Associate Professor of Economics Kristina Acri has been awarded the Michael Szenberg Prize for an article she co-authored in The American Economist. The award-winning article, “Do Restrictions Beget Responsibility? The Case of U.S. Abortion Legislation,” was co-authored with Associate Professor of Economics Amanda Felkey of Lake Forest College. Acri and Felkey will be honored at a reception in January for their work.

Acri also was quoted by National Public Radio in a piece called “Drugmakers Play the Patent Game to Lock in Prices, Block Competitors,” which aired Sept. 28. Acri, an economist and international intellectual property expert who joined the CC faculty in 2007, was named a Thomas Edison Innovation Fellow for 2016-17 by the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property at the George Mason University School of Law.