Economics Minor

Adeel Faheem holds a Ph.D. in economics from Kansas State University. His research focuses on understanding the issues of anticompetitive behavior of firms in highly concentrated markets using firm-level data. In particular, he studies mergers in the beer industry and the welfare implications of business practices like vertical price restraints.

Dennis A. Kaufman, Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics, has been teaching economics at UW-Parkside since 1988. He has been nominated for the Stella C. Gray Teaching Excellence Award numerous times and received the award in 2010. Prof. Kaufman’s primary field is microeconomics and he has published articles in refereed professional journals on economics pedagogy, public economics, real estate economics, and environmental economics. He has been involved in several community-based learning projects, including investigating the economic impacts of brownfields, the Racine Zoo, and Lake Michigan on residential property values. Furthermore, he has collaborated in the development of a number of web-based interactive economic graphs and tutorials for online economics courses and programs. He enjoys photography, woodworking, traveling, visiting U.S. national parks, playing bass guitar, and restoring the native prairie and growing black walnut trees on a small family farm in eastern Kansas.

Dr Li is a professor of Geosciences in the Geosciences Department. He served as the Chairperson of the department from 2009 to 2021. He earned his PhD in geology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr Li’s speciality is in Earth materials and environmental application. His current research includes developing materials for contaminant removal from water. The most important projects conducted by Dr Li were evaluation of chromium and perchloroethylene removal using surfactant modified zeolite and zero-valent iron at a pilot-scale; Using ionic liquid modified zeolite as a permeable reactive wall to limit arsenic contamination of a freshwater lake at a pilot-scale; Assessment of carbon dioxide sequestrations in an abandoned oil reservoir; Interactions of Earth materials with pharmaceuticals and personal care products; Interactions of dyestuffs with Earth materials and their removal from water. He has published more than 220 peer-reviewed journal articles. Of the more than 200 are from UW- Parkside. He engaged undergraduate students for research-related activities from Geosciences, Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Studies and as co-authors, many of these students published peer-reviewed journal articles since 1999. He is a guest editor for several journals. He earned UWP CRCA Award twice in 2001 and 2011. Teaching-wise, he taught many Geoscience course with practical applications such as Minerals and Rocks, Field Methods in Geology, Environmental Geology, Introduction to Geochemistry, Aqueous and Contaminant Geochemistry, etc., in addition to fundamental courses related to Geosciences, Environmental Studies, and Chemistry