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News
Congrats to 2026 Award Winners!
The Department of Economics would like to congratulate our 2026 graduating class award winners for their hard work and excellence.
Faculty of Arts winner of the Alumni Gold Medal: Mike Frapporti
Faculty of Arts Departmental Award winner: Naomi Ellis
Senior Honours Essay Award winner: Nour Elkhawass, for her essay "AI Diffusion and Productivity Divergence in Developing Economies"
Honours Economics Achievement winners: Euan Lawrence & Rachel Finamore
Economics Post-Doctoral Fellow joins the European Commission
Iban Ortuzar Fernandez, Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) in the Department of Economics, joins the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission as an Economic Analyst.
UWaterloo, partners launch initiative to drive AI adoption across Canada
Co-directed by Joël Blit (UWaterloo) and Danielle Goldfarb (University of Toronto), CAIAI seeks to reverse Canada’s productivity decline and strengthen competitiveness by accelerating AI integration.