Graduate
Contact Information
Graduate Coordinator
Sandra Augustine
Graduate Office
Department of Economics
Social Science Centre, Room 4077
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
N6A 5C2
Telephone: 519 661-3505
Fax: 519 661-3666
General Inquiries:
Sandra Augustine (econ-gradcoordinator@uwo.ca)
Graduate Director
Juan Carlos Hatchondo
Award Winning Students
T. Merritt Brown Thesis Prize
The T. Merritt Brown Thesis Prize valued at $600 and created in recognition of the late Professor Brown’s outstanding contributions in econometrics, is awarded to a graduate student who has produced exceptional work deemed appropriate to receive such an honour. Professor Brown, the first Canadian to be elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1972, and who had also obtained his B.A. at Western, returned to join the faculty in 1967.
2024 – Emmanuel Murray Leclair
Summer Paper Prize
During the summer term at the end of their second year in the program, PhD students must prepare a research paper (“the Summer Paper”). After the paper is completed, it is submitted to a committee consisting of the summer paper supervisor and at least one other faculty member selected in consultation with the Director of the Graduate Program. The committee may then nominate the paper for the prize. Winners are chosen by the Graduate Awards Committee.
2024 – Nalinda Murray
Trillium Scholarship Winner
2012 – Qian Liu
Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Scholarship
2025 - Yijia Ding
Gervan Fearon Ph.D Award in Economics
2024 – Javier Martinez Hernandez
Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year
2025 – Luong Hoan Vu Cao