WELCOME BACK

back to Gettysburg! We are looking forward to another great year. With the large and growing field of presidential candidates in the US, there will be lots of economic policy proposals to scrutinize. Try to stay awake. This year, we welcome three new faculty members, and we recognize the permanent addition of another. Before introducing you to these new professors, I should point out that we are going to miss two of our regular faculty members for the year. Prof. Baltaduonis has accepted a one-year appointment at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). This experience will benefit students tremendously as Prof. Baltaduonis makes more contacts, starts new research projects, establishes new partnerships, etc. We wish him luck! Prof. Murphy is also on leave this year as he launches a new business venture in the private sector. This is an exciting opportunity for Prof. Murphy, and it will only enhance his ability to be our strongest advocate for student internships and jobs after graduation. Good luck to Prof. Murphy, too! The new addition to the tenure track faculty is Assistant Professor Maria Ivanova Reyes who served in a one-year visiting instructor position last year. Congratulations, Prof. Reyes! The first new face in the department is Visiting Assistant Professor Marta Maras. Professor Maras will be teaching finance and the senior seminar in applied micro. Next, two adjuncts, Robert Cavender and David Schlow, will be joining us teaching a variety of courses from intro to senior seminars. Please welcome all three of our new faculty members! Once again, I am going to try to address most chair questions on a separate day from my office hours for students in my classes. This Fall, Chair office hours for things like study abroad, declaring a major, etc., will be on Wednesdays, 9-11 am. Of course, I am in all day most days, so if you need to see me at a different time, email or stop by. If you can make the Wednesday, 9-11 am slot work, though, that would be terrific! As always, your first point of contact for most things is going to be Sue. This Summer was a whirlwind for me on the personal side. I got married after graduation in May, and raised the number of children in our family from two to five. Luckily, one is an independent college graduate, and another graduated from MCRD Parris Island in July. The …