Economics Day 2011

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Special Event
Penn Museum

3260 South St.
Egyptian Room

Philadelphia, PA
19104

United States

Economics Day is our annual celebration to recognize outstanding achievements by undergraduate and graduate students and exemplary teaching by economics faculty.

 

Merlo

Department Chair Antonio Merlo introduces the program.

Akcigit

Professor Ufuk Akcigit receives the Kravis Prize for Distinctive Undergraduate Teaching for tenure-track faculty.

Sieg

Professor Holger Sieg (left) receives the Kravis Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching for tenure faculty.

Lazarus

Eben Lazarus accepts the Lawrence R. Klein Prize for Outstanding Research by an undergraduate.

Tee

Joel Tee accepts the Simon Kuznets Fellowship Award in Economics (Shepard Berg shared the prize but was unable to attend.)

Rickles

Lisa Rickles won the Bernard Shanbaum Prize for Excellence in Economics.

Itenberg

Olga Itenberg is this year's recipient of the Edwin Mansfield Teaching Prize.

Kang

Karam Kang accepts the Maloof Family Dissertation Fellowship in Economics.

yang

Zhao Yang won the Joel Popkin Graduate Student Teaching Prize in Economics.

Dilme

Francesc Dilme won this year's Sidney Weintraub Memorial Fellowship in Economics. Fei Li (not pictured) also won.

Mitman

Kurt Mitman won the Hiram C. Haney Fellowship Award in Economics.

Zehao Hu and Selman Erol accept the Lawrence Robbins Prize from Professor Dirk Krueger.

Weng

Xi Weng accepts this year's David Cass/Beth Hayes Prize.

Carey

Frances Carey announces the winners of the William Polk Carey Prize for the Outstanding Economics Dissertation in 2010.

Fu

Chao Fun (one of the winners of the Carey Prize) pictured with Professor Dirk Krueger. Antonio Penta (the other winner of the prize) was unable to attend.