Accounting alumna Alicia Baksh-Ousman’s inspirational story was highlighted in the New York Times article “Convergence in the Tale of Two Cities”. Alicia served as the Accounting Society President and took part in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program during her time at Hunter. She joined CohnReznick, the accounting firm, after graduation.
Meet Chi Yeon Kim, the first Hunter student to be employed as an XBRL Summer Intern for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Established in 1973, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is the independent, private-sector, not-for-profit organization based in Norwalk, Connecticut, that establishes financial accounting and reporting standards for public and private companies and…
Randall K Filer, Professor of Economics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (and a Visiting Professor at CERGE-EI as well as a member of its Executive and Supervisory Committee) received the Czech Economic Society’s Medallion for “Long-Term Contribution to the Development of Czech Economic Science” in November…
Professor Sangeeta Pratap of the Economics Department has been awarded the Banamex Prize, Mexico’s most distinguished award for Economics. Established in 1951, this annual prize, administered by the Banco Nacional de Mexico, a leading commercial bank recognizes research that relates to the analysis and solution of economic problems in Mexico. Professor Pratap’s work “Credit, Misallocation…
On May 11, 2016, B.A./M.A. Economics Student Eden Volkov who also majors in Mathematics, was honored with induction into the Pi Mu Epsilon Honors Society for her excellence in mathematics with one of the ten highest GPAs among math majors at Hunter College. The Pi Mu Epsilon Honorary national mathematics society is dedicated to the…
Professor Lisa George was interviewed by the Associated Press Insights Blog for her research on “Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News,”. See her interview here and read more on Associated Press Insights.
Hunter College M.A. Economics student Carmen Vargas was featured in a BloombergView article by Cass R. Sunstein for her research on the effects of calorie labeling. Click here to read the article, “Calorie Counts Really Do Fight Obesity.” See the NBER working paper by Carmen Vargas and Hunter Professor Partha Deb, “Who Benefits from Calorie Labeling?…
Wei Yu joins the accounting program in the department of economics. Dr. Yu earned her doctorate degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, and has previously taught at University of Tennessee and Lehigh University. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Yu worked for KPMG as an auditor.
Jessica Van Parys is a new assistant professor of economics. Dr. Van Parys specializes in healthcare and public policy research. She will be spending the 2015-16 academic year as a post-doctoral researcher at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and will begin teaching at Hunter in the fall of 2016. Dr. Van…
Prof. Devra Golbe, Chair of the Economics Department, has been appointed to a four-year term on the Advisory Board for the New York City Independent Budget Office. The IBO provides non-partisan information about New York City’s budget and economy to the public and elected officials. It reviews the city’s annual budget, produces an annual forecast…