2020 Venu and Ana Kotamraju Endowed Scholarship Fund Award Recipient Biography: Iris(Shuqing) Liu is a second-year student at UCLA, pursuing a double degree in Economics and Communication. She is also an international student from Xi’an, China. Before coming to UCLA, she studied in Singapore under a scholarship for four years. She is passionate about […]
2020 Patricia and Harry L. Bruce Endowed Scholarship Recipient Biography: Moore Reisin-Tzur is a third year at UCLA majoring in Business Economics and participating in the Value Investing Concentration. Although raised in the Bay Area, next to Stanford his entire life, he travels to Israel annually to visit his extended family. Going into college […]
2020 Donald Edward Bragg & Diane Sims Bragg Scholarship Recipient Biography: Aneri Patel is a third-year Business Economics major with a minor in Entrepreneurship from Sacramento, CA. Inspired at a young age to embrace an entrepreneurial spirit, she knew that she wanted to pursue a career which combined creative business problem-solving and the future […]
2021 Donald Edward Bragg & Diane Sims Bragg Scholarship Recipient Biography: Michelle Kaviona is a third year double majoring in Business Economics and Communication. Born and raised in Indonesia, she sought international educational experience in the United States to broaden her knowledge which brought her to UCLA. Michelle currently holds leadership positions in the […]
Jeffery W. Baus ‘59 Scholarship Recipient Biography: Claire Germano is a 3rd year Business Economics major minoring in Accounting. She was raised in Santa Monica, California and is the first of her immediate family to pursue a career in Accounting. Originally an Electrical Engineering major, she first became interested in Economics during her freshman year […]
2020 Lawrence and Joan E. Anderson Fund Recipient Biography: Angelina Dang is currently a junior at UCLA with a major in Business Economics and a minor in Accounting. Born and raised in China, she came to the United States three years ago to pursue a Bachelor’s degree at UCLA. Here, many challenging yet fascinating courses […]
Earlier this week, Professor Lee Ohanian joined Eleni Kounalakis, Lieutenant Governor of California, presented and discussed why California businesses are leaving the state in “The Exodus of Firms from California: Facts, Reasons, Solutions” for the Policy Seminar presented by the Hoover Institution. View article here
February 2, 2021 As UCLA continued to teach remotely for Fall 2020, our faculty continued to adapt their teaching methods to provide a high level of education to our students. We are very thankful to have the prestigious and innovative faculty that we have. We want to give a big congratulations to Andy Atkeson—the winner […]
As Oracle, Palantir and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise move their headquarters out of California and Elon Musk moves to Texas, California is considering raising taxes on the wealthy to unprecedented levels. Lee Ohanian and other experts say California needs to find more ways to reverse the trend. Watch the full video produced by CNBC, “What’s Driving California’s […]
The UCLA Department of Economics is sad to announce that William R. Allen (1924-2021) passed away on January 15, 2021. Allen obtained his A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) from Cornell College (1948) and his Ph.D. from Duke University (1953). He instructed at Washington University prior to joining the UCLA faculty in 1952. He has been a visiting […]
