Forthcoming Issue

Undergraduate Awards Reception in 2011

Our annual 2010 undergraduate awards reception was held on November 9, 2011 to honour the accomplishments of our best undergraduates. As usual, many of our faculty attended, among them two colleagues, Emeritus Professor Ed Safarian, together his wife Joan, and William Wolfson who endowed awards, as well as Ushvendra Choudhry, the widow of our late colleague Nanda Choudhry who endowed two awards, and her guest, Dr. Cicely Watson of OISE. Also present were Elizabeth Jagdeo from the Department of Political Science and Lanor Mallon, Manager, Faculty Governance and Curriculum. Food and Beverages, arranged for and organized by our Undergraduate Program Administrator Robbie Innes, were enjoyed by all both before and after the presentation of the Awards. Following introductory remarks by our Chair, Arthur Hosios, our Associate Chair responsible for the Undergraduate Program, Dwayne Benjamin and the donors present gave out the awards. We are very proud of these students and extremely grateful to the individuals and institutions that endowed these awards. The awards and their recipients are as follows:

Economics GRADitude Scholarship (to a student in a major or specialist program in Economics) --- Petre Vladimir Radulescu.

Alexander Mackenzie Scholarship in Economics (to a student enrolled in an Economics program who has completed at least two full courses in Economics) --- Nirvani Sookdeo.

Brian Mulroney Award (to the student with highest mark in ECO230Y (International Economic Institutions and Policy), HIS263Y (Introduction to Canadian History), or POL214Y (Canadian Government and Politics)) --- Bradden Skippen.

Stefan Stykolt Scholarship in Economic Theory (to the student in a specialist or major program in Economics who has the highest average in Intermediate Microeconomics (ECO200) and Intermediate Macroeconomics(ECO202)) --- Chunyue (Joyce) Yin

Banker's Scholarship in Economics (to the student with the highest standing in the intermediate macroeconomics course) --- Rubaiya Khan.

Nanda Choudhry Prize in Economics, Second Year (to the student in a specialist program in Economics who has obtained the highest average mark in at least two of the second year courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics and quantitative methods) --- Xueying Liu.

Nanda Choudhry Prize in Economics, Third Year (to the student in a specialist program in Economics who has obtained the highest average mark in at least two full Economics courses at the 300 or 400 level) --- Sai Ma.

Paul L. Nathanson Scholarship in Economics (to an outstanding student whose program includes at least three courses in Economics) --- Linda Wang.

Mary Child Scholarship (to the outstanding graduating student in the Economics specialist program, based on the average mark in the courses that are required in the program) --- Adriana Robertson.

Mary Keenan Award (to two students who have successfully completed the first year in the Faculty of Arts and Science and who have enrolled in a specialist program in Economics) --- Simon Quach and Fang Guo.

Noah Meltz Undergraduate Award in Labour Economics (to an outstanding undergraduate student in our third year course the economics of labour, ECO339) --- Erik Sarkisyan.

Ramsay Scholarship in Economics (to an outstanding student whose program of study includes at least three courses in Economics) --- Jiaqui Lu.

Safarian Scholarship in Economics (to an outstanding student in a specialist program in Economics) --- Chuan Du.

Reza Satchu Award for Excellence in Economics (to the best student in the course on the economics of entrepreneurship) --- Daniel Rodic.

William G. Wolfson Scholarship in Economics (to an outstanding Economics major who has completed second year and taken intermediate microeconomic and macroeconomic theory) --- Zhiying Zhang.

The Lorn T. Morgan Gold Medal in Economics (to the leading graduating student in a specialist or joint specialist program in Economics, based on the performance in fourth year) --- Adriana Robertson