Department News

Good Food, Smiles at Deartment's Semester-End Christmas Party

The Department of Economics would like to extend a big mahalo to everyone who came out to this year's semester-end Christmas party!

  

View more photos from the end of semester party on our Centennial Website's photo gallery.

posted on December 28, 2007

Susan Furmanski Chosen as a Student Marshal for Fall 07 Commencement

Economics major Susan Furmanski was selected to be one of four Student Marshals to represent the Colleges of Arts and Sciences at the Fall 2007 commencement, which was held on December 16 at the Stan Sheriff Center. Student Marshals are chosen on the basis of their scholarship and their leadership contributions to the University. Furmanski's selection is the latest among several economics undergraduates over the last few years to be chosen as Student Marshals. Congratulations to Ms. Furmanski for this significant honor!

posted on December 28, 2007

Emeritus Economics Professor Seiji Naya awarded honorary doctorate degree

Seiji Naya, Emeritus Professor at UH Manoaís Department of Economics, has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan.

Naya is a Distinguished Visiting Senior Fellow at the East-West Center, former Director of the Stateís Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, and former chief economist for the Asian Development Bank.

When he accepted his honorary degree on Oct. 12, Dr. Naya also delivered a presentation on East Asian economic integration and Japan.

Kwansei Gakuin University is a highly regarded private school located in Nishinomiya, Japan, which is between Kobe and Osaka.

posted on November 14, 2007

Professor Sally Kwak Awarded Research Fellowship

Congratulations to Professor Sally Kwak on being awarded a David C. Lincoln Fellowship in Land Value Taxation from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy located in Boston! This award will support her research project, Biases in Estimating the Effect of Hawaii's Split Rate Property Tax Reform on Long-Run Spatial Development. The Fellowship program encourages new work in the field of land value taxation, either in basic theory or in its application as a component of contemporary fiscal systems in countries throughout the world. Professor Kwak's award will be announced in the January 2008 issue of the Institute's newsletter, Land Lines.

posted on October 22, 2007

UH Econ Alumnus Appointed Chair of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's Economics Deptartment

Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Heinrich, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, on becoming chair of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's Department of Economics! Dr. Heinrich received his M.A. degree from the University of Hawaii's Department of Economics in 1995, and went on to receive his Ph.D. degree from us in 1998. The Economics Department extends its congratulations to him on his early rise into leadership!

posted on October 18, 2007

Job Announcement: Assistant Professor, Economics

The Department of Economics invites applications for a position at the assistant professor level, full-time, tenure track beginning August 1, 2008. For more information on the position and how to apply, please see our Job Announcements 2008 page.

posted on October 1, 2007

Alumni Give Large Donations

Mahalo to Dr. Ae Sil Kim who recently gave $10,000 to the Burnham Campbell Endowment Fund. Dr. Kim received her Ph.D. from the economics department in 1977; she was the first women from South Korea to receive a Ph.D. in economics. After receiving her Ph.D., she devoted many years of public service to her country, including serving as an economic advisor to the President of South Korea. Currently, she serves in the South Korea National Assembly.

Mahalo also to Dr. Chris Grootaert, who has given the department a $10,000 installment on his total donation of $50,000 to the Christiaan Grootaert Endowment Fund, which was set up to provide undergraduate scholarships in economics. Christiaan received his Ph.D. in economics in 1978 and recently retired from the World Bank, where he served as the lead economist in the social development department. He was so appreciative of the quality education he received at UHM that he wanted to establish an endowment for undergraduate economics majors, especially students of Native Hawaiian ancestry. The Chris Grootaert Endowed Scholarship Fund was established in 2005 to fulfill this desire.

posted on July 2, 2007

Professors' Paper Accepted for AEA Conference Presentation

"Is Foreign Direct Investment Good for Growth? Evidence from Sectoral Analysis of China and Vietnam," a paper by department professors Byron Gangnes and Ilan Noy, and Professor Tam Vu of UH-Hilo (an economics department alumna), has been accepted for AEA Conference Presentation in New Orleans in January 2008. Congratulations to the three of them!

posted on July 2, 2007