The Economics Department hosted the 2017 Graduate Student Dinner on April 21st to celebrate the hard work, dedication and successes the Econ graduate students completed over the past year. It was a great evening for profs and students to connect outside of the classsroom.
Awards were given to students who had the highest grades in the following areas of study:
Microeconomics Award - Colin Wallace
Macroeconomics Award - Xin Li
Econometrics Award - Aidi Yu
This year's Ken Stollery Memorial Graduate Award, valued at $1,000, was given to PhD student, Allison Mascella.
Congratulations to the 2017 Economics Graduate Students on a great year!
The Group (Bottom Row L-R: Jessica Debrouwer, Renfang Tian, Yazhuo Pan, Sara Aghakazemjourabbaf, Ana Ferrer, Iuliia Nesterova, Pat Shaw, Pat Gruber. Back Row L-R: Yin Chen, Qingwei Li, David Hunter, Changqing Li, Pierre Chausse, Ghazal Memartoluie, Xin Li, Mary Stollery, Yuanxiaohui Fang, Andres Arcila-Vasquez, Olivia Mesta, Yibo Liu, student, Wanying Zhao, Francisco Gonzalez, Dinghai Xu, Colin Wallace, Margaret Insley, Jie Chen, Thomas Parker, Richard Yang.)
PhD Students . . . on the home stretch! (L-R: Ghazal Memartoluie, Shernette McLeod, student, Sara Aghakazemjourabbaf.)
An after dinner photo op (L-R: Andres Arcila-Vasquez, Yazhuo Pan, Olivia Mesta, Margaret Insley, Teferi Mergo, Anindya Sen, Renfang Tian)
The glue that holds it all together - department staff! (L-R: Jessica Debrouwer, Pat Shaw, Pat Gruber)
A few of the department's econometricians (L-R: Pierre Chausse, Stephanie Lluis, Dinghai Xu.)
Women in Economics . . . Graduate Advisor, Ana Ferrer, with MA students. (L-R: Changqing Li, Qingwei Li, Xin Li, Ana Ferrer)
And the winners are . . . Professor Tom Parker announcing the award winners.
A good time was had by all!
