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News and events

• Professor Kevin Corder is on sabbatical spring 2013.  Professor Corder was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to travel to Malta where he will study the financial sector reforms instituted in Malta and the European Union in the wake of the global recession and debt crisis. Corder recently published a book on the debt crisis in the U.S., The Fed and the Credit Crisis (Lynne Rienner Publishers).
  
  
• Placement news
  
  Latasha Chaffin(ABD) has accepted a tenure-track position at the College of Charleston beginning in fall 2013.
  
  Todd Curry (Ph.D. 2012) has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Texas-El Paso beginning in fall 2013.

Matt Arsenault was awarded a Presidential Management Fellowship for the 2012-13 year. He will be working with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the Large-Bank Supervision Department. He is the fourth WMU graduate student to receive this prestigious fellowship in the past seven years. He has completed all requirements for his Ph.D. in political science and will graduate in December.

Robert Harbaugh (M.A. 2002) has accepted a full-time position in the Department of Political Science at the College of Western Idaho.