
In the early evening of 5 March, the Department of Economics will host its annual Undergraduate Awards of Excellence event. The awards recognize superb undergraduate writing and scholarship undertaken in 2023 and 2024. Third-year Trinity College student Catherine Champion will be one of the recipients.
Catherine’ experience shows that winning an award of excellence from the department often, but not always, involves more than finding a prize on Award Explorer and completing an application package. It’s a rather complicated process, but one that can be demystified.
Catherine won one of the Department of Economics Best Paper Awards. That’s where the first complicated detail arises. The best paper awards were created to recognize excellent submissions made to the Smith Family Scholarship competition. [Read more…]