PhD Spotlight
Distinguished Teaching Assistants
The Distinguished Teaching Assistant Awards for 2021-22 were presented at the start-of-year reception on September 23, 2022. The winners of a certificate, a limited-edition coffee mug, and a year's membership to the Econometric Society or the American Economic Association were Clement Bohr, Eduardo Campillo Betancourt, Diego Cid Ortiz, Marie Decamps, Tom Fisher, Nina Fluegel Jose Higueras Corona, Gabriel Jardanovski, Anran Li, Yijun Liu, Gaston Lopez, Edmund Yiqi Lou, Kensuke Maeba, Bruno Nunes Fava, Aleksandra Paluszynska, Radhika Ramakrishnan and Tomer Yehoshua-Sandak. These awards are given to the top third of our Teaching Assistants, based on student and faculty evaluations. These awards have been listed prominently on the vita of our students on the job market, and act as a strong signal to potential employers of your teaching capabilities. This is especially true for students from countries where English is not the first language.
Susan Bies Research Prizes
Also awarded were the Susan Schmidt Bies Prizes for Doctoral Student Research on Economics and Public Policy. The awards are given to the best public policy papers presented as part of the Economics 501 seminar. The winners for 2021-22 were Kaman Lyu for “Agricultural Incomes and Human Capital Formation” and Jose Salas for "Screening, Selection, and Asymmetric Regulation: Banks and Shadow Banks in the Mortgage Market.” The prizes were generously donated by alumna Susan Schmidt Bies ’72 PhD. Her professional career included serving on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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