Congratulations Dr. Ali Tokay on receiving the NASA's GSFC Code 610 Atmospheres Performance Award in the category: Outstanding Performance – Outreach or Mentoring for his sustained mentoring of students in research internships.
Congratulations Dr. Yujie Wang on receiving NASA's GSFC Code 610 Atmospheres Performance Award in the category Noteworthy Contribution Group Award for Development of code MAIAC and release of MODIS collection 6 operational data product MCD19.
From undergraduate student at UMBC to Chief Economist and Under Secretary of Economic Affairs for the Department of Commerce under the Obama administration, Mark Doms ’86, mathematics and economics, has spent his career as an economist focused on economic public policy.
Specializing in monetary policy, forecasting, labor force developments, innovation, big data, and applied microeconomics, Doms has made hundreds of presentations about the U.S. economy and appeared regularly as a subject-matter expert on CNBC’s Squawk Box and Bloomberg. His highly-cited research is published regularly in top journals, earning Doms recognition in the top 3% of economists as measured by citations.
“Mark’s distinguished record of government service, along with a publication and Google Scholar citation count would be the envy of most academic economists,” said David Mitch, professor of economics and chair of the department at UMBC.
While a student at UMBC, Doms worked with the economics faculty to measure the costs and benefits of the Maryland vehicle emissions program. In a position he landed with the help of UMBC faculty, Doms also worked part-time as a student for a private company, assisting with the evaluation of a random design experiment of a welfare to work program.
After graduating from UMBC, Doms went on to pursue a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From there, Doms held positions at the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., before transferring to the Federal Reserve in San Francisco. In 2009, Doms joined the Obama administration as Chief Economist at the Department of Commerce, advising the Administration on a wide variety of issues, including trade, competitiveness, innovation, and education. In this role he oversaw and authored reports on the middle class, intellectual property, broadband adoption, productivity, and STEM education. In January 2013, the U.S. Senate confirmed Doms as Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the Department of Commerce, a position that oversaw the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, comprising more than 10,000 staff and budgets exceeding $1 billion.
After leaving the Obama administration, Doms worked for two years at Nomura Securities, Japan’s largest investment bank. There he monitored economic developments, developed economic forecasts, and traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and Asia. While Doms continues exploring his next step professionally, he remains thankful for the wonderful – and affordable – education that UMBC provided.
— Amy Dalrymple
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See the full list of 2018 Alumni Award honorees here.
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Pamela Bennett, Associate Professor of Public Policy, is co-author of a journal article with Amy Lutz, Associate Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University, and Rebecca Wang, Ph.D. graduate student in Sociology at Syracuse.
The article “Mismatch and academic performance at America’s selective colleges and universities” discusses the relationship between test score mismatch and academic performance, and whether any relationship particularly impacts racial minorities.
Prof. Bennett and her co-authors found that SAT mismatch is not associated with graduation from a selective institution, but is associated with lower grades.
The piece was published online this week in Ethical and Racial Studies and will be published in print in November 2018. For a limited time, the journal is offering free access to the online version.
The Department of English and Humanities at Shawnee State University and the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México invite scholars to submit 500 word abstracts on topics related to the character of the Black Panther in his various permutations in comic books and films for a two-day conference to be held April 19th and 20th, 2019 at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Interested scholars should send their abstract to BlackPantherConference2019@gmail.com by December 1st 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by January 1st 2018.
The abstract of 500 words should be accompanied by:
The conference organizers are also planning a co-edited volume for publication in English and Spanish in 2020 which will include a selection of the best papers presented at the Conference. Toward that end finalized papers of 8,000 words or less in MLA style need to be submitted electronically by May 30th, 2019.
Presentations may approach the subject from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary trajectories including but not limited to: history, post-colonial studies, comparative literature, comics studies, cinema studies and cultural studies which serve to elucidate the myriad ways in which the Black Panther character has influenced popular and scholarly thought over the past half century. V
Aaron Louis Rosenberg, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, El Colegio de México