Department of Economics Awards Night

Annual event to celebrate student achievement was held Nov 18

Economics staff - 5 December 2016

Every year the Department of Economics invites donors, alumni, current faculty, staff, honors and graduate students to a celebration of student achievement and the beginning of the holiday season.

The student award recipients for the 2015/16 academic year are as follows:

Undergraduate:

  • Emerson and Tang Family Scholarship- Ahmed Yali
  • Economics Society of Northern Alberta Scholarship - Ahmed Yali
  • Angus Sinclair Abell Memorial Scholarship in Economics - Katarina Wasielewski
  • Dr. Manmohan Singh Prize in Economics - Katarina Wasielewski
  • KD Verville Scholarship for Academic Excellence- Hasan Birer
  • Dr. Milton F. Bauer Memorial Scholarship - Hasan Birer
  • Archibald Forster McGoun Memorial Scholarship in Economics - Frank Olivier-Garane
  • Balder von Hohenbalken Memorial Prize in Economics - Cheng Chang
  • Duncan Alexander MacGibbon Medal in Economics - David Rybak

Graduate:

  • Economics Society of Northern Alberta MA Scholarship in Economics - Shuang Du, Trang Nguyen, Luyao Wang
  • Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship (Masters) - Agamani Chakrabarty
  • University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship - Liang Ma, Boris Ortega Moreno
  • Graduate Student Travel Award - Isaac Awotwe
  • Maurice, Mary and Max Stewart Graduate Scholarship in Economics - Yuanyuan Ning, Yujiao Song, Long Zhao
  • Core Prize - Luyao Wang
  • Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral) - Hyeck Ki Min
  • Research Prize in Economics - April Seburn

The Department congratulates all award winners and extends its gratitude to all the donors who continue to support the level of excellence in all of our students. Additional student awards are adjudicated by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research and will be noted at another time.