Letter From the Chair
This letter usually conveys the current state of the department, which is changing rapidly. In the past three years we have opened a new major (international economics), a new minor (business economics), a new concentration (financial economics); we have opened our first research center (the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities); and we are now the most popular major in the University, with approximately 600 majors. Next year alone, we will add at least four new assistant professors and a new senior professional faculty member. And we aren't stopping there.