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Category: Applied Economics and Statistics

Statistics student Audrey Bufano stands in a greenhouse at FMC, a global agricultural sciences company, where she can apply all of her statistics skills.

UD’s statistics 4+1 program gives Audrey Bufano valuable internship experience

April 02, 2024 Written by Nya Wynn | Photo by Evan Krape

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November 21, 2024 | Written by Nya Wynn

Anaise Higgins, a UD Class of 2023 graduate of the online master’s program in applied statistics, successfully transitioned into a data science career after completing her degree. The program's flexibility allowed her to work full time while gaining essential skills in areas such as machine learning and statistical methods, which she now uses as a data scientist with a top national insurance company.
Kamala Harris wants to ban grocery price gouging. What economists think of price controls

October 22, 2024 | Written by Hanna Seariac | Deseret News

University of Delaware Assistant Professor of Farm Management and Agricultural Economics Kofi Britwum is quoted in a Deseret News story about a proposed federal ban on food and grocery price gouging.
Climate conscious

October 04, 2024 | Written by Molly Schafer

Davidson Obilor Nwaonu, an agricultural and resource economics graduate student in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, wants to reduce agriculture’s contribution to climate change. His research seeks to understand how consumers make trade-offs between climate-smart attributes and health attributes while grocery shopping. Nwaonu is a scholar at the United States Department of Agriculture’s Graduate Student Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Partners, also known as USDA GradCAMP. Climate justice is important to Nwaonu, who came to UD from an area of Nigeria polluted by oil drilling.