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2008 Newsletter

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Tenure/Promotion/Sabbaticals

Jean Kimmel was promoted to Professor of Economics.
Debasri Mukherjee was promoted to Associate Professor of Economics.
Jean Kimmel and Michael Ryan were granted sabbaticals for the Spring 2009 semester. Kimmel will continue her research on household time allocation using the German Time Use Survey. She will spend part of her sabbatical time in Bonn, Germany at IZA, an internationally recognized institute for labor market research.Ryan will spend his
sabbatical as a visiting professor in the Department of Economics at Christian-Albrechts University (CAU) in Kiel,
Germany, where he will undertake research on how a foreign affiliate’s geographic location affects foreign direct investment. CAU—Kiel’s economics department, is ranked in the top 10 economics departments in Germany and has
a research and teaching focus on international economics.

Ph. D. program places both graduating students

Both of our graduating Ph.D. students were placed in job. Check here for all of the info.

2008 Alumni Achievement Award Winner

Happy Siphambe received his M.A. in Economics from Western Michigan University in 1989. He was the recipient of the Elias Harik Award for the best graduate student in Economics at WMU. He later received his PhD in1997 from University of Manitoba, Canada, in economics with specialization in Development and Labor Economics. Dr. Siphambe is currently associate professor in the Department of Economics of University of Botswana, where he served as the Head of Department from 2001 to 2007. He has numerous publications including an edited book on Economic Development of Botswana (2005), and his publications have appeared in refereed journals such as Southern African Journal of Economics (2007), Indian Journal of Social and Economic Policy (2004), Botswana Journal of Economics (2003), Journal of African Economies (2001) and Economics of Education Review (2000). He is a member of the Board of Directors of Bank of Botswana, and his work has also nvolved numerous technical consultancy reports and monographs for organizations such as UNCTAD, Barclays Bank Botswana Economic Review, Government of Botswana, the International Labor Organization (ILO), the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Most recently, Dr. Siphambe received a Fulbright Research Grant to study the Impact of HIV/AIDs on Labor Markets in Botswana, where he will spend his grant period at WMU as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics during 2008-2009 Academic Year.

For more information on previous Alumni Achievement Award Winners, click here.

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