Andrew Boardman ‘19 majored in economics after dedicating much of his time at URI and his interest in economic research to work toward community change. He now works as a research assistant at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.
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Michael DiNardi, assistant professor of economics, analyzed aggregated anonymous mobile device GPS location data from SafeGraph, Inc., and Google Community Mobility Reports to measure how much time Rhode Islanders were spending at home.
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Economics
“My [economics research] team was chosen to represent the university at the Regional Fed Challenge in Boston. Competing allowed me to utilize everything I had learned over my time at URI and see how much knowledge I gained in economics.”
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Economics and English
“What I value most about my liberal arts education is its emphasis on what makes us human. By choosing the liberal arts, I chose an education that prepares me for a post-college world, a world full of people.”
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Through a summer fellowship, Economics major Paige Carmichael explored how variables in economics research can be influenced by gender norms, even though they are typically considered to be neutral.
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According to a 2017 study done by the National Center for Education Statistics, approximately 33% of undergraduate students will change their major within three years. As it turns out, Paige Carmichael of Warwick, Rhode Island, just so happens to fall under that category. The first in her family to go to college, Carmichael chose URI […]
Continue reading "Switching It Up: Paige Carmichael ‘20, on Why She Chose Economics"This year, several Arts and Sciences students won prestigious, competitive national scholarships: the Boren, Truman, and Fulbright. Chase Hall ‘19, double major in Political Science and Chinese and minor in Theatre, was awarded $20,000 through a Boren Scholarship to subsidize the cost of the Chinese Flagship Capstone Year at Nanjing University. One of the most […]
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To hear James King ’06 tell of how he came to work for Madeleine Albright brings to mind that J.R.R. Tolkien line: “Not all those who wander are lost.”
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The books, all published within the same week, highlight the European financial crisis, business impacts on economics, and ‘Marxism without guarantees.’
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