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Associate Professor Jiaying Gu of the Department of Economics is now a Canada Research Chair (CRC). Gu’s Tier 2 CRC in Statistical Decision Making comes with a total award of $120,000 for each year of its five-year renewable term. [Read more…]
It’s been a year of changes to how the federal government funds graduate student research. There has been consistency, however, in recognizing PhD students with the Department of Economics and their work. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded new funding to four PhD students in the Department of Economics. Unusually, three of the awards were retroactive and funds backdated to September 2024. [Read more…]
Lawrence Hsu is a champion of interdisciplinary research. That’s why the second year PhD student of economics chose to present his work at a biotechnology conference. It’s also how he won the best poster award while he was there. Across disciplines, research posters are important tools in the dissemination of study results at academic conferences. They provide a complete and accessible visual overview of the project to attract attention and inspire discussion among attendees. Hsu’s work in health economics focuses on the pharmaceutical industry, which was a good fit for the Boston Taiwanese Biotechnology Association’s (BTBA) annual symposium held at Harvard earlier this July.
“Fundamentally, I aim to observe industrial responses to achieve a more accurate structure that describes the correlation between revenue loss and R&D in drug development,” Hsu explained.
“Just like in Hollywood, it’s awards season at the Department of Economics,” said Professor Michael Baker. Baker, the Associate Chair of Undergraduate Programs, opened the 2025 Undergraduate Awards of Excellence in Economics as comedian Conan O’Brien had opened the Oscars ceremony just a few days before.
The 5 March ceremony at Max Gluskin House recognized the winners of 22 awards with a total value of $35 979.84 in prize money. Award recipients were celebrated for course work completed during the 2023-2024 academic year. Donors Robert Douglas, Louise Harris and Ilana Hosios, and Patricia Higgins attended the celebration to present certificates to award winners. [Read more…]
Adrian Schroeder, a PhD student with the Department of Economics won the Best Graduate Research Poster Award at the Canadian Econometrics Study Group (CESG) annual conference on October 25-27, 2024. Fifty-three researchers representing universities and monetary institutions in seven different countries including Belgium, France, and Australia presented posters over the weekend-long conference. Highly visual representations of methods and data, research posters are considered valuable presentation tools in econometrics, a field that applies theoretical models to datasets to evidence policy implementation and equip economists with new tools. [Read more…]