CAS Senior Spotlight interviews two economics majors
CAS Senior Spotlight interviews graduating economics majors Hanna Dworkin and Dhruv Kapadia about their work for student government, academics, and what comes next. Watch the full video here.
BU Today highlights the Kolar family of Econ graduates
BU Today highlighted Charles and James Kolar, brothers who both graduated with Economics majors this year. Their father, Dave Kolar, works for BU in LETS, and earned an MA from MET this year as well! Read the full story here.
Econ major Hanna Dworkin wins the CAS IDEAL award for leadership in inclusion.
Graduating senior Hanna Dworkin has been named the winner of the CAS IDEAL award. IDEAL stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access Leadership and recognizes outstanding work as student senate president and Economics writing tutor, among other activities. The award is further described here: CAS IDEAL (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access Leadership) Award | […]
Economics students accepted into University of Chicago Summer Programming
Congratulations to Economics PhD student Ayush Gupta, who will attend this year’s Price Theory Summer Camp, an intensive one-week program hosted by The University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Economics with the goal of introducing Economics PhDs to price theory. An additional congratulations to undergraduate Economics student Zifan Huang, who is among a 45-student cohort accepted to this […]
BA/MA Alana Motley wins 2024 Initiative on Cities Student Prize
The Economics Department is proud to announce that the Boston University Initiative on Cities has awarded the 2024 Initiative on Cities Student Prize to Alana Motley, a BA/MA student in Economics. This honor is awarded annually to an exceptional undergraduate scholar graduating with a minor in urban studies. The Initiative on Cities states: “Congratulations! Your […]
BU Econ’s Fed Challenge Team goes to DC and meets Fed Chair Powell
BU’s College Fed Challenge Team attended the Fed Challenge open house on February 9th. The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States sponsors the College Fed Challenge, which it describes as a team competition for undergraduate students. Teams analyze economic and financial conditions and formulate a monetary policy recommendation, modeling the Federal Open Market Committee. […]
Econ Major Madhri Yehiya writes in BU Today about leading the Daily Free Press
Madhri Yehiya, an economics major graduating this year, served as the campus news editor and the chair of the board of directors for the campus newspaper, the Daily Free Press. She writes about her experience in BU Today here: Reflection: What the FreeP Taught Me as a Journalist, a Manager, a Student | BU Today […]
EC351 Money and Banking attends presentation by Fidelity portfolio managers
Prof. Gerald Porter and his class Money and Banking (EC351) attended a presentation by Will Danoff and Steve Key, portfolio managers for major Fidelity funds. Their presentation connected macroeconomic trends with investment choices. The photo is of EC351 students with Danoff and Key.
BU Today features Econ major Evan Teplensky as hockey superfan
BU Today featured Economics major Evan Teplensky in their student life section. The story and video highlight BU hockey fans that became close friends through attending games. See the full story here.
Undergraduate College Prize for Excellence Winners
The 2014–15 winners of the undergraduate College Prize for Excellence in Economics were Sirui Feng, Malcolm Kapuza, and Dan Zhu. Sirui is from Beijing, China, and will go on to study computational analysis and public policy in Chicago in September. She graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa this year. Malcolm […]