Econ Day 2025
Economics Day is our annual celebration to recognize outstanding achievements by undergraduate and graduate students and exemplary teaching by economics faculty. It is made possible by the generosity of the Department of Economics with the generous support of the W. P. Carey Foundation Inc.
Undergraduate Awards
• Lawrence R. Klein Prize for Outstanding Research by an Undergraduate awarded to Pavel Castillo Mendiola and Sneha Parthasarthy
• Simon Kuznets Fellowship Award in Economics awarded to Naseeb Andar, Nikhil Kumar and Tomas Popowsky
• Bernard Shanbaum Prize for Excellence in Economics awarded to Thomas Li and Ananya Varshneya
Graduate Awards
• The Maloof Family Dissertation Fellowship in Economics awarded to Alfonso Maselli
• Joel Popkin Graduate Student Teaching Prize in Economics awarded to Alexander Sawyer
• Paul Taubman Memorial Prize for Empirical Economics Research awarded to Felipe Kup Barbieri de Matos and Ornella Darova
• Hiram C. Haney Fellowship Award in Economics awarded to Keunsang Song
• Edwin Mansfield Teaching Prize awarded to Haosi Shen
• William Polk Carey Prize for the Outstanding Economics Dissertation in 2024 was awarded to Joao Ritto
• David Cass/Beth Hayes Fellowship in Economics was awarded to Cesar Urquizo Ubillus
• Robert and Anita Summers Graduate Research Award was awarded to Young Ahn and Natacha Spitzer
• Lawrence Robbins Prize was awarded to Yifan Sun and Zhiheng You
• Microeconomics Best Performance: awarded to Edicson Luna Roman
• Macroeconomics Best Performance: awarded to Mariia Elkina
• Econometrics Best Performance: awarded to Mahmut Eymen Akin
Faculty Teaching Awards
• Irving B. Kravis Certificate for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching awarded to Professors Aislinn Bohren tenured, Camilo Castillo tenure track.
