Soren Hauge, professor of economics, spoke Thursday, June 16, for Spectrum News 1, a statewide news and information network. He discussed key interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve in an effort to tamp down inflation. He said these efforts will make things more expensive for people in the short run. “In the longer run, […]
2009 Nobel Prize laureate Oliver E. Williamson ’54, a pioneer of organizational economics, died May 21, 2020, at the age of 87. Williamson majored in economics at Ripon from 1950 to 1952 on a dual two-year/three-year degree in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor’s degree from MIT in 1955, his […]
“You can’t teach passion; you can only plant the seed,” says Mark DeDina ’07 of Hampshire, Illinois. With the seed planted at Ripon and nurtured by the knowledge of professors here, DeDina has achieved a satisfying career in protecting the environment. DeDina has been with ENCAP, an environmental consulting firm, since 2007 and is now […]
A team of Ripon College faculty has received a National Science Foundation grant of $297,715 for the project “Building Capacity for Interdisciplinary Quantitative Reasoning Instruction.” The grant award, number DUE-1822414, is funded through the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources solicitation. Principal investigators of the project are Andrea Young, special assistant to the […]