Background
Mark Schneider, University of Connecticut (UCONN) School of Business MARK SCHNEIDER, is a Ph.D. candidate in the at the University of Connecticut (UCONN) School of Business. In 2004 Mark was named one of 20 high school students in the nation named to USA Today's Academic First TeamIn the summer of 2007, he worked as a the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology research summer intern developing “Knowledge Networks” . Mark graduated from Yale University where he received the Yale College David Everett Chantler award in May, which is given to the graduating senior exhibiting strength of character and high moral purpose. Mark has been acknowledged as a research assistant for Robert Shiller’s and George Akerlof’s book “Animal Spirits: How human psychology drives the economy and why it matters for global capitalism”. At UCONN Mark has been actively investigating equilibrium and risk aversion in auction markets, role of asymmetric information on market stability, interaction between affective and cognitive processes in decision making, and the implications of “skewness” preferences in choices between lotteries. MARK SCHNEIDER, Yale 08, received the Yale College David Everett Chantler award in May, which is given to the graduating senior exhibiting strength of character and high moral purpose. In 2003 he and his younger brother placed first in the Siemens-Westinghouse Math Science and Technology competition. In 2004 he was one of 20 high school students in the nation named to USA Today's Academic First Team. In 2006, he received a scholarship in science from the Department of Homeland Security.
Mark has received awards for both his writing and his artwork. His political satire about the Harding Administration received an honorable mention from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and placed at the national level in Sondheim's young playwrights competition. Mark's art has been exhibited in the Cannon Tunnel, Washington, DC, The Hartford State Capitol, The Wadsworth Athenaeum, and the Slifka Center at Yale.
In his spare time, Mark enjoys writing and illustrating children's books, under the pen-name "Father Rime." He is interested in an academic career in the areas of applied economics, behavioral economics, and decision analysis.
