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AsiaNetwork-Freeman grants underwrite research in China by two seniors, faculty adviser

Nancy J. Ashmore
May 21, 2002

Xun Pomponio, an associate professor of economics, will travel to China this summer with junior Julie Stiehl, Eugene, Ore., and Matthew Wright, a senior from Newberg, Ore., to conduct a joint research project -- thanks to a $16,500 faculty-student research grant from the AsiaNetwork-Freeman Foundation. Stiehl, an economics and Asian studies major, will examine how the Chinese government is dealing with the bad debt created by lending money to state-owned enterprises. Wright, a history major, will investigate the transition of state-owned enterprises in China from government control to private ownership. Pomponio is an authority on international economics and regularly teaches an Interim abroad class on economic progress in China; she has been a member of the faculty since 1991.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.