Archived Departmental News
Tuesday, February 11, 2025: Economics Building Art Reception
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
Join us from 5:00-7:00 PM, for a reception to celebrate a new public art installation in the lobby of the Economics Building. The artwork housed in the UNM Humanities Building needed a new home after voters approved a capital bonds project to demoli...read more
Three Econ Alumni Share Career Advice
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
Three out-of-state economics alumni zoomed into the Econ Department earlier this week to share their experiences with undergraduate majors. The remote “Pizza with Professionals” event was co-hosted with the UNM Alumni Association. Belind...read more
Alumnus gives the gift of economic impact analysis
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
Economics Alumnus Charles Lehman (B.A. 1963) has donated $30,000 to UNM for a campus-wide license for IMPLAN, the leading software for assessing economic impact. IMPLAN allows economists, geographers, planners, and other researchers to evaluate the ...read more
Interview with Online Teacher of the Year: Economics Senior Lecturer III Dr. Cristina Reiser
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
Dr. Reiser shares her enthusiasm for students and her excitement about teaching economics using evidence-based approaches in this in-depth interview. ...read more
Can alcohol taxes reduce drinking in New Mexico?
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
Professor Brady Horn provided expert testimony to the New Mexico legislature regarding a proposal to increase alcohol taxes. Read more here....read more
UNM research shows methadone, other substance use disorder treatments in jails reduces recidivism
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
If you provide methadone treatment or other substance use disorder treatments in jails, will it reduce people from going back to jail? Several University of New Mexico researchers say yes. Brady Horn, a professor in the Department of Economics, and ...read more
3rd Annual NM Economics Research Day Examines State Policies and Economic Opportunities
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
Faculty from the University of New Mexico Department of Economics and the Department of Community and Regional Planning presented six different research projects focused on issues impacting New Mexico during the third-annual New Mexico Economic Rese...read more
Congratulations to Jingjing Wang on $6 million NSF award!!
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
NSF announces $16 million investment in UNM-affiliated projects to build climate resilience...read more
Economics Celebrates the Class of 2024!
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
Economics hosted a Convocation for its graduates on a beautiful spring day. Among the honorees were three newly minted PhD's, 14 Master's students, and 37 undergraduates. Efraín Ibarra Dávila, the 2024 Department of Economics Distinguishe...read more
2024 Cristina Reiser Outstanding Online Teacher of the Year
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
Dr. Cristina Reiser received the UNM-wide Online Teacher of the Year Award at a ceremony that celebrated exemplary college instructors in May. The Economics Department Chair, Melissa Binder, who had the honor of presenting the award, highlighted thr...read more
2024 Pizza and Professionals
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
Jacquelyn Rambo, Project Lead at the National Nuclear Safety Administration, offers career advice to students at the Pizza with Professionals networking event. Other panelists, from left to right were: Joel Villarreal, Labor Advocate at the AFL-CIO,...read more
Goldman Sachs Gives Public Service in Health Care Award established with $500,000 endowment
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
Goldman Sachs Gives Public Service in Health Care Award established with $500,000 endowment Beginning in the 2025-2026 academic year, one major barrier to receiving career development experience for students in the Department of Economics and the S...read more
Economics Department Hosting Pizza with Professionals Lunch and Discussion
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
The Department is hosting a Pizza with Professionals Lunch and Discussion on February 21, 12-1PM in ECON 1052. Learn from UNM Economics alumns about what they've accomplished with their Economics degree. See the flyer for more information!...read more
Three Economics Majors Awarded ASSURE Funding
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
The Arts & Sciences Support for Undergraduate Research Experience program (ASSURE) will support three economics majors this Spring as they pursue research projects under the mentorship of economics faculty members. Economics garnered 1/8 of all...read more
Adrian Balderamos Lands Prestigious Research Position at the Federal Reserve
Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 04:52pm
In the first year of our BA/MA shared credit program, Adrian Balderamos received a job offer with the United States Federal Reserve Bank in Washington, D.C. with a start date after graduating with his MA in Economics....read more
