Scholarships and Awards

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 2022-2023 award recipients:

Graduate Student Awards

Taegon Yang 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.
Yichun Song 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.
Yanli Lin has received the Tom Kniesner and Debbie Freund Award, which provides awards to graduate students in Econometrics or Health Economics.
Kamyar Kamyar, Hyoeun Park, and Jing Feng have received the Larry and Shelia Kantor award in recognition of their service to the graduate student population in the department.

Nayul Kim has received the Professor J. Graham Smith Memorial Prize in Applied Economics. This prize was established in 2022 to pay tribute to a former alumnus of the Department of Economics at Ohio State University, Professor J. Graham Smith (1936-2018).

Undergraduate Student Awards

Camille Loyd and Zach Perkins received an award from the Chris and Angie Marshall Undergraduate Economics Fund, which acknowledges undergraduate students who are majoring in economics with preference given to students who graduated from a high school in Ohio, especially a high school from Newark, OH or Licking County, OH. The fund was established in February of 2022 with a generous gift from alumnus Robert C. Marshall and his wife Angela R. Marshall.

Matthew Devis and Cyann Lattimore received the Economics Undergraduate Scholarship, which acknowledges the top-performing Undergraduate Economics majors.

Ashley Cao 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.
Brandon Hernandez and Thomas Janesz 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.

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.

Nithin Chalavadi, and Rudra Patel 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.

Brock Wolfe 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.

The William Green Memorial Fund scholarships recipients were Matthew Devis and William Gilbert. The fund acknowledges undergraduate Economics majors with backgrounds, studies, or career interests that are relevant to working people.