RICHARD FOWLES portrait
  • Chair, Graduate Program in Statistics, Graduate Program in Statistics
  • Director, Economic Evaluation Unit, Economics Department
  • Professor, Economics Department
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Professional Service

  • Transportation and Public Utilities Group (AEA). Board of directors. 01/01/2019 - present
  • National Science Foundation . Referee. Decision & Management Science. 09/01/2011 - 01/15/2012
  • American Statistical Association. Role: Member. Chairs of Programs in Statistics. 07/01/2010 - 07/01/2013
  • National Science Foundation. Reviewer. 06/01/2010 - 01/01/2011

Community Partnership

  • Utah State Office of Education. Economic Effects of Adult Education on Earnings & Employment in Utah. 09/15/2011 - 09/15/2013
  • Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice. 09/01/2011 - 05/05/2016
  • Utah Association for Adult, Community, and Continuing Education. 05/01/2005 - 01/01/2011
  • Utah Office of Education. 06/10/2000 - 12/15/2016

Honors & Awards

  • Distinguished Member Award. Transportation and Public Utilities Group (American Economic Association), 01/2021
  • President. Transportation and Public Utilities Group, American Economic Association., 01/01/2018
  • President Elect for this international research group (part of the American Economic Association). Transportation and Public Utilities Group , 01/05/2017
  • Education Service Award, Utah Association of Adult, Community, and Continuing Education. For work relating to prison education. UAACCE, 10/15/2010
  • University Professorship. University of Utah, 09/01/1996
  • Superior Teaching Award. University of Utah, 05/01/1993
  • Professor of the Year. Westminster College, 06/01/1989

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