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The fate of arsenic compounds depends on their surface interactions with geosorbents that include minerals and natural organic matter.
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Dr. Rees’s SSHRC-funded research helps to inform science and math education, providing children with a love of discovery and the confidence to ask great questions and look to science for the answers.
Posted on: July 5, 2012
Professor Linda Ghent from Eastern Illinois University, Associate Professor Alan Grant from Baker University and Assistant to the Dean George Lesica from Eastern Illinois University have developed a cool site on the Economics of Seinfeld ! Seinfeld was a nine seasons TV show on NBC about events occurring in the daily lives of Jerry, George,…
Read morePosted on: July 5, 2012
Joshua Hall, Robert Lawson and Dirk Mateer developed a weblog which offers a variety of song lyrics which we can use to teach economics! Use ABBA or Led Zeppelin or country music, or rap to teach opportunity cost, scarcity, greed, unemployment and many more topics in economics. You will find a selection from the song’s…
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Dirk Mateer, a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Penn State, uses pop culture in principle economics courses to help students understand and appreciate core concepts. He has collected many resources to help students learn economics and have fun in the process. At his site you will find television, film, and lecture clips to introduce many…
Read morePosted on: July 4, 2012
Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides interesting economic lectures from well known Economists. Robert Shiller is Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Fellow at the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management. Professor Shiller is offering free of charge via the internet a course in Financial Markets. John…
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Worried about educational costs rising? Textbooks being too expensive? Want to save some money for your students? Check out Flat World Knowledge! All you have to do is visit Flat World Knowledge and select an economics textbook. You can find textbooks on principles of economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, international economics, international trade, international finance, macro theory…
Read morePosted on: July 3, 2012
Congratulations to our 2012 graduates with a major in economics or a major in Economics and political studies! On behalf of the Department of Economics we wish you success with your future endeavors. Keep in touch! BURCHNALL, SARA, BA, (Major in Economics) CONDON, ALEX, BA, (Major in Economics, Governor’s General Academic Silver Award and Thompson…
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The Saylor Foundation is a not-profit organization established by Michael J. Saylor, founder and CEO of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy and the Foundation’s sole trustee. Mr. Saylor created the Foundation because he believes education should be free. Knowledge is a global public good. It is non-rival as it does not reduce the quantity available to…
Read morePosted on: July 3, 2012
Steven Thompson Holm was born and raised in Kamloops, and graduated from the South Kamloops Secondary School French Immersion Program with an Ambassador’s Scholarship to TRU. A Business Administration student, majoring in Economics and Finance with Honours, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Economics and was the co-president of the Economics…
Read morePosted on: July 2, 2012
The 2102 Governor General’s Academic Silver Medal and Thompson Rivers University Medal in Arts was awarded to Alexander Condon. Alexander Condon was born in Victoria, BC and graduated from Oalk Bay High School. He transferred from UBC to TRU in 2009 as an Arts student and athlete. The many friendships he developed with his Wolfpack…
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During the spring of 2011, MIT celebrated its 150th anniversary with symposiums, performances, exhibits and landmark events. This post links to symposiums on Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy. Insight are provided by a panel of prominent Economists: Opening Remarks on Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy Keynote Address…
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