2022

Welcome from James Peck

his newsletter provides news and updates on the state of the Department of Economics and its activities. Contained in this edition are highlights of the research and other accomplishments of the…

NIH awards economics researchers $2.3M to study health, economic impacts of COVID-19

NIH awards economics researchers $2.3M to study health, economic impacts of COVID-1 Even now — nearly two years after the pandemic began — the totality of COVID-19’s ever-evolving health and…

Professor Trevon Logan Named Special Assistant to Provost for RAISE Initiative

Trevon D. Logan, the Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor of Economics and associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as special assistant to the provost for the…

Ethan Doetsch receives the 2022 Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer

Ethan Doetsch, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, received the 2022 Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer. The award was announced to a surprised Doetsch by several…

Federal research funding has positive ‘ripple effects’

Federal funding for biomedical research has a “ripple effect” of stimulating new studies even beyond the original purposes of a grant and may provide unexpected benefits, a new study suggests.…

Medical research reduces deaths in areas where it is created

Study finds reductions in mortality for diseases investigated A new study provides a novel way of showing that medical research does indeed save lives, starting in the local communities where it is…

Bruce Weinberg receives 2022 Distinguished Scholar Award

Bruce Weinberg, Eric Bryon Fix-Monda Professor in Economics, received the 2022 Distinguished Scholar Award. The award was announced to a surprised Weinberg by senior leadership from the…

Undergraduate Student Spotlight: Enan Srivastava

Enan is a third-year senior in economics. He chose economics because, coming into college, he wanted to broaden his scope of thinking from the software…

Graduate Student Spotlight: Rohan Shah

Rohan Shah is a sixth-year graduate student in the Department of Economics at the Ohio State University. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of…

Young Alumni Spotlight: Gabriel Englander

My name is Gabriel Englander and I am very fortunate to have studied economics at The Ohio State University. I graduated in 2015 with a B.S. in economics…

Scholarships and Awards 2021-22

Thanks to our generous donors the Department of Economics is able to give out several scholarships and awards each year to deserving undergraduate and graduate students. Here is a list of our 2021-…

Department News and Notes

Meta Brown, associate professor in the Department of Economics and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Population Research was one of 12 featured speakers at this year’s TEDxOhioStateUniversity…