Kudos to our Ph.D. Students

Here are just a few of the accomplishments of the Heinz School doctoral students this year:

Yaa Owusua Akosa Antwi, Sam Kleiner, Anand Nandkumar and Jiwoong Yoon presented their research papers at the International Industrial Organization Conference in Boston in April.

Sujoy Chakravarty and Asako Shimazaki presented papers at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in Boston in January.

Yaa and Jian Li will be presenting papers at the inaugural meeting of the American Society of Health Economists in Madison, Wisconsin, in June.

Sam Garman will be presenting his first paper, "Identifying Performance Measure Pattern Changes," at the International Symposium on Forecasting in Santander, Spain this June.

Angela Newell has been awarded a University of Texas at Austin University Fellowship, and will pursue doctoral studies in technology and development at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in the fall of 2006.

Judy Geyer has been selected to attend the 2006 Argonne-Chicago Institute on Computation Economics this summer.

Justin Gross has been selected as a student stipend recipient and poster presenter at the upcoming NetSci Workshop and Conference, to be held in Bloomington, Indiana in May.

Bin Zhang's first research paper, "Financial Privacy for Free? US Consumers' Response to FACTA," has been accepted by Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) 2006.