Michael Rauh will never forget when he first arrived on campus in 2005 to join the BEPP faculty. “The faculty had decided to protest en masse against the IU President [at the time]. Hundreds of professors met in the IU Auditorium to speak out against him,” says Rauh. “While this was going on, a tornado… Read more »
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Faculty Spotlight: Andrew Butters
Before beginning graduate school, Andrew Butters worked as an Associate Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. “I feel fortunate to have gotten that opportunity,” says Butters, who worked on the inflation and international memos for the Federal Open Market Committee meetings. He also helped create the National Financial Conditions Index. “I got to… Read more »
New Faculty: Jia Xiang
You never know how life will turn out. Just ask Jia Xiang, who once majored in film directing. “I wrote my script and produced my own little movie!” says Xiang, who grew up in Sichuan Province, China, an area famous for its spicy food and pandas. Midway through her studies, however, she pivoted and decided… Read more »
Faculty Spotlight: Matthijs R. Wildenbeest
Matthijs R. Wildenbeest joined IU in 2007, right after earning his Ph.D. in Economics from Erasmus University in the Netherlands. He’s currently teaching Business Econometrics in the undergraduate program and Predictive Analytics for Business Strategy in the online MBA program. In recent years, he’s also taught Predictive Analytics for Business Strategy in the residential MBA… Read more »