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Student Awards

Economics Prizes

We award the David and Lelia Farr Prizes for Excellence in Economics and Excellence in Mathematical Economics, the Claire and Dan Hammond Economics Award for Leadership and Service, the Michael Lawlor Macroeconomics Prize and the John C. Moorhouse awards go to outstanding students of the graduating class during Commencement weekend each spring. The Deacon Econ Prize is also awarded to the students who obtain the highest scores on the Department of Economics exit assessments in Economics and Mathematical Economics. The winners are listed below.

DAVID AND LELIA FARR PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN ECONOMICS

  1. Millet Ding
  2. Annie Ma
  3. Judy Huang
  4. Gina A. Beyer
  5. Haonen Miao
  6. James A. Ridgeway
  7. Camille A. Wixon
  8. Lillian R. Gaeto
  9. Erich M. Denk
  10. Jon Michael Derewicz
  11. Sam Sherman
  12. Jordan T. Garside
  13. Janna Raley & Amanda Satterwhite
  14. Brett Findlay
  15. Joshua Daniel Binney
  16. Kara A. Dickstein & Monica Petrescu
  17. David J. Poplaski
  18. Robin E. Schroeder
  19. Elizabeth B. Stulting
  20. Erin M. Moseley
  21. Anne G. Bersagel

DAVID AND LELIA FARR PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS

  1. James Bender
  2. Sofia Scordley
  3. Dennis Shi
  4. Haosen He
  5. Andrew J. Logan
  6. Robert D Michele
  7. Jiayi “Eileen” Zhang
  8. Shazia E. L. Siddiqui
  9. Parker B. Harris
  10. Adrian Wyse Martino
  11. Daniel Schwindt
  12. Erik F. Nelson
  1. Ryan Stevens

DEACON ECON PRIZE

The Deac Econ Prize is awarded to the student who scores the highest on the Economics Department’s exit assessment.

  1. Andy Shen (ECN) and James Bender (MEC)
  2. James Day (ECN) and Aaron King (ECN), Scott Elmshaeuser (MEC) and Connor Donigian (MEC)
  3. Braden Strackman (ECN) and Andrew Keller (MTH ECN)
  4. Ben Raiford (ECN) and Kina Huang (MTH ECN)
  5. Grant Alexander (ECN) and Andy Jiang (MTH ECN)
  6. Kenny Xiao (ECN) and Robert D. Michele (MTH ECN)
  7. Yiwen Tang (ECN) and Jessica Wu (MTH ECN)
  8. Stephen Shengcheng Chen
  9. Zach Gould
  10. Michael Cooper and Zachary Missan
  11. Meghan Greene
  12. Mark T. Seres 
  13. Craig Eisen 
  14. Sang-Hyuk Kwon

THE CLAIRE AND DAN HAMMOND ECONOMICS AWARD

  1. Steven Cayea
  2. Cameron Blair
  3. Angela Waszkiewicz
  4. Jadyn H. Ives
  5. Andrew J. Logan

THE MICHAEL LAWLOR MACROECONOMICS PRIZE

  1. Ana Bilbao
  2. Nick Zuga
  3. Braden Strackman
  4. Robert Farnham V
  5. Andrew J. Logan

THE JOHN C. MOORHOUSE PAPER PRIZE

  1. Caliway Buchanan
  2. Aman Khemlani
  3. Braden Strackman