B-W Alumni:
Kristen Laughlin-Caroff class of 2006, is with FTN Midwest securities Corp of Cleveland as a Sales Trader.
Ryan Reed, B-W class of 2005, and MA, University of Leeds, is employed as a staff economist with National City Bank where his duties include presentations of online seminars such as that entitled Ohio State Economic Outlook: National City Regional Tour .
Jason Pinizzotto Class of 2004, formerly of Ernst & Young as a staff external auditor, has moved to RPM International Inc. where he has worked during the past year. RPM International Inc is a holding company that acquires other profitable chemical coatings and sealants companies, including Tremco, DAP, Rust-Oleum, Bondo, and StonCor. Jason travels to operating companies and performs financial and operational audits.
Economics Students Make News
Current class offerings involve students in problem solving. Here Advanced statistics students discuss estimation problems with real world examples
More Alumni:
Sherif Ayoub, B-W class of 1998 graduated from Columbia University in May of 2006 with a Master's degree and is currently in the Young Professional Program at the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah. Mr. AyoubI will be performing in the Poverty Reduction Division. In the past two years, Sherif has had the opportunity to work with UNDP, World Bank (in Guinea), UNICEF and USAID (in Cairo).
Jacklyn Gribben, an economics and mathematics graduate of B-W, is currently attending law school at the University of Seattle.
Michele Knapp, who worked as a research assistant to Dr. Heinicke, received a scholarship from the Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation and is currently attending Law school at the University of Akron. Michele has interned at Law Firms in the Cleveland area.
Faculty News
Dr. Robert Ebert and B-W alum Timothy Fijalkovich along with James R. Neal co-authored The World's Toughest Truck, the Reo/Diamond-Reo Story. Dr. Ebert also has authored books on Divco Trucks and Flxible Bus History A History of the Bus and the Company Dr.Robert Ebert and research assistant, Timothy Fijalkovich recently gave a presentation in Dayton at the Society of Automotive Historians' conference. The topic of the presentation was Reo and Diamond Reo trucks.
Dr. Sandra Peart has recently published a book with co-authored with David Levy entitled The "Vanity of the Philosopher": From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics.
Dr. Craig Heinicke presented two of his papers over the last academic year. One was at the University of Akron entitled "If Selective, then How? Selective Service, World War II, and Paternalism in the South,"and the other at Cleveland State, both to their economics departments. Dr. Heinicke also had entries in the The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration published by the Greenwood press (2006), and an article of his ranks in the top fifty of the most read articles in Social Science History.
Dr. Veronica Kalich had a rare opportunity recently to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia's former president. Dr. Kalich accompanied John Barnes, International Affairs Liason for Mayor Jane Campbell, City of Cleveland, to a dinner hosted for the former Russian president. Dr. Kalich, who speaks fluent Russian, accompanied Mr. Barnes, in part, to act as interpreter for Mr. Gorbachev, who speaks only Russian. Mr. Gorbachev came on behalf of the Future of Russia Foundation. Dr. Kalich was there with Mr. Barnes of City Hall with the express purpose of improving relations for Cleveland's Sister City project. Cleveland has established a "sister city" relationship in Russia, along with about 20 other cities in the world.
Dr. Peart also has edited W.S. Jevons: Critical Responses. The four volume set has been published by Routledge. Dr. Peart began work on the project in 1998 and was assisted by Economics majors, Julie Robbins and Rebecca Filkins.
Monica Mancini, a senior economics and business major, was awarded the Ohio Association of Economists and Political Scientists prize for outstanding undergraduates paper in economics at the October 18/19, 2002 meetings of the association. Her paper was a demand analysis of American tourist travel to the United Kingdom.
Dr. Sandra Peart Publishes On-Line
Dr. Peart has an on-line column in The Library of Economics and Liberty, a website dedicated to advancing the study of economics, market economies, and liberty. Together with her co-author, David M. Levy, she has authored six installments:
The Secret History of the Dismal Science:
Economics, Religion and Race in the 19th Century
Brotherhood, Trade, and the "Negro Question"
The Governor Eyre Controversy
Paternalism, Hierarchy and Markets
Parasite Economics and Market Exchange
Eugenics and Amoralization of Economics
An Inquiry into the Causes which Affect the The Happiness of Nations: The Comfort of the Lower Orders (New!)
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