<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2021/ethan-mcgee.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>02/24/2021</pubDate><title>Recent Alumnus’s Thesis Published in Prestigious Academic Journal</title><description>Ethan McGee ’19 says his time at the University of New Haven prepared him for his position as a user experience designer at Dillard’s, which he loves, and laid the foundation for the publication of his economics capstone research project.</description><hide-description/><author>Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>February 24, 2021</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2021/ethan-and-kamal.jpg" alt="Kamal Upadhyaya, Ethan McGee, and Ethan’s father, Glenn McGee."/></image><image-caption>Kamal Upadhyaya, Ph.D. (left); Ethan McGee ’19 (center); and Ethan’s father, Glenn McGee, Ph.D., the University’s deputy provost.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2021</tag></tags></item>