Thanks to our generous donors the Department of Economics is able to give out several scholarships and awards each year to deserving undergraduate and graduate students.
Here is a list of our 2021-2022 award recipients:
Graduate Student Awards
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Yaming Cao has received a fellowship from the William Green Memorial Fund which provides a semester free of teaching duties next academic year. The fellowship is awarded to students whose work contributes to the interests of working people and their families. William Green was an early, long-standing President of the American Federation of Labor (the AFL part of today’s AFL-CIO) and a prominent advisor to President Roosevelt.
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Yanli Lin has received the G.S. Maddala Prize in Econometrics. The Maddala prize was established in 1999 to honor Dr. Maddala’s work in the field of econometrics and his teaching and mentoring of graduate students. The fund recognizes graduate students for excellence in quantitative research using econometrics.
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Xuechao Qian has received the Tom Kniesner and Debbie Freund Award, which provides awards to graduate students in Econometrics or Health Economics.
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Adnan Mahmood, Hyoeun Park, and Jason Tayawa have each received Burton-Abrams Dissertation in Economics Endowed Grant. The Burton Abrams grant is distributed annually to students who are working on a dissertation related to money and banking, international economics, public choice/public finance, or any topic with public policy implications.
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Rohan Shah has received the Professor J. Graham Smith Memorial Prize. The prize is awarded to a student to support their research in any aspect of applied economics, with special consideration given to students who have demonstrated knowledge of the United Kingdom or the British Commonwealth history or culture.
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Sungmin Park and Jason Tayawa have received the Larry and Shelia Kantor award in recognition of their service to the graduate student population in the department.
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Matt D'Urso, Daniel Lopez-Gomez, and Alan Lujan have received Graduate Associate Teaching Awards for their outstanding work as independent instructors.
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Michael Carter, Matt D’Urso, and Jeyoung Moon all received Departmental Citations for Excellence in Teaching, for their high-quality work as GTAs.
Undergraduate Student Awards
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Luke Ciminillo Delamotte, Riley Dean, Carlee Keller, Noah Porschart, and Greta Warmbier all received the Economics Undergraduate Scholarship, which acknowledges the top-performing Undergraduate Economics majors.
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Vincent Pancini received the Gledhill Prize in Applied Economics, which is awarded to the best paper in applied economics by an undergraduate Economics major. The fund was established in 2013 with a generous gift from alumnus and Economics Advisory Board member, Scott Gledhill.
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Thomas Chahine and Connor Crane each received an award from the Harold A. Black Endowed Scholarship Fund for Economics which acknowledges Undergraduate Economics Majors who have overcome substantial educational or economic obstacles and have potential for graduate work. This fund was established in 2018 through the generous gift from alumnus Harold A. Black.
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Matthew Devis and Wyatt Reynolds received The Keith and Linda Monda Scholarship Fund scholarships, which awards undergraduate Economics majors enrolled in the Honors Program and demonstrate financial need. The fund was established in 2009 through a generous gift from alumnus Keith Monda and his wife, Linda.
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Kyle Matticks, Longtao Shao, and Yifan Sun received The Michael O’Shaughnessy Endowed Fund in Economics awards, which acknowledges undergraduate Economics majors who are high potential business-minded students. The fund was established in 2017 through a generous gift from alumnus Michael O’Shaughnessy.
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Aaron Cullman and Madison Malensky each received The Tom Kniesner and Debbie Freund Fund for Student Support award for first-generation students with demonstrated financial need. This fund was established in 2018 through the generous gift from alumnus and Economics Advisory Board member, Tom Kniesner, and his wife, Deborah Freund, also a distinguished health economist.
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The William Green Memorial Fund scholarships recipients were Lincoln Luzar and Patrick Seroogy. The fund acknowledges undergraduate Economics majors with backgrounds, studies, or career interests that are relevant to working people.
