College of Arts and Sciences welcomes 27 new faculty members

This year, 27 new faculty have joined the College of Arts & Sciences, enriching 17 departments and programs with their excellence in an impressive range of topics, including moral psychology, gravitational waves, Black contemporary art and more.

The Department of Economics will be enhanced by three new faculty also addressing real-world challenges. Sulagna Dasgupta's interests lie in microeconomic theory, in particular mechanism design and information economics. She's currently researching how to design tests to evaluate people based on their knowledge - such as student exams and worker evaluations - when such knowledge must be verifiably demonstrated.

Economist Jacob Dorn focuses on industrial organization, health economics and econometrics. His main work leverages new data on healthcare contracts to understand the consequences of various aspects of the American healthcare system and formalizes what we can and cannot learn from this type of data.

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