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Alumni Relations at the Unviersity of Waterloo recognizes the academic achievements of graduating students by awarding Alumni Gold Medals during the University's convocation ceremonies. One undergraduate student representing each of Waterloo's six faculties receives this prestigious award. This year, the Arts Alumni Gold Medal was awarded to Mathematical Economics student, Qingyi Yan.

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. 

The CRDCN (Canadian Research Data Centre Network) hosted a series of webinars on a variety of topics featuring panelists who are experts in those areas. In a webinar titled, "Income and Employment", Professor Mikal Skuterud was one of the panelists. 

Several panel members presenting for an event hosted by Waterloo’s Gateway for  Enterprises to Discover Innovation (GEDI) about "Rebooting the Economy". Economics professor Joel Blit was one of the panel members. He talked about the impact of COVID-19 on the Canadian Economy, saying it will likely be a long recovery that will not affect all Canadians equally.

Professor Mikko Packalen and Stanford professor Jayanta Bhattacharya dicuss how policies that depress the world economy put millions at risk in The Spectator.

Statistics Canada released the numbers from the Labour Force Survey and there were some surprising results. Mikal Skuterud, along with colleagues from Laurier and UBC examined the data. Find the full article with results and graphs at the CD Howe Institute. 

Congratulations to Annie (Yazhuo) Pan for successfully defending her thesis titled, "Essays in Wealth Effect, Family Structure, and Female Labour Supply". Her supervisors were Ana Ferrer and Stéphanie Lluis. We wish Annie all the best on her next steps! 

Congratulations to Andrés Arcila-Vasquez who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled, ‘Three Essays in Policy Evaluation’. His supervisor was Ana Ferrer.

Congratulations to PhD student Renfang Tian who successfully defended her PhD! Her thesis is titled, “On Functional Data Analysis: Methodologies and Applications”. Her supervisor was Professor Tao Chen. The department is incredibly proud of your hard work. Renfang will be an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at King's University College at Western University. Excellent job, Renfang!

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.