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		December 2008
		Nereus Partners in the top five for Economics The four UK Nereus partners have been rated in the top five for Economics in the Research Assessment Exercise results published today. LSE came top with UCL 2nd, Oxford 3rd and Warwick 5th. The RAE is a UK-wide research ranking excercise which takes place every six years or so.
		November 2008
		Nereus's NEEO Project at its half-way mark NEEO will meet with EU officials in Luxembourg in early December to discuss NEEO's progress. See the NEEO website for more information.
		October 2008
		Nereus welcomes first US member The Columbia University announces decision to join the Nereus consortium. This will be the consortium's first member from America and brings the number of partners to 23.
		Nereus celebrates 20th Meeting The Nereus consortium celebrated it's 20th meeting at UCL (University College London) on Friday 5 September 2008. Nereus Chair Jean Sykes, LSE and NEEO Project Manager Vanessa Proudman, Tilburg University celebrate milestones together in London.
		March 2008
		Nereus to exhibit at ESPE Conference Nereus are to exhibit at the XXII Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) 19-21 June 2008. The European Society for Population Economics was founded in 1986 and was created in order to facilitate communication and exchange between researchers in different European countries, as well as with scientists from other parts of the world. Equal emphasis is given to theoretical and applied research focusing on the role played by human capital and demographic variables in economics. For more information about ESPE please click here.

		February 2008
		Nereus partners ranked in world Top 200 academic repositories Three Nereus partners have been ranked in the Top 200 academic repositories world rankings conducted by the Cybermetrics Lab which have recently been published. Erasmus University Rotterdam's repository was ranked 46th, University College London 75th and Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration 167th. To view all the rankings, click here. To view the methodology that was used click here. The Cybermetrics Lab aim to update the rankings every 6 months.

		January 2008
		LSE Economists Online participants win excellence awards in global economic affairs Dr Stephen Redding, programme director of the globalisation programme at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), and Silvana Tenreyro, lecturer in economics in the Department of Economics, LSE, have been selected as two of the winners of the 2008 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The aim of the award is to build a community of the brightest young researchers in the area of global economic affairs. The researchers are given intellectual, financial, and administrative support to pursue focused programmes of research in designated areas. Dr Stephen Redding is currently director of the globalisation programme at the Centre for Economic Performance and a reader in the Economics Department, LSE, and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Prior to joining LSE, he worked as a research economist at the Bank of England on the relationship between international openness and economic growth. He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize Fellowship during 2001-04 for his research on international trade and economic growth. Silvana Tenreyro has been at LSE since 2004, before which she worked as an economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. She is currently a research associate in the macro programme at the CEP and a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. Her work on global affairs include 'Technological Diversification,' with Miklos Koren (CEP discussion paper 0824), 'The Timing of Monetary Policy Shocks' with G. Olivei (American Economic Review, 2007) and 'Volatility and Development,' with M. Koren (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007). She said: 'I am very grateful for the award.' Danny Quah, head of the Economics Department and professor of economics said: 'Both these awards point to the tremendous contributions already made and yet to come still in these economists' exciting research on global economic affairs.' The award will be presented at the Kiel Institute in June 2008. For further information on the award, click here.