2016 AwardsEconomics
Graduate Awards
William P. Snavely Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies in Economics
William P. Snavely was the first Chairman of the Economics Department, serving in that capacity from 1973 to 1981. In his honor, the Department presents the Snavely Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies in Economics to our most outstanding PhD student graduating each academic year.
- Stefanie Haeffele-Balch
Undergraduate Awards
Howard R. Bloch Memorial Award
Awarded to our top performing student in the economics program.
- Mariam Ghanem
Outstanding Academic Achievement in Economics
Award for students in the top 5% of the graduating class in economics.
- Alexandra Marsh
Excellence Award
This award goes to economics majors that are in the top 15% of students in the graduating class in terms of academic performance.
- Matthew Anderson
- Jordan Bazak
- Megan Bishop
- Zachary Cady
- Aaron Capitel
- Fan Chen
- Hermann De Gennaro
- Grant Eliopoulos
- Chirstopher Evans
- Edwin Galeano
- Francisco Garcia
- Stepan Gordeev
- Matthew Guse
- Jonathan Helwig
- Kyle Jackson
- Andrew Leich
- Christopher Nguyen
- Kennedy Patterson
- Christopher Pavlovych
- Evan Porcella
- Taylor Reffett
- Raymond Rettig
- Zachary Spees
- Leslie Tovar-Rosado
- Qifei Zhang
Departmental Honors in Economics
This is the highest academic distinction awarded by the economics department. This award is given to students who have a GPA of 3.5 or higher and have successfully completed an undergraduate thesis in economics.
- Matthew Anderson
- Maria Barrios
- Zachary Cady
- Francisco Garcia
- Mariam Ghanem
- Stepan Gordeev