2021 STUDENT AWARD RECIPIENTS (2021)

PUBLISHED ON NOV 11, 2021

The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is proud to announce this year’s recipients of the Martin and Margaret Lee Prizes and Graduate Student Teaching awards.

Additionally, two new prizes were awarded in 2021. The first was the Yiran Fan Memorial Prize, a fellowship established in memory of late UChicago Ph.D. student, Yiran Fan, which includes contributions from Fan’s parents and was awarded to a student in the Joint Program in Financial Economics. 

The second was the George S. Tolley Prize, initiated by economist Vinod Thomas, AM’74, PhD’77 to recognize and reward a third-year doctoral student in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics whose research paper demonstrates the potential for the impact of economic analysis on policy. 

 Lee Prize Award Winners

Highest Score Earned on the Price Theory Core Exam - Pictured from left to right: Feng Lin, Grant Vaska

Highest Score Earned on the Theory of Income Core Exam - Pictured from left to right: Feng Lin, Xianglong Kong

Highest Score Earned on the Quantitative Methods Core Exam - Karen Wu

Graduate Student Teaching Award Winners

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award - Francesco Ruggieri

Yiran Fan Memorial Prize

Sangmin S. Oh

George S. Tolley Prize

For "Exchange Rate Policy and Heterogeneity in Small Open Economies" - Aleksei Oskolkov