Tushi Baul is a fifth-year PhD student studying experimental economics under Professor Tanya Rosenblat, with a research focus in experimental labor markets. This summer she'll attend an interdisciplinary course in adaptive economic dynamics at the Computable Experimental Economics Laboratory (CEEL), University of Trento, Italy. The course will focus on the evolution of social preferences.

What are your objectives for the course? I have been interested in the impact of different cultures on economic outcomes. This opportunity might give me an insight about how different cultures create different social preferences. It might also introduce me to new research areas.What's exciting or interesting to you about this opportunity? I am keen in this program as it is interdisciplinary. It will help me to understand the perspectives of sociologists, psychologists, and biologists. Also interaction with fellow graduate students always helps.

Learn more about CEEL at: http://www-ceel.economia.unitn.it/summer_school/twelfth/index.html. To highlight the summer activities of a particular grad students contact ksenty@iastate.edu.