ADMISSIONS AWARDS
James K. & Viola M. Hall Fellowship
Award created to support recruiting exceptional applicants to the PhD program
2025 - Rachel Marsh, Yimiao (Amelia) Wang, Manchen (Mandy) Wen
2024 - Swenny Xue, Ishmam Al Quddus, Shiny Shi
2023 – Tynan Challenor, Tsering Sherpa
2022 – Mathew Grimm, Haijing Zong
2021 – Zewei Chai
2020 – Hyun Ji Kim, Lukas Hager
2019 – Alireza Aminkhaki, Felipe Carneiro, Mahtab Karimi
James O. York Fellowship
Award created to support recruiting exceptional applicants to the PhD program
2025 - Manchen (Mandy) Wen
2024 - Camille Bergeron, Chi-Lun Sung, Linda (Xu) Yang
2023 – Ram Das, Hyo Bin Sonn
2022 – Jong Min Jung
2021 – Rafia Nisat
2020 – Dingzhe Leng, Manya Malik
2019 – Tom Holland, Mahtab Karimi
Howard H. Preston Scholarship
Award created to support recruiting exceptional applicants to the PhD program
2023 – Afsana Adiba, Jacob Tasto, Monika Rohilla
2022 – England Can
2021 – not awarded
2020 – not awarded
2019 – Wenqiu Ma
George and Pearl Corkery Scholarship
Award created to support recruiting exceptional applicants to the PhD program
2025 - Andrew Faris, Yimiao (Amelia) Wang, Yen-Chun Liu
2024 - Ziqi (Olivia) Zhang, Camille Bergeron, Kobe Rankich
2023 – Wenping Zhang
2022 – Sangwoo Park, Elliot Spears, Tailai Sun, Eric Wang
2021 – Alfredo Effendy, Zahra Khanalizadeh, Sudiksha Joshi, Khashayar Pourtaheri, Yebeen Lee
2020 – Weilun Shi, Seyoung Won, Dhongkyu Yoon
2019 – Wenqiu Ma, Danial Salman, Tianzhou Yao
Provost Richards’ Fund for Graduate Students
Money allocated by the Provost to assist in recruiting exceptional applicants to the PhD program
2023 – Raid Arman, Tyson Ramirez
2022 – Erik Andersen
2021 – Bocheng Zhang
2020 – Ananya Diwakant, Lucy Hong
2019 – Mikita Khurana, TV Ninan
STUDENT AWARDS
Grover & Creta Ensley Fellowship
Awarded to dissertation-stage PhD students with a well-developed dissertation topic with strong policy implications.
2025 - Ananya Diwakant
2024 - Theradapuzha v. Ninan
2023 – Kisan Choi, Resem Makan
2022 – Reina Kawal, Jorge A. Rivero, Seungryul Jeong
2021 – Castiel Chen Zhuang
Rajarshi Datta
Zhe Liu
2020 – Changgi Kang
Kwong-yu Wong
Taehoon Kwon
2019 – Camilo Granados Castro
Xuetao Shi
Zinan Wang
Henry T. Buechel Memorial Fellowship
Awarded to dissertation-stage PhD students with a high-quality research project and who have an excellent academic record and financial need.
2025 - Yebeen Lee
Heejee Chang
2024 - Gaoqian Xu
2023 – Changhun Choi
2022 – Rajarshi Datta
Wendao Xue
Jeewon Park
2021 – Hae Yun Choung
Kyongjun Kwak
Jorge A. Rivero
2020 – Hyeonseok Park
Qifan Huang
2019 – Shuo Jiang
Hee Jung (Kathy) Jung
Richard B. Wesley Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Economics
Awarded to dissertation-stage PhD students with a high-quality research project and who have an excellent academic record and financial need.
2023 – Wendao Xue
2022 – not awarded
2021 – not awarded
2020 – not awarded
2019 – not awarded
Jeff and Perri Roe Term Fellowship for Graduate Student
Awarded to a third year PhD candidate to conduct research with a faculty member.
2025 - Monika
Jacob Tasto
2024 - Sangwoo Park
England Can
2023 – Saya Ikegawa
Yebeen Lee
2022 – Ananya Diwakant
Lukas Hager
2021 – Changhun Choi
Kisan Choi
2020 – Seungryul Jeong
Yigit Okar
Steven Langton Teaching Award
Awarded to graduate student instructors who demonstrate excellence in teaching.
2025 - Saya Ikegawa
Tyson Ramirez
2024 - Matthew Grimm
Jiyoung Lee
2023 – Dadmehr Didgar
Yizhan Huang
2022 – not awarded
2021 – not awarded
2020 – Ryan Cummings
Vinod Dharmarajan
Zhe Liu
2019 – Yacoub Alatrash
Xuetao Shi
Luis Diego Granera Vega
Graduate Teaching Award
Awarded to excellent Teaching Assistants in first year core courses.
2023 – Dhongkyu Yoon
2022 – not awarded
2021 – not awarded
2020 – Ziqi Hang
2019 – Hyeonseok Park
Rachel M. Storer Award in Labor Economics
Award given for the best paper in the field of labor economics.
2025 - Hyun-ji Kim
2023 - Resem Makan
2022 – not awarded
2021 – not awarded
2020 – Zinan Wang
2019 – Zhe Liu