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
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.
The PhD/ Masters Career Fair will take place at the Friday Center, Chapel Hill, on November 12, 1:00-4:30. This event is sponsored by a consortium of six North Carolina graduate schools including NC State, Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Charlotte, UNC-Greensboro, and Wake Forest. Directions to the event can be found at: http://www.fridaycenter.unc.edu/directions/index.htm A full list of employers along with the degrees they seek and other pertinent information is available at http://www.ncsu.edu/career/careerfairparts/mastersphp006.php
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.
- Thursday, November 5 -- TREE at RTI -- Jay Shimshack (Tulane University)
- Thursday, November 5 -- Triangle Econometrics at RTI -- Gary Chamberlain (Harvard)
- Monday, November 9 -- Macro / IT -- Brad Sturgill (NCSU)
- Tuesday, November 10 -- Agricultural Economics -- Ivan Kandilov and Mitch Renkow (NCSU)
- Thursday, November 12 -- TREE at RTI -- Carolyn Kousky (Resources for the Future)
- Thursday, November 12 -- Triangle Econometrics at RTI -- Frank Kleibergen (Brown)
- Friday, November 13 -- Finance -- Srini Krishnamurthy (NCSU)
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
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/
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
Applications for the Ford Foundation's Diversity Fellowships are currently being accepted for current PHD students as well as recent PHD graduates looking for a post-doctoral opportunity. "Through its program of Diversity Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students."
The predoctoral fellowship applications are due on November 2, 2009. Dissertation and post-doctoral applications are due November 9, 2009. More information about the predoctoral, dissertation, and post-doctoral fellowships can be obtained at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/index.htm
New Students
Information for Newly Admitted Students (Fall 2009)
