Graduate Departmental Awards and Recognition

Benjamin C. Horne Memorial Prize

The Benjamin C. Horne Memorial Prize is an endowed fund that generates an annual payout which is awarded each year to graduate students in Economics at UC San Diego whose research has potential to advance causes that were dear to our friend Ben: peace, international cooperation, development, and environmental protection.

2021-22 Recipient

Kevin Winseck

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Clive Granger Research Fellowship

Six fellowships, named after Nobel Prize winner Clive Granger, are awarded each year for the most promising graduate student research. The fellowship carries a small stipend and allows the student to make more rapid dissertation progress by minimizing work obligations for a quarter. Nominations are made by the faculty running the thesis workshops (in consultation with their colleagues) and awards are made by the Graduate Committee.

2021-22 Recipients

Stefan Faridani
Wanchang Zhang
Minki Kim
Katherine Rittenhouse
Parker Rogers
Jin Xi

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Graduate Student Research Seminars (GSRS)

This award is targeted at encouraging the presentation of research projects at all stages of development; but ideally those which have not yet been presented. Projects do not need to be complete or submission-ready to be presented. In fact, presenting them early on is a great way to get the feedback you need early to keep the project on-track. Awardee is selected by a committee of peers.

2021-22 Recipients

Frances Lu, "Land concentration, structural transformation, and rural labor market"

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TA Excellence Award

The Department annually recognizes graduate students for TA Excellence. These awards are intended as a tangible form of thanks to TA's who demonstrate great efforts as well as glowing teaching evaluations from both the undergraduates, graduates and their faculty supervisor. Nominations are solicited from the faculty and awards are made by the Graduate Committee. Awards are given out at the Fall departmental party.

2021-22 Recipients

Ali Uppal
Edoardo Briganti
Jay Cizeski
Jin Xi
Min Surk Lee
Xintong Li

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Walter Heller Memorial Prize (Best 3rd Year Paper)

The Department awards the Walter Heller Memorial Prize to the graduate student(s) with the best 3rd year paper. Given in memory of Walter Heller, this award serves to provide a concrete form of recognition to graduate students who are getting off to the best start on their research career. Nominations are solicited from the faculty teaching the final quarter of the third-year paper sequence. Awards are given out at the Fall departmental party.

2021-22 Recipients

Anjali Pai, "Bridging the Information Gap in Undergraduate Economics"
Ali Uppal, "The Leverage Puzzle of Monetary Policy"