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Award Winning Students
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.
2025 – Anastasiia Suvorova
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.
2025 – Yijia Ding
2012 – Qian Liu
2025 - Yijia Ding
2025 – Xun Chen
2026 – Mallory Long