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W W W . P A C E . E D U / D Y S O N 3 Inside Dyson Economics Students Present at Prestigious Conference In March 2024, five Economics depa ment faculty and 10 undergraduate and graduate students, all Dyson economics and business economics majors, presented their research papers at the annual Eastern Economic Association (EEA) conference in Boston, one of the major conferences for professional economists on the East Coast of the United States. The student presentations, organized by Assistant Professors Mary Kaltenberg, PhD, and Eric Osborne, PhD, focused on timely topics such as labor economics, spo s economics, applied microeconomics, and the savings and financial markets. Both faculty and students fielded many questions and comments from professional economists as well as other engaged a endees who took pa in the well- a ended sessions. The students' pa icipation in the conference is a prime example of the many innovative, experiential education oppo unities provided by the Economics depa ment (another being the College Federal Reserve Challenge, through which Pace's team won the National College Federal Reserve Challenge five times in the last nine years, besting Harvard and Princeton). As pa of their research leading up to the EEA conference, students had the oppo unity to develop analytical and quantitative skills, while also building their po olio and résumé in a way that will standout to employers, thus enhancing their competitive edge in today's job market. Liam Chentoufi '25; Macey Cooper '24; Brandon Diaz '24; Mariam Elzoghby '24; Giselle Garriga '24; Marvin Henry '24; Anastasia Khanukov '25; McKenna Moore '24; Shadman Rahman '24; and Thomas Shen '23 presented; Kristina Krichmarov '26 and Jackie Wong '24 served as discussants. In spring 2024, students from three courses, The A ist as Activist, Nonviolence: Theory and Practice, and Dramaturgy 1 engaged with the world-renowned, Vermont-based social justice theater company, Bread and Puppet, for a workshop at the Judson Memorial Church in New York City. The students wrote and pe ormed mini cantastoria (a theatrical form in which a pe ormer gestures to a series of images while telling or singing a story) in small groups (helped along by a Bread and Puppet puppeteer), with themes such as student loan debt, mass incarceration, and the destruction of our planet. These activities were punctuated by musical instruments they learned to play, as well as backdrops created on large sheets of white paper. Professor of English Sid Ray, PhD, Associate Professor of Peace and Justice Studies Emily Welty, PhD, as well as Adjunct Professor Aaron Ellis, PhD, Sands College (activist-in-residence for the Peace and Justice program in spring 2024), mentored students throughout this unique oppo unity. It was suppo ed by Dyson College's Experiential Learning Innovation Fund, an example of experiential learning at Pace that builds on classroom experience, yet is outside of a traditional civic engagement course. Students and faculty in a endance at the EEA conference. Bread and Puppet Theater Workshop ASYA GOROVITS

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