Read the article:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/augsburgecho.com\/2020\/12\/10\/report-of-u-s-economy-during-2020-pandemic\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Brianna Noland, a senior economics major, represented Augsburg\u00a0University in the Council of Undergraduate Research Posters on the Hill event in 2013. This non-partisan event, held each year at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C., showcases the research of a total of 60 undergraduate students (out of 800 applicants) from colleges and universities across the country.<\/p>\n Economics Professor Stella Hofrenning, who was Brianna\u2019s research advisor, said that the Council chose projects that represented outstanding examples of undergraduate research. Brianna\u2019s project, which was funded through the Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunities (URGO) program at Augsburg involved analyzing college student retention rates and the impact of student debt on those rates. For more information about undergraduate research see\u00a0Augsburg Undergraduate Research (URGO)<\/a>.<\/p>\n While at the Capitol, Noland and Hofrenning met with U.S. Senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota. Later in the day, Noland presented her poster to a large crowd of members of Congress, congressional staffers and other guests. For more information about the Council of Undergraduate Research see\u00a0U.S. Council on Undergraduate Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ECO 312 students publish their Economic analyses in the Augsurg echo Under the guidance of Economics Professor Dr. Tajibaeva, students in Intermediate Macroeconomics (ECO 312) published their research analyzing the impact of the pandemic on the U.S. economy. Students analyzed data, created charts, and wrote a final research report\u00a0applying economics theories to actual data.\u00a0What an …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40495"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40583,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40495\/revisions\/40583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Economics student Brianna Noland Presents at “Posters on the Hill”<\/h2>\n
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