LEWISTON – A Bates College economics professor will give a lecture on teaching in China at 4:30 p.m Friday, Feb. 1, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

Margaret Maurer-Fazio’s talk, “China: A Journey of Teaching and Scholarship,” will inaugurate her tenure in the newly established Betty Doran Stangle Professorship in Applied Economics.

A reception will follow in the Chase Hall Gallery. The free event is open to the public.

The talk will cover what Maurer-Fazio describes as the “exciting synergies between teaching in China, taking students to China, and my research agenda.”

A member of the Bates economics faculty since 1994, Maurer-Fazio studies the dramatic impact of the liberalization of China’s economy on that nation’s labor markets.