Recent Student Accomplishments

Students in the Department of Economics are often the recipients of awards or earn recognition from a campus or national agency. Below we report some of the recent awards that our students have won.

• Two BGSU students won awards at our Annual Undergraduate Economics Student Paper Conference which is held each Spring. Brendan Keep was the 3rd place winner in the Macro division in 2008 and Rachel Childers won 1st place in the Micro division in 2009.
• Rachel Childers received an ODE Gold Key Award for 2009. This is a national award
  which recognizes the recipient for her academic achievements and outstanding leadership qualities.
• In October 2008, at the Ohio Association of Economists and Political Scientists Regional Conference, Rajeevee Panditharatna and Daniel Richey, both MA students, presented in the graduate student session and did an excellent job.
• In October, 2008, also at the Ohio Association of Economists and Political Scientists
  Regional Conference, Bill Nadolski and Rachel Childers presented their work in an
  undergraduate paper contest. Rachel earned 2nd prize for a paper on utility/preferences and Bill won third prize in the awards for a cost/benefit analysis of an adult literacy program. Their presentations were excellent.
• Joseph Newhard received third place for the 2007 Vernon Smith Prize. This is an
  international contest established by the European Center for Austrian Economics
  Foundation. His paper was titled "Democracy, Voluntary and Coercive: The Social
  Contract in Nation, State, and Economy." This paper was based on work he did here at BG. He was invited to present his work at a conference in Vaduz, Lichtenstein. This is a substantial and important award.
• The Economics Department inducted several new members into Omicron Delta Epsilon,
  the Economics Honorary Society. In Spring 2009: Mykhaylo L. Chekalin, Drew
  Johnson, Amanda Jernigan, Bethyn McConahy, Natalie Olson, Quinten Wise, Nasiba
  Imaralieva, Lizi Wu. In Fall 2008: Denis Paquet, William Nadolski, Maureen Cosgrove,
  Thomas Albrecht. In Spring 2008, Rajeevee Panditharatna, Timothy Bianco, Joseph
  Newhard, Mikalyn Wasco, Diana Del Balso, Rachel Childers. In Fall 2007: Rebecca
  Sustersic, Xu Xu, Kevin Black, Brian Yager, Gezim Gjikolli, Maudie Noble, Joseph
  Lauchlan.
• In 2009 we inducted five students into Who's Who in American Colleges and
  Universities: Thomas Albrecht, Maureen Cosgrove, Tony Hunter, Brendan Keep,
  Rajeevee Panditharatna.
• Rachel Childers was selected to receive the Alumni/Faculty Economics Scholarship in
  2009
• Rebekah Livingston earned the Paul Haas Economics Scholarship in 2009
• Brendan Keep earned the Navin Scholarship for Public Sector Economics in 2009
• Rachel Childers received the Amena Khatun Economics Scholarship in 2009
• Mykhaylo Chekalin received the Vimala Krishnan Book Award in 2009
• Tony Hunter earned the Dolores Reynolds Book Award in 2009
• Kevin Black won the Alumni/Faculty Economics Scholarship in 2008
• Rachel Childers won the Paul Haas Economics Scholarship in 2008
• Jay Sharp received the Navin Scholarship for Public Sector Economics in 2008
• Brendan Keep earned the Amena Khatun Economics Scholarship in 2008
• Nathan Weaver won the Vimala Krishnan Book Award in 2008
• Denis Paquet won the Dolores Reynolds Book Award in 2008
• Nathan Weaver earned the Stacey Mott Memorial Scholarship in 2008
• Tony Hunter earned the Mearl & Lolita Guthrie Consumer Economics Scholarship in
  2008
• Diana Del Balso received the Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key in 2008