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National Institute Sponsors Professor Chatterji's Project
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development has decided to sponsor Professor Pinka Chatterji's research project “Effects of Medicaid expansions on infant health among Native Americans” joint with Professor Kate Strully from Sociology and Professor Larry Schell from Anthropology over the course of May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2023. The project aims to...
Professor Chen Wins EPA Data Challenge
Professor Cuicui Chen's work with Professor Jose Miguel Abito at the University of Pennsylvania won the 3rd EmPOWER Air Data Challenge held by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Professor Chen's project will use CAMD’s Power Sector Emissions Data as well as allowance data from CAMD to evaluate how the availability of market information affects the efficiency of environmental markets using the Acid Rain Program as a case study.
Whose Welfare? An Economist Assesses the Cost to Society of Corporate Collusion
Cuicui Chen of Economics and three colleagues assess how corporate collusion in environmental standard avoidance can aid companies’ welfare while damaging society's.
Jack August McEachern Receives the Situation Prize for Research
Jack August McEachern has been selected as a recipient of the Situation Prize for Research - Community, Cause and Advocacy with an award of $500. Following is a summary of his award winning research project:
"Under the supervision of Jennifer Dodge, Associate Professor at Rockefeller College, I have been exploring how to integrate theories of justice into material action.
My theory work focuses on the Green New Deal and the limitations it has as a policy framework. The Green New Deal claims to deliver environmental justice through social-democratic policy. However, with the rise of racial protests in the US, I began to doubt this sweeping claim.
Professor Chen nominated for the Torch Award
Professor Cuicui Chen has been nominated for the 2021 Torch Faculty/Student Engagement Award. The nomination is made by graduating seniors to recognize a faculty member who has had a positive and significant impact on their academic and personal success. A nominating student wrote:
"...She dedicates her time to not only upload every lecture and study materials on time, but she also shows her true passion in teaching environmental economics in her lecture videos. She also engages with her students while she's not preparing lectures, by creating scheduled Zoom meetings to make sure we are on the right track for our group projects and a separate Zoom meeting after class for general questions about what we learned in our lecture. She made it feel like there were no real barriers when it comes to teaching and assisting students. I had a really wonderful experience taking her class..."
Professor Chen receives NSF grant
Professor Cuicui Chen has won a research grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate technology adoption in the automobile industry. The project focuses on automakers that have been alleged to have colluded on adopting Diesel Exhaust Fluid tanks that were too small to effectively clean up nitrogen oxide, a major contributor to air pollution. The goal of the project is to quantify the effects of the alleged collusion on nitrogen oxide pollution damages, car buyer surplus and firm profits.
Two Economics Faculty Members Get Promoted
The Economics Department is pleased to announce the promotion of two faculty members. Pinka Chatterji has been promoted to a full professor and Ulrich Hounyo has been promoted to an associate professor.
First ‘Wonder Grant’ from the Shawn Mendes Foundation goes to a UAlbany senior
A 19-year-old UAlbany senior is the first recipient of a “Wonder Grant” from a foundation established by recording star Shawn Mendes.