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

DAVID AND LELIA FARR PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS

  1. Sasha Skinner
  2. James Bender
  3. Sofia Scordley
  4. Dennis Shi
  5. Haosen He
  6. Andrew J. Logan
  7. Robert D Michele
  8. Jiayi “Eileen” Zhang
  9. Shazia E. L. Siddiqui
  10. Parker B. Harris
  11. Adrian Wyse Martino
  12. Daniel Schwindt
  13. 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. Mason Burdyck (ECN) and Haoxuan (Mark) Sun (MEC)
  2. Andy Shen (ECN) and James Bender (MEC)
  3. James Day (ECN) and Aaron King (ECN), Scott Elmshaeuser (MEC) and Connor Donigian (MEC)
  4. Braden Strackman (ECN) and Andrew Keller (MTH ECN)
  5. Ben Raiford (ECN) and Kina Huang (MTH ECN)
  6. Grant Alexander (ECN) and Andy Jiang (MTH ECN)
  7. Kenny Xiao (ECN) and Robert D. Michele (MTH ECN)
  8. Yiwen Tang (ECN) and Jessica Wu (MTH ECN)
  9. Stephen Shengcheng Chen
  10. Zach Gould
  11. Michael Cooper and Zachary Missan
  12. Meghan Greene
  13. Mark T. Seres 
  14. Craig Eisen 
  15. Sang-Hyuk Kwon

THE CLAIRE AND DAN HAMMOND ECONOMICS AWARD

  1. Minxing (Mike) Liu
  2. Steven Cayea
  3. Cameron Blair
  4. Angela Waszkiewicz
  5. Jadyn H. Ives
  6. Andrew J. Logan

THE MICHAEL LAWLOR MACROECONOMICS PRIZE

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

THE JOHN C. MOORHOUSE PAPER PRIZE

  1. Kevin He
  2. Caliway Buchanan
  3. Aman Khemlani
  4. Braden Strackman