Graduating Economics students are recognized for their hard work and dedication each year. There are several awards given out to students who have demonstrated outstanding work in their academic performance. The awards given are:
Recently featured in the UWaterloo daily bulletin was a very interesting article about the Black experience at Waterloo from the 1960s to the 1990s. Some of the early hires of Black professors are highlighted, including Dr. Karl Bennett in Economics, now a Professor Emeritus. These faculty members "had lasting impacts on the community and the world."
The Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo is seeking to fill a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) and tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with an anticipated (flexible) start date of January 2022. The applicant will be an exceptional Indigenous scholar who has a demonstrated commitment to engaging both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students and community members in teaching and research activities and whose work will contribute to one or more of our academic units.
Professor Mikko Packalen outlines why we must be cautious about our expectations of testing in this op-ed for the Financial Post.
Read his co-authored op-ed piece with Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya in the Financial Post.
With the pandemic going on, there is lots of talk about CERB, the benefit that was created as an emergency response. Professor Stephanie Lluis wrote a memo for the C.D. Howe Institute titled, "Lessons from Employment Insurance for the CERB" where she discusses how employment insurance can provide guidance for the CERB.
Professor Mikko Packalen and Stanford professor Jayanta Bhattacharya dicuss how policies that depress the world economy put millions at risk in The Spectator.
Yichun Huang, a PhD student in Economics, competed in the Arts 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition earlier this term. Yichun had three minutes to explain her thesis with one static slide.
The Ken Stollery Graduate Memorial Award: Chulsoon Kim and Gray Boyko, MA students
The Nihar and Mina Bose scholarship: Renfang Tian, PhD student
Macroeconomics award: Ramsha Jaweed, MA student
Microeconomics award: Tong Zhou, MA student
Econometrics award: Wenzuo Xu and Oliver Loertscher, MA students