Profile

Professor

Dr. Loucks joined the Department of Economics within the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University in 1989. She teaches principles and intermediate macroeconomics and money and banking. Her areas of interest in research are banking regulation, the influence of political action committees on the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, early childhood education, and non-profits. She has a long history of service to the College of Business and Economics, the University, and the community including time spent on committees such as the Volunteer Services Advisory Board, the Service Learning Advisory Board, the Faculty Senate, the Women's Center Advisory Board, the Distinguished Lecture Series Committee, the Intercollegiate Advisory Committee, and the College of Business and Economics Scholarship Committee. Within the community, she serves on the Board of Directors for Life's Kitchen and Idaho Voices for Children and on the Advisory Board for Idaho Kids Count.