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After graduating from UC Davis, I went on to obtain a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1983. I taught for six years as an assistant professor at UC Irvine before moving to Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where I still teach. Being at a liberal arts college has allowed me to stretch beyond my formal area of expertise. I have done that extensively, working in areas as far-flung as sports psychology, political geography, communications theory, public health, economics pedagogy, as well as a bit of economics. 

I retired in 2015 and bear a title of Professor Emeritus for more than 7 years. It is a common belief that after many years of hard work, emeriti enjoy their well deserved rest, not burdened by any formal duties. It may be true in general, but not in my case. I have an impression that never in my life I worked as hard as now. During my retirement I have never stopped teaching.

I retired on July 1, 2019 and immediately started a long trip: seven countries in seven months. (I had needed to stay in Davis since 2012.) I visited the Simons Center (Stony Brook, NY), the Institute for Theoretical Physics (Sao Paulo, Brazil), IHES (Bures-sur-Yvette, France), Skolkovo (Moscow, Russia), MPIM (Bonn, Germany), a conference in Luxembourg, Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel), Weizmann Institute (Rehovot, Israel), and University of Warwick (UK).

Our colleague Donald C. Benson died on May 2, 2019, at age 91. Born on June 6, 1927, in Los Angeles, he studied at UCLA and later Stanford, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1954 under the guidance of Charles Loewner. After teaching at Princeton University and Carnegie Tech (now known as Carnegie Mellon University), he joined the UC Davis Department of Mathematics in 1957, retiring in 1983.