Four second-year graduate students were honored for their first-year work during this year's New Student Reception on September 26, 2012.
Chunzan Wu won the Lawrence Robbins Prize, awarded to the student judged to be the best in the first year class.
Juan Hernandez received the Certificate of Distinction for the Best Performance in Microeconomics in the first year. Kristin Shaw received the Certificate of Distinction for the Best Performance in Macroeconomics in the first year. Yu (Laura) Liu received the Certificate of Distinction for the Best Performance in Econometrics in the first year.
The reception was hosted by the Graduate Economics Society.