NEWS

[July 2024]: Congratulations to Azat Nurmukhametov for successfully passing his Ph.D. defense! Azat will join St. Lawrence University as a visiting Assistant Professor.

[July 2024]: Dr. Ge was featured in +Policy Fellow Research Highlight.

[June 2024]: Dr. Ge was a keynote speaker at Workshop on New Productive Forces and High-Standard Opening Up.

[May 2024]: Thanks to the College of Science Dean's Discovery Fund for supporting our project on "Changes in US Semiconductor Production in the Context of Global Value Chain Transformation." This is a joint project with Dr. Lingjia Liu, Dr. Le Wang, and Dr. Cindy Yi.

[May 2024]: Congratulations to Yang Cheng for successfully passing her Ph.D. defense! Yang will join University of Wisconsin at Madison as a research scientist.

[May 2024]: Congratulations to Dr. Ge for the Department of Economics 2024 Outstanding Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award.

[May 2024]: Center for Future Work Places and Practices announced new faculty and student summer grants.

[April 2024]: Thanks to the 4-VA Collaborative Research Grant for funding our project on "Artificial Intelligence, Job Replacement, and Mental Health ." This is a joint project with Dr. Jian Ni, Dr. Pearl Chiu, Dr. Meng Zhu and Dr. Amalia Miller.

[March 2024]: Dr. Ge co-organized the 2024 CES North America Conference.

[March 2024]: Center for Future Work Places and Practices hosted NSF's Alan Tomkins for a talk on "Applying for NSF Funding: An Overview from the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences."

[March 2024]: Dr. Ge published an article in The Roanoke Times on the origin of cooperation. [VT Science Corner: The Groundwork of cooperation]

[March 2024]: Dr. Ge started to serve as an Associate Editor for Journal of Labor Economics.

[January 2024]: Dr. Ge chaired a session on "Ageing and Demographic Transition in China" at 2024 ASSA Annual Meeting.

[November 2023]: Center for Future Work Places and Practices hosted Human-Centered Future of Work Symposium.[VT news]

[September 2023]: Dr. Ge was elected to be the vice President of the Chinese Economists Society.

[July 2023]: Congratulations to Nazanin Sedaghatkish for successfully passing her Ph.D. defense! Nazanin will join Sam Houston State University as an Assistant Professor.

[July 2023]: Dr. Ge gave the Boya Lecture at Liaoning University. [LNU news]

[April 2023]: Dr. Ge was invited to be a plenary speaker at the 2023 CES North America Conference.

[March 2023]: Dr. Ge visited the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as an economic consultant.

[January 2023]: Dr. Ge became the inaugural Director of Virginia Tech's Center for Future Work Places and Practices. [VT news]

[June 2022]: Dr. Ge was invited to give a lecture at the Summer School on Diversity and Inclusion at Warwick Business School.

[April 2022]: Congratulations to Muchin Bazan for successfully passing her Ph.D. defense! Muchin will join the Centers for Diserse Control and Prevention as a Postdoc scholar.

[April 2022]: Congratulations to Fiona Jiang for successfully passing her Ph.D. defense! Fiona will join Activision Blizzard as a data scientist.

[September 2021]: Dr. Ge was invited to give a keynote at the Chinese Labor Economists Forum.

[September 2021]: Dr. Ge gave a lecture for the Honors College's interdisciplinary exploration course, The Future of Work. [VT news]

[June 2021]: Congratulations to Dr. Ge for promoting to professor! Dr. Ge will also serve as the Associate Head of the Department of Economics.

[April 2021]: Congratulations to Shan Jin for successfully passing her Ph.D. defense! Shan will join Nanjing Audit University as an Assistant Professor.

[January 2021]: Dr. Ge started to serve as a co-Editor for China Economic Review.

[January 2021]: Thanks to China's NSF for funding our project on "The New Regularities of Labor Mobility and its Socio-economic Impacts in China under the Shocks of Emerging New Technology and Consumer Demand Differentiation." This is a joint project with Dr. Junsen Zhang and other colleagues.

[June 2020]: Dr. Ge started to serve as an Associate Editor for China Economic Review.

[May 2020]: Thanks to the 4-VA Collaborative Research Grant for funding our project on "Changes in the Effects of College Selectivity on Educational, Labor Market and Family Outcomes." This is a joint project with Dr. Amalia Miller and Dr. Elliott Isaac.

[February 2020]: Dr. Ge became a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization.

[November 2019]: Congratulations to Hillary Huang for successfully passing her Ph.D. defense! Hillary will join PNC Bank as a senior analyst.

[November 2019]: Dr. Ge was an invited speaker at 2019 Beijing Forum.

[August 2019]: Dr. Ge started to serve as a guest editor for Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

[June 2019]: Congratulations to Zhen Cheng for successfully passing his Ph.D. defense!

[June 2019]: Dr. Ge gave a public lecture at Jinan University Birmingham Join Institute.

[May 2019]: Dr. Ge co-organized a workshop on "Technical Change, US-China Trade and Labor Market Outcomes."

[May 2019]: Thanks to ISCE for a +Policy Research Supplement Grant. [VT news]

[February 2019]: Congratulations to Yanliang Yang for successfully passing her Ph.D. defense! Yanliang will join Google as a data scientist.

[December 2018]: Dr. Ge's study on elite schools (joint with Dr. Elliott Isaac and Dr. Amalia Miller) was covered by MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Washington Post , Bloomberg, Inside Higher Education, CNBC, CBS, Washington Post, Business Insider, Inside Higher Education.

[December 2018]: Dr. Ge was invited to be a plenary speaker at the 10th International Symposium on Human Capital and Labor Markets.

[September 2018]: Thanks to the NSF for funding our project on "FW-HTF: Whole-body Exoskeletons for Advanced Vocational Enhancement (WEAVE)." This is a joint project with Dr. Divya Srinivasan, Dr. Maury Nussbaum, Dr. Alexander Leonessa, and Dr. Nathan Lau. [VT news]

[April 2018]: Congratulations to Joey Yu Zhou for successfully passing his Ph.D. defense! Joey will join Jinan University as an Assistant Professor.

[January 2018]: Thanks to the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for a Pathways Development and Delivery Grant Award.