flight bookings in 2014 to analyze gender differences in the demand for…

Psychology/Economics Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award

Ian Krajbich, assistant professor, psychology and economics, has received a five-year NSF CAREER Award of $722,305. Krajbich is developing models to apply and test across different types of human…

The Counterintuitive Downside of Moving Away from Poverty

Richard Steckel, Professor Emeritus, Economics, is co-author of a new study on the historical origins of cardiovascular disease in the American South. In the working paper, “Historical Origins of…

Weinberg Co-Authors Study on Economic Benefit of Funding Doctorates

Bruce Weinberg, associate professor, economics, is a lead author of a new study revealing the economic benefit of providing research funding for science PhD students. The study, published in the…