Alison Del Rossi was a standout in both scholarship and athletics as a student, and she still excels at both.  An associate professor of economics at St. Lawrence, the collegiate track star is a member of the University’s women’s faculty/staff hockey group.

Del Rossi earned her doctorate at Penn in 1993 after graduating from the University of Delaware in 1986. Before coming to St. Lawrence in 1999, she taught at the University of Wyoming and worked for the Council of Economic Advisors. Her fields of specialization are public finance, law and economics (she teaches a course by that name) and labor economics.

She has published or co-published on pork-barrel spending, the economic impact of government regulation of smoking and the impact on income of double-majoring in college. In the latter paper, published in Economics of Education Review, August 2008, one thing she and her co-author conclude is that “It always pays to add an engineering major to another major,” as is the option through St. Lawrence’s 3+2 program with five engineering schools.

Del Rossi has often worked one-on-one with students.  She has mentored several University Fellows, one being Kwabena Osei-Kusi '05 of Accra, Ghana, in 2003; his topic was “The Burakumin Cycle: A Case of Market Failure." Chris Yoshida ’00, a vice president in fixed income at Morgan Stanley in London, England, says his economics courses with Professor Del Rossi helped him to find a “realistic approach” to Wall Street and theoretical economics.

Del Rossi was recently inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at the University of Delaware. She was honored for her achievements in indoor and outdoor track, including being "the only person in UD athletics history to earn first-team CoSIDA Academic All-American honors twice and one of just seven to be awarded the prestigious NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship."