Welcome to Graduate Economics Central!
This is 'home base' for information about courses, events, career resources, and other news related to your academic program at the College of Management. Please check this site regularly to stay informed of new opportunities and other news regarding your program.
Announcements and Upcoming Events
Part-time Opportunity with the Institute for Nonprofits : The NCSU Institute for Nonprofits has a part-time graduate assistant position available beginning in January 2010. See here for more information.
Local, Part-time Research Opportunity: A local financial analysis software company is looking for a graduate student with experience / expertise in economic regression or statistical correlation to work part-time on a research project involving one of their company’s products. The basic premise of the project is tying loan loss data for banks to local, regional, or national macro-economic conditions through statistics and regression techniques.
Interested students should contact Nicole Wolfgang at nicole.wolfgang@sageworksinc.com or at (919) 851-7474 ext 514.
Graduate Student Research Symposium: The Graduate Program in Economics is currently looking for students interested in participating in the Fifth Annual NC State University Graduate Student Research Symposium, to be held in the McKimmon Center on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm. The goals of the symposium are to showcase the outstanding quality and diversity of graduate-level research at NC State, in addition to providing students with the opportunity to practice their communication skills with those outside of their discipline. Last year, there were 159 poster presentations, representing 60 graduate programs from every college. Information about the symposium is available at http://www.ncsu.edu/grad/research/symposium.html. If you are interested in participating, please contact Tamah.
The Eastern Economics Association (EEA) meeting will be held in Philadelphia, PA from February 26 through February 28, 2010. The deadline to submit a paper is November 15, 2009. Papers submitted on or before October 15, 2009 can be submitted for a discounted rate. Please see the meeting announcement for more information.
The Center for Governance and Economic Growth at RTI is accepting applications for internship positions in international development. While the deadline for the fall semester positions has passed, they are accepting applications on a rolling basis for later start dates.
Upcoming Economics Workshops:
Here is a brief listing of the upcoming economics workshops. For more details, please see the workshops page.
- Friday, November 20 -- Applied Micro -- Andrew Sweeting (Duke)
- Monday, November 23 -- Macro / IT -- Chris Lundblad (UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School)
- Monday, November 30 -- Macro / IT -- Karine Yenokyan (NCSU)
- Tuesday, December 1 -- Agricultural Economics -- Melinda Morrill (NCSU)
- Wednesday, December 2 -- CENReP Lunch -- Xiangping Liu (NCSU)
- Thursday, December 3 -- TREE at RTI -- Joshua Linn (Resources for the Future)
- Friday, December 4 -- Triangle Econometrics Conference -- keynote Joel Horowitz (Northwestern)
- Friday, December 4 -- Finance -- Paige Ouimet (UNC)
Beginning this semester, ALL graduate students are required to submit a semesterly progress report with information about completed courses, progress on research, completion of required milestones, work experience, etc. This progress report can be entered using GSOARS, the University's Graduate Student Online Academic Reporting System. For those of you going on the job market, GSOARS will generate a CV based on the information you enter. Please have your updates completed no later than September 30, 2009.
Funding Opportunities
National Research Initiative Fellowship, American Enterprise Institute
The NRI fellowship targets graduates interested in spending up to two postdoctoral years at AEI, as well as doctoral students engaged in dissertation research. Candidates should be students studying economics, political science, law or public policy with a research agenda focused on domestic policy issues. Candidates whose research centers on foreign policy will not be considered. Fellows will conduct original, empirical research and writing projects independently and in partnership with AEI scholars, and will be expected to produce a paper of publishable quality during their time at the Institute. Fellows are awarded generous stipends in amounts comparable to entry-level faculty positions within their disciplines, as well as other employee benefits.
The deadline for applications is December 4, 2009. More information about the academic fellowship program and application details can be found on our website at: www.aei.org/fellowships.
NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes
Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate
Students. The Summer
Institutes are hosted by foreign counterparts committed to increasing
opportunities for young U.S. researchers to work in research facilities
and with host mentors abroad. Fellows are supported to participate in
eight-week research experiences at host laboratories in Australia,
China, Japan (10 weeks), Korea, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan from
June to August. The program provides a $5,000 summer stipend, round-trip
airfare to the host location, living expenses abroad, and an
introduction to the society, culture, language, and research environment
of the host location. The 2010 application is now open and will close December 8, 2009. For more information, see http://www.nsfsi.org/
New Students
Information for Newly Admitted Students (Fall 2009)
