Dr. Prasant Mohapatra, the University of California, Davis, Dean of Graduate Studies, placed a hood on James Archsmith, conferring his PhD at recent commencement ceremonies.
Archsmith, son of Belleville residents Richard and Phyllis Smith, completed a PhD in Economics at the University of California, Davis, after submitting his dissertation, “Impacts of Regulation and Benefits of Environmental Quality.”
He will be joining the faculty in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park, this fall.