Project MUSE (Mentoring Underrepresented Students through
Experiments) with Alessandra Cassar at the University of
San Francisco
Our project aims to increase the number of women entering
the Economics profession via research-based mentoring using
methods in Experimental Economics. This program selects
several students at USF and Michigan to participate in a
semester-long mentoring program. The program involves
students in hands-on laboratory research using methods in
Experimental Economics, culminating in a workshop at which
the students will meet other students in the project,
network with leading females in the field, and present
their research projects. Our aim is take positive action to
increase the number of women in Economics.
The first undergraduate mentored through this program at
Michigan is Noura Hamid. Noura is starting graduate school
at Columbia University in the Quantitative Methods in the
Social Sciences (QMSS) program. She graduated from the
University of Michigan with a B.A. in Economics and
minors in both German and AAPTIS (Arab, Armenian,
Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies). Following
graduation, she completed a Survey Research Center
internship at ISR and her research with Frank Stafford
was featured internationally (see story here). Good luck, Noura!
