Student News
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Olusina Akingbade, a graduate student in urban policy studies, recently won a national award from the American Public Transit Association for his work in the program's transportation specialization and related internship with the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.

Economics doctoral student Jameson Boex' paper "Identifying the Attributes of Effective Economics Instructors: An Analysis of Student Evaluation of Instructor Data" has been accepted for publication in the summer 2000 issue of the Journal of Economics Education.

Economics doctoral candidate Stephen Everhart is a resident country economist for the World Bank's Mexico City office. His article "Leading Indices and the FSU: The Case of Lithuania" was published in World Bank's Policy Research Working Paper Series.

Economics graduate student Carol Robinson presented "Consistent Risk Measurement and the Estimation of the Value of a Statistical Life" in August at the 7th Annual Triangle Camp Resources, Wilmington, N.C.

Economics graduate student Marcela Szymanski was one of 30 U.S. graduate students invited by the University System of Georgia's European Union Center to attend a one-week program of meetings and interviews with European Union officials in June in Brussels, Belgium.

Photo above: THE CROWNING TOUCH: Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes (right) presented economics graduate Dagney Faulk with the traditional academic hood signifying the completion of the Ph.D. degree. Faulk began a new position as assistant professor of economics at Indiana University Southeast this fall.