LSBE RESEARCH BUREAU

STAFF
Vickie Almquist-Minko joined the School of Business in September 2000. She holds an A.A.S. Degree in Supervisory Management with emphasis on customer service, project management and principals of team work, and accounting. She works as Executive Administrative Specialist in the Reserach Bureau and the Technology Program. She is a 2004-2005 member of the Technology Committee, and was a 2001-2004 C.A.R.E. Commmittee member. She was presented the "Above and Beyond" Award by her colleagues in Spring 2004.


Jim Skurla is the Acting Director of the UMD Labovitz School of Business and Economics Bureau of Business and Economic Research. He is also a Business Development Specialist at the UMD Center for Economic Development.

Jim has over 20 years of experinece in regional economic research and busienss development. He has an M.A. Degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a B. A. Degree in Economics from the University of Minnesota Duluth.

He is a Certified Financial Economic Developer by the National Development Council, and a 1995 graduate of Leadership Duluth.
   
  Born and raised in Duluth, Jean Jacobson works in LSBE as publications editor and in the Research Bureau as editor, project managet, student supervisor, and technical support. Jean holds the M.A. in English and M.Ed. from Stanford University, and enjoys her current status as A.B.D. in English (specializing in issues of electronic text) in the Ph.D. program at the U of MN TC. In her simultaneous career as a poet, Jean's work has appeared in the New Yorker and New Republic magazines and she has received the Bush Artist Fellowship and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant. Jean has worked in LSBE since the early eighties. As a native to the region she says she continues to believe very much in the outreach mission of the SBE through the Bureau, and to take delight in regional economic and demographic data which she says increases her "sense of place."

 

 

 

 

 

 

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