NEWS RELEASE

July 7, 2003

Contact Michael Cinelli for information on the Mitchell gift announcement at 713/743-8155


John Antel, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
and Social Sciences at UH

John J. Antel is currently Professor of Economics and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston. Professor Antel received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972. In 1983 he received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. Before joining the University of Houston Economics Department in 1991, Dr. Antel worked as a labor and population studies consultant to the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California. Dr. Antel served as Economics Department Chair at the University of Houston from 1997 to 2002. He served on the University of Houston Academic Senate Executive Committee from 1999 to 2002. Professor Antel continues to teach and do research in labor economics, health economics, and applied statistics at the University of Houston


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