2019 Graduate Lunch and Award Ceremony
We celebrated our graduate students with a lunch at the University Club at the end of April. Our MA and PhD students have worked very hard this year and are deserving of recognition. There are three awards given to MA students for Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Econometrics. The recipients of the awards are as follows:
Macroeconomics award: Ramsha Jaweed, MA student
Microeconomics award: Tong Zhou, MA student
Econometrics award: Wenzuo Xu and Oliver Loertscher, MA students
The Ken Stollery Graduate Memorial Award: Chulsoon Kim and Gray Boyko, MA students
The Nihar and Mina Bose scholarship: Renfang Tian, PhD student
Congratulations on a great year!
A group shot of some of the graduate students, faculty, and staff in the department at the University Club.
Margaret Insley, Department Chair, and Renfang Tian, PhD student
Margaret Insley, Department Chair, and Gray Boyko, MA Student
Jean Guillaume Forand and Tong Zhou, winner of the Microeconomics award.
Mikal Skuterud presenting the Macroeconomics award to Ramsha Jaweed.
Tom Parker presenting the Econometrics awards to Wenzuo Xu and Oliver Loertscher
A group shot of some of the graduate students, faculty, and staff in the department at the University Club.
Margaret Insley, Department Chair, and Renfang Tian, PhD student
Margaret Insley, Department Chair, and Gray Boyko, MA Student
Jean Guillaume Forand and Tong Zhou, winner of the Microeconomics award.
Mikal Skuterud presenting the Macroeconomics award to Ramsha Jaweed.
Tom Parker presenting the Econometrics awards to Wenzuo Xu and Oliver Loertscher
2017 Graduate Student Dinner and Award Ceremony
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!
Allison Mascella - Recipient of the Ken Stollery Memorial Graduate Award. (L-R: Allison Mascella, Mary Stollery, Margaret Insley)
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.
My best and worst grad school memory was . . . . Allison Mascella and Ghazal Memartoluie
A good time was had by all!
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.)
Allison Mascella - Recipient of the Ken Stollery Memorial Graduate Award. (L-R: Allison Mascella, Mary Stollery, Margaret Insley)
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.
My best and worst grad school memory was . . . . Allison Mascella and Ghazal Memartoluie
A good time was had by all!
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.)
2016 Graduate Student Dinner and Award Ceremony
The Economics Department hosted the 2016 Graduate Student Dinner on April 22nd 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 classroom.
The Ken Stollery Memorial Graduate Award was given to students who demonstrated academic excellence and outstanding research contributions. This year's recipients were PhD student's Jack Chen and Jordan Hill.
Congratulations to the 2016 Economics Graduate Students on a great year!
The Ken Stollery Memorial Graduate Award: PhD student Jack Chen and MA student Jordan Hill were awarded the Ken Stollery Memorial Graduate Award for their research in Economics. (From left: Jack Chen, Mary Stollery and Jordan Hill)
Wilson Yang, 2016 Goosie recipient: Wilson was awarded the 2016 "Goosie" award. He had the closest encounter with the notorious UW geese during nesting season and was given a t-shirt to mark the occasion. (From left: Wilson Yang, Becky Moore and Professor Kathleen Rodenburg)
Congratulations 2016 Econ Grad Students! Back row from left: Mary Stollery, Victoria Janicki, Sean Meng, Abby Zhang, Xinyuan (Wilson) Yang, Victoria Xiao, Andres Arcila Vasquez, Jordan Hill, Garnik Kakosyan, Yazhuo (Annie) Pan, Hongxiu (Manda) Li, Jack Chen, Xuan (Maggie) Zhang, Yu (Sonja) Chen, Mohamad Ghaziaskar, Jue Zhang, Bilal Mirza Ahmed, Idris Ademuyiwa, Professor Pierre Chausse, Allison Mascella, Joanna Wajda and Professor Dinghai Xu. Front row from left: David Ta, Qinshu Shi, Xin (Amy) Xu, Lingyan (Jackie) Jin, Meijun (June) Zhu, Renfang Tian, Professor Ana Ferrer, Yichun Huang, Sara Aghakazemjourabbaf, Ghazal Memartoluie and Kayla McKinnon.
Professor Ana Ferrer (Associate Chair of Graduate Studies) and the 2016 PhD students: From left: Yichun Huang, Joanna Wajda, Mohamad Ghaziaskar, Bilal Mirza Ahmed, Professor Ana Ferrer, Allison Mascella, Sara Aghakazemjourabbaf, Sonja Chen, Jue Zhang, Andres Arcila Vasquez, Maggie Zhang, Manda Li, Annie Pan, Wilson Yang, Renfang Tian, Ghazal Memartoluie.
The Ken Stollery Memorial Graduate Award: PhD student Jack Chen and MA student Jordan Hill were awarded the Ken Stollery Memorial Graduate Award for their research in Economics. (From left: Jack Chen, Mary Stollery and Jordan Hill)
Wilson Yang, 2016 Goosie recipient: Wilson was awarded the 2016 "Goosie" award. He had the closest encounter with the notorious UW geese during nesting season and was given a t-shirt to mark the occasion. (From left: Wilson Yang, Becky Moore and Professor Kathleen Rodenburg)
Congratulations 2016 Econ Grad Students! Back row from left: Mary Stollery, Victoria Janicki, Sean Meng, Abby Zhang, Xinyuan (Wilson) Yang, Victoria Xiao, Andres Arcila Vasquez, Jordan Hill, Garnik Kakosyan, Yazhuo (Annie) Pan, Hongxiu (Manda) Li, Jack Chen, Xuan (Maggie) Zhang, Yu (Sonja) Chen, Mohamad Ghaziaskar, Jue Zhang, Bilal Mirza Ahmed, Idris Ademuyiwa, Professor Pierre Chausse, Allison Mascella, Joanna Wajda and Professor Dinghai Xu. Front row from left: David Ta, Qinshu Shi, Xin (Amy) Xu, Lingyan (Jackie) Jin, Meijun (June) Zhu, Renfang Tian, Professor Ana Ferrer, Yichun Huang, Sara Aghakazemjourabbaf, Ghazal Memartoluie and Kayla McKinnon.
Professor Ana Ferrer (Associate Chair of Graduate Studies) and the 2016 PhD students: From left: Yichun Huang, Joanna Wajda, Mohamad Ghaziaskar, Bilal Mirza Ahmed, Professor Ana Ferrer, Allison Mascella, Sara Aghakazemjourabbaf, Sonja Chen, Jue Zhang, Andres Arcila Vasquez, Maggie Zhang, Manda Li, Annie Pan, Wilson Yang, Renfang Tian, Ghazal Memartoluie.
