Fifteen teams of students will compete in the Bud Albin Challenge Round, the semi-final round of the Holloway Prize Innovation-to-Market Competition. The semi-final round will be held Friday, April 26, 2013, during the UNH Undergraduate Research Conference. The business plan competition runs from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics.

Promising entrepreneurs hoping to win this year’s record $25,000 Holloway Prize – the oldest business plan competition in the state and one of the first in the nation – will vie in the first stage of the competition this April, having only 10 minutes to make their best first impression.

LECTURER POSITIONS in ECONOMICS, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics

The University of New Hampshire’s PAUL College is seeking to fill two or three visiting positions in economics for the 2013/14 academic year.

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The recession: The economic downturn in 2008 and early 2009 is thought to be the major reason for the jump in disability payments to people who were formerly working.

"With every recession, we see a rise in the number of applicants," said Andrew Houtenville, an economics professor at the University of New Hampshire's Institute on Disability. "People are looking for options in terms of income support."

Program Highlights

The Paul College of Business and Economics Distinguished Lecture will present Douglas Irwin, the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in Social Sciences at Dartmouth College, Thursday, March 28, from 5-6:15 p.m. at the Paul College, room 175. A reception immediate follows.

Irwin will give the talk “Bono, Sweatshops, and Outsourcing: Thinking About the Global Economy.”

For more information contact Mostafa Beshkar. assistant professor of economics and Peter T. Paul Research Fellow at Mostafa [dot] Beshkar [at] unh [dot] edu or 2-1227.

The Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics is pleased to announce that professor Michael D. Goldberg will be awarded the Todd H. Crockett Professor of Economics on Friday, Feb. 15. Dean Daniel Innis cordially invites the entire UNH community to come and celebrate Goldberg’s award and achievements. 

On the bright side, interest rates on consumer loans could head lower as global investors retreat into cash and safe investments, including paradoxically U.S. Treasuries, says Michael Goldberg, Roland H. O'Neal professor at the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics.