The Department of Economics proudly announces the winners of the Parker, Romine and GS Dean’s Prizes for the Class of 2020:
Sanford S. Parker Prize
Yankang (Bennie) Chen
Leo Goldman
The Parker Prize is awarded to a Columbia College senior going on to graduate study in economics who shows promise of doing original work and has already demonstrated boldness of thought and a commitment to excellence, whose interests are wide, heart kind, and spirit generous.
GS Dean’s Prize in Economics
Olivia Hartzell
The GS Dean’s Prize is awarded to the graduating GS student who has made the greatest contributions to the intellectual life of the Department and who we believe shows the greatest potential as an economist.
David Estabrook Romine Prizes
Rebecca Cai (Senior thesis)
Linas Nasvytis (Senior seminar)
The two Romine Prizes are prizes that are awarded annually to two members of the graduating class (CC or GS) who majored or joint majored in economics. One prize is awarded to the student who wrote the best paper in a senior seminar. The other prize is awarded to the student who wrote the best senior thesis.
The following students will be graduating this year with Departmental Honors in Economics:
Rebecca Cai
Yankang (Bennie) Chen
Leo Goldman
Olivia Hartzell
Julia Hewitt
John Kadlick
Felipe Pombal Fritsch
Neel Puri
Yifan Shi
We are also happy to announce the winners of the Parker and GS Summer Research Prizes.
Parker Summer Research Prize
Matthew Esche
Kiara Alexandra Ordonez Olzabal
Giovanni Topa
GS Summer Research Prize
Philipp Eibl
Shawn Park
