University of Richmond economics professor is part of a NSF grant recipient team; funds enable development of a Web-based teaching portal

October 20, 2008

KimMarie McGoldrick, an economics professor at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business, is part of a research team that has received a $497,953 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop innovations in teaching college economics.

McGoldrick’s team will develop an economics pedagogic portal—a Web-based resource for instructing undergraduate economics students.

Awarded to North Carolina A&T State University, the grant will be administered  by McGoldrick; Scott P. Simkins, director of academy for teaching and learning at North Carolina A&T; Cathryn A. Manduca, director of the science education resource center at Carleton College; and Mark H. Maier, economics chair at Glendale Community College.

“The portal will make it easier for economists to find teaching innovations within and beyond their discipline, and provide them with the tools to begin integrating and assessing these innovations in their classrooms,” McGoldrick said.

McGoldrick has published more than 25 articles and numerous book chapters, and edited two books. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Oswego and her master’s and doctorate degrees from the State University of New York at Binghamton.