Departmental Awards

Current Graduate Awards

Our department offers multiple streams of funding through the form of stipends, fellowships, employment and awards. Here are a few examples of recent departmental awards in the Economics PhD program.

• Department Research Awards 
  (Twice Per Year)
• 2024 - Kathya Tapia, Francisco Pizzi, Inés Badin, Jinho Kim, Remy Beauregard, Rita Samudio, Carlos Brito, Christina Sun, Kalyani Chaudhuri, Taitana Hiller
  
  2023 - Tina Zhang, Eunju Lee, Stephen Paolillo, Kalyani Chaudhuri, Shisham Adhikari, Seojung Oh, Carlos Brito, Francisco Pizzi, Inés Badin, Changhyun Lee, Jinho Kim, Tatiana Hiller, Jeff Cheung
• Department Travel Awards
  (Twice Per Year)
• 2024 - Seojung Oh, CJ Lee, Sean Kim, Anran Liu, Jessica Lyu, Yongyeon Oh, Jinho Kim, Alessandro Caiumi, Remy Beauregard, Beau Bressler, Rebecca Brough, Carlos Brito, Christina Sun, Kalyani Chaudhuri, Tatiana Hiller
  
  2023 - Sebastian Amador, Kathya Tapia, Joaquin Paleo, Reem Zaiour, Justin Ku, Seungjin Baek, Christina Sun, Jay Jeong, Alaa Abdelfattah, Jinyoung Seo, Carlos Brito, Tatiana Hiller, Yongyeon Oh, Shisham Adhikari, Tina Zhang, Eunju Lee, Stephen Paolillo, Kalyani Chaudhuri, Jeff Cheung
• Best First Year Award 
  (Once Per Year)
• 2024 - Yungu Cho 
  2023 - Divyanshu Jain
  2021 - Hyunseo Park
  2020 - Yongyeon Oh
  2019 - Eunju Lee and Jinyoung Seo
  2018 - Yumeng Gu
• Outstanding TA 
  (Once Per Year)
• 2022 - Eunju Lee
  2021 - Sion An, Beau Bressler, Carlos Brito, Madeleine Ho, Colter Hoffman, Shawn Qian, Robert Reaser, Yuan Tuo
  2020 - Hyok Jung Kim, Monica Rodriguez Guevara
  2019 - Sukjoon Lee
  2018 - Tamoghna Halder
• Western Power Trading Forum
  (Once Per Year)
• 2023  - Jessica Lyu
• Bacon Family Fellowship
  (Every Two Years)
• 2020 - Madeleine Ho & Shawn Qian
  2018 - Deokjae Jeong & Stephen Paolillo