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	Professor Marcelle Chauvet’s Research Makes a Splash in Financial Blogs and Financial Markets. Professor Chauvet has developed a real‐time recession prediction model that is widely popular in the media and business community. She is consulted frequently by the U.S. government, foreign governments, and the regional and international business community. The model gives a real time assessment of the strength or weakness of the economy on a current basis and the results are regularly posted on her webpage. https://sites.google.com/site/marcellechauvet/probabilities-of-recession The probabilities from Chauvet and Piger (2008) are now being posted in the widely accessed FRED database from the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/RECPROUSM156N Recent probabilities readings caused turmoil in the financial markets: http://seekingalpha.com/article/981171-u-s-recession-odds-100 http://pragcap.com/clarifying-the-recession-probability-indicator The interpretation was later on corrected by Chauvet and Piger and posted at: http://www.businessinsider.com/debunking-the-100-recession-chart-2012-11 http://recessionalert.com/debunking-100-probabilities-of-recession-calls/ http://pragcap.com/clarifying-the-recession-probability-indicator
	A team of five faculty member from CHASS, CNAS and BCOE, including Professor Anil Deolalikar (who is co-PI), has been awarded a $3 million NSF IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) grant beginning July 2012. The grant will provide four-year fellowships to several Ph.D students across all three colleges over a five-year period. The selected students will pursue a doctoral degree in their respective fields but will also receive additional mentorship and training in the area of water (e.g., the supply of clean drinking water; the economics of water demand and distribution; the relationship between water and well-being, ect.). Being an NSF grant, the fellowships will be open to US nationals and permanent residents interested in the field of water. More information on IGERTs is available at www.igert.org. The grant will be housed in the One Health Center, which is a Center of Expertise, co-directed by Professor Deolalikar, in the UC Global Health Institute.
	Professor Helfand is the recipient of this year's senior CHASS Distinguished Teaching Award.This includes the Patricia McSweeny McCauley Chair in Teaching Excellence, which is given to Professor Helfand because of his demonstrated excellence in teaching in CHASS.
	Professor Mindy Marks research on changes in college student time use has been featured in the NY Times, CNN and The Boston Globe. The research documents that: "The average student spent only about 12 to 13 hours per week studying — about half the time a full-time college student in 1960 spent studying" http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/opinion/15arum.html http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/23/college-students-less-study-more-leisure/ http://articles.boston.com/2010-07-04/bostonglobe/29288580_1_college-students-students-and-professors-college-admissions-officials
	Distinguished Professor Aman Ullah was honored for his contributions to the study of econometrics with an Inetrnational Econometrics Symposium in the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China, on May 24. The one-day conference was organized by Professors Qi Li and Li Gan of Texas A & M University and Essie Maasoumi of Emory University.
	Professor Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera has been elected to the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasters (http://www.forecasters.org ).
	Ullah Elected AAAS Fellow Professor Aman Ullah has been elected an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. Professor Ullah is recognized "for outstanding contributions in mathematical sciences, for outstanding contribution to graduate study, and for contributions in the field of statistical inference." Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed by the AAAS because of efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished. The fellows will receive official certification at the AAAS Annual Meeting on February 17, 2011 in Washington, D.C.