• The Phi Betta Kappa Society announced the Elmaleh Prize for an Undergraduate Essay in the Social Sciences for 2022 and the winner is an Economics Major

  August 15, 2022

  The Phi Betta Kappa Society announced the Elmaleh Prize for an Undergraduate Essay in the Social Sciences 2022 and the Department of Economics is excited to announce that the prize was awarded to Ashmit Vyas who was an Economics Major

• The Phi Beta Kappa Society announced the thesis prize winners for 2022 and one of the three winners was an Economics major

  August 12, 2022

  The Phi Beta Kappa Society announced the three thesis prize winners for 2022 and the Economics Department is excited to announce that one of the winners was a Department of Economics major, Mira Potter-Schwartz

• Ethan Kallett, May 2022 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, with distinction in Economics, named a 2022 Yenching Scholar

  June 2, 2022

  Ethan Kallett, a May graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences with distinction in Economics, from Vienna, Virginia, has been named a 2022 Yenching Scholar.

• Sadie T. M. Alexander, Ph.D., J.D., University of Pennsylvania, the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in economics in the United States, was named posthumously as one of the American Economics Association Distinguished Fellows in 2022.

  April 28, 2022

  Sadie T.M. Alexander, the first African-American to earn a Ph.D.

• The Phi Beta Kappa Society inducted sixteen Economics majors in April 2022.

  April 15, 2022

  The Phi Beta Kappa Society inducted the following economics majors into the society which is 12.1% of all those awarded.

• The Department of Economics is excited to announce the donation of the Lawrence Robert Klein 1980 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Medal

  April 11, 2022

  The Department of Economics is excited to announce the donation of the Lawrence Robert Klein 1980 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Medal, which has been installed in a beautiful display case on the second floor of the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics

• 2022 Sociology Undergraduate Award for best paper submitted to a Sociology class was awarded to an Economics Dept. major, Ellen Manford

  March 31, 2022

  2022 Sociology Undergraduate Award Recipients - Congratulations to Ellen Manford, Economics Major, '22, who was awarded the best paper submitted to an undergraduate Sociology class, SOCI 122: Socio

• The 2022 Edition of "Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Economics and Finance" was just released.

  February 24, 2022

  The 2022 Edition of “Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Economics and Finance” was just released by Research.com at research.com/scientists-rankings/economics-and-finance.

• Economics undergraduate student Mira Potter-Schwartz and PhD student Xincheng Qiu honored as 2021-2022 Dean's Scholar

  January 31, 2022

  Honored as 2021-2022 Dean's Scholar from the College of Arts & Science and Graduate Division

• Wayne Gao given the 2021 Zellner Award by the Journal of Econometrics

  January 25, 2022

  The Journal of Econometrics awarded the 2021 Arnold Zellner Award for best theory paper published in 2019-2020 to NONPARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION IN INDEX MODELS OF LINK INFORMATION by Wayne Gao