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William Trumbull is Director of the Division of Economics and Finance in WVU’s College of Business and Economics. He received his PhD in economics in 1985 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research and teaching interests include comparative economic systems and the economics of transitional economies, as well as public economics, economic evaluation, and the economics of crime. He has several publications on economic evaluation and has conducted economic evaluations of criminal justice programs, health care technology, and environmental remediation. He has also published papers on the economics of crime, public choice, the economics of foreign aid, problems in transitional economies, and other topics. He was the recipient of the 1990 Raymond Vernon Award of the Association for Policy Analysis and Management for a paper on economic evaluation. In 1994, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Donetsk State Technical University in Ukraine in recognition of his work on regional issues in transitional economies. He is currently doing research on the potential for trade with Cuba. Each spring semester, he teaches a course on the economics of Cuba that includes a field trip to Cuba during the spring break. He has also led a student group to China and is developing a study-abroad course on the Czech Republic.