The 2015 MSU Symposium on Multicultural Psychology will focus on Multicultural Teams: Advancing Team Effectiveness in a Globalized World. This conference is part of the biennial MSU Symposium on Multicultural Psychology at Michigan State University. The conference will be held October 9-10, 2015 at the Marriott Hotel, East (across from Michigan State University campus). The conference is hosted by the Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research (CMPR) in the Department of Psychology (http://psychology.msu.edu/cmpr/).

Nicholas Ryan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University. He has been a Cowles Foundation Fellow at Yale University (2014-15) and a Prize Fellow in Economics at Harvard University from 2012-2014. He received a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 and a BA in Economics summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. He previously worked as a Research Associate in the Capital Markets group at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC. Nick studies energy markets and environmental regulation in developing countries. Energy use enables high standards of living but rapid, energy-intensive growth has caused many environmental problems in turn. Nicks research measures how energy use and pollution emissions respond to regulation and market incentives. His work includes empirical studies of the effect of power grid capacity on electricity prices, how firms make decisions about energy-efficiency and how environmental regulation can be designed to best abate pollution at low social cost.