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Today we feature a story on an �鶹��Ƶ Assistant Professor of Economics, Dr. Brooks Depro, who sought to answer how to make coursework more relevant to his students. The work he has done was recently published in an article title: “Making introductory economics more relevant: Using personalized connections to introduce environmental economics”. You can read more about his story and SoTL process below.

The university's top undergraduate research award comes with $20,000 to support and celebrate academic and creative achievements.

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce the recipients of the 11th annual Diversity and Inclusion Grants for the 2022-23 academic year.

�鶹��Ƶ’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning is helping position the university as a national thought leader in teaching practices and supporting student learning.

During the Alamance Chamber Women’s Symposium, the associate professor of economics discussed the decline in the women’s labor participation rate during the pandemic.

The Martha and Spencer Love Professor of Economics receives recognition in Poets&Quants’ Top 50 professors list for 2021.

The article about plans by Vietnamese carmaker VinFast to build a $4 billion manufacturing plant in Chatham County cited insights from Assistant Professor of Economics Tonmoy Islam.

Islam, an assistant professor of economics, offered insight into how increases in wage rates could impact other areas of the economy.

A group of senior economics students participated as presenters, discussants and session chairs during the Issues in Political Economy conference.

The research project not only helped tell the story of SEED Effect’s microfinance program for South Sudanese refugees and Ugandans, it led to the �鶹��Ƶ alumna discovering her passion for “doing meaningful data work.”