Ngan Dinh ’02 with majors in economics and Asian studies,\u00a0 who graduated magna cum laude,\u00a0 was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and won the Ralph J. Chances Prize as the outstanding economics major while here at Bates is now\u00a0 a key figure in the creation of Fulbright University Vietnam, the first university to bring the liberal arts experience to Vietnamese students.<\/p>\n
For more information:\u00a0 \u2018JUST LIKE BATES\u2019: NGAN DINH \u201902 HELPS BUILD VIETNAM\u2019S FIRST LIBERAL ARTS UNIVERSITY<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0.<\/p>\n Lynne Lewis, Elmer W. Campbell Professor of Economics<\/strong>, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE). AERE currently has more than 1,000 members from over thirty countries – academic insitutions, the public sector and private industry. AERE also host the top two journals in the field. More information can be found at HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 2019 Maine Economics Conference was held at Bates.\u00a0 Charlie Kolstad ’69, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Economic Policy Research & Precourt Institute for Energy, and Professor of Economics at Stanford University, was the keynote speaker for this event.\u00a0 He talked on:\u00a0 “Estimating the Economic Impacts of Climate Change Using Weather Observations.” More information to follow.<\/p>\n Matthew Botsch, Bowdoin College ANNOUNCEMENTS: December 2018 Ngan Dinh ’02 with majors in economics and Asian…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2021","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2021\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}November 2018<\/h3>\n
UPCOMING EVENTS:<\/h2>\n
April 27, 2019
\n7th Maine Economics Conference<\/h3>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nLuke Chicoine, Bates College
\nLeshui He, Bates College
\nRobert Lester, Colby College
\nJim McConnon, University of Maine
\nStephen Morris, Bowdoin College
\nPaul Shea, Bates College
\nMario Teisl, University of Maine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"