Internship at the Public Policy Institute of California

The Richard J. Riordan Summer Internships opportunities are now posted on PPIC’s website.  For detailed position descriptions and application instructions for these six policy research internships, go to http://www.ppic.org/main/position.asp?i=3269.

PPIC offices are located in San Francisco and Sacramento, California. 

Openings at the Chicago Fed for B.S.

Associate Economist 

Immediate Opportunity at The Chicago Fed

Conducts statistical and economic analyses of macroeconomic, microeconomic and regional data, and provides research support for the economists.

FYI: Unpaid Internship at Dept of Justice

Unpaid Summer Economics Internships 

Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice

The Economic Analysis Group in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has openings for two unpaid summer interns.

Welcome Chris Shannon

I am delighted to let you know that Chris Shannon, the Richard N. Merkin Professor of Economics and Mathematics, arrived a few weeks ago as the newest member of the social science faculty.  Her office, which is still being renovated, is 325 Baxter.

Professor Shannon was an undergraduate economics and mathematics major at Kansas and a graduate student at Stanford.  She comes to us from Berkeley, where she was an award-winning teacher and a distinguished researcher.   One of her Ph.D. students there was our own Professor Echenique.  She has also been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, Tilburg, Copenhagen, and Caltech, and she is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Her specialty, as you might guess from her title, is mathematical economics.  As a graduate student at Stanford, she opened the field known as "monotone comparative statics," which uses lattice-theoretic methods instead of calculus to sign the effects of changes in exogenous variables.  Lately she has worked on decision theory with incomplete preferences.  In the spring she will be teaching an advanced graduate seminar (SS 211c).

Lake Partners Consulting

Lake Partners, a boutique strategy consulting firm in downtown Seattle, have a full-time opening for an Analyst.  They  are interested in all majors, including Engineering, Communications, Neuroscience, and Political Science.  

Students with questions can address them to recruiting@lakepartners.com.

M.S. Program in "Analytics" at Northwestern U.

Launching in September 2012, the Master of Science in Analytics program prepares students to harness the full value of data, guiding organizational decision-making and innovation in the 21st century.

FWD: Paid Internships

We hope that you will assist us in spreading the word about The Washington Center's Summer 2012 Competitive Government Program on your campus. Selected students will intern for 10 weeks at offices within the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, Internal Revenue Service, or another agency. Positions may be available in Washington, D.C. and several regional locations, and all participants will take part in academic programming provided by TWC.