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2020 Student Awards

During this year’s Commencement the Department of Economics Department honored its graduating seniors digitally. Seniors shared their post-graduation plans as well as their thanks to family, friends, and Pitt through the Department’s Commencement slideshow. 

 

Asher Issacs Award to a graduating economics major deemed to be the best based on academic performance and faculty comments.

Fangqing Yu

Meyer Award - Michael Jiang

 

Jerome C. Wells Award to outstanding graduating seniors who plan to attend graduate school in economics.

  • Julia Eger
  • Tyler Rabiger
  • Samuel Ressin

Outstanding Senior Award to undergraduates on the basis of grades, as well as comments from Department faculty.

  • Christian Beveridge
  • Paul Bowers
  • Nicholar Brigham
  • Aaron Chumsky
  • Leela Ekambarapu
  • Evan Gruss
  • Jordan Iserson
  • Hannah Lesch
  • Kishan Vinod Patel
  • Thayjas Patil
  • Mason Putt
  • Cononor Schwartz
  • Annika Park Swallen
  • Ryan Zimba
  • Fangqing Yu

McKay Award to undergraduate students who are active members of the department community.

  • Aleksander Bartnik
  • Peter Bosco
  • Paul Bowers
  • Josefina Colantoni
  • Aaron Chumsky
  • Alaina Doerr
  • Riley Gillespie
  • Morgan Gray
  • Radhika Gupta
  • Lindsay Hopewell
  • Connonr Horan
  • Dingzhao Huang
  • Stephen Kisty
  • Niketa Kulkarni
  • William Lang
  • Migyue (Phobe) Li
  • George (Qiaozhi) Liu
  • Gabriella McGillin
  • Madison Myers
  • Brittany Ngia
  • Morgan Perry
  • Daniel Peters
  • Morgan Rose
  • Augmya Singh
  • Varsha Suresh
  • Caroline Vinci
  • Kellen Zemanski
  • Sammi Zheng