THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
PhD Student Awards
2025 Recipients
Highest Score Earned on the Theory of Income Exam
- Neel Lahiri
- Ayman Moazzam
- Kyunghee Oh
Highest Score Earned on the Price Theory Exam
- Sean McMahon
- Matthew Neils
- Kyunghee Oh
Highest Score Earned on the Empirical Analysis Exam
- Ariel Goldszmidt
2024 Recipients
Highest Score Earned on the Theory of Income Exam
- Pedro Adami Oliboni
- Jason Hong
- Ken Miyahara Coello
Highest Score Earned on the Price Theory Exam
- Pedro Adami Oliboni
- Tyler Patterson
Highest Score Earned on the Empirical Analysis Exam
- Ragini Jain
2023 Recipients
Highest Score Earned on the Theory of Income Exam
- Shirui Chen
- Daniil Iurchenko
- Jack Marshall
Highest Score Earned on the Price Theory Exam
- Aaron Leonard
Highest Score Earned on the Quantitative Methods Exam
- Omkar Katta
2022 Recipients
Highest Score Earned on the Theory of Income Exam
- Lewei He
- Zizhe Xia
Highest Score Earned on the Price Theory Exam
- Lewei He
- Zizhe Xia
- Judy Yue
Highest Score Earned on the Quantitative Methods Exam
- Ian Pitman
2021 Recipients
Highest Score Earned on the Theory of Income Exam
- Chase Abram
- Jingoo Kwon
Highest Score Earned on the Price Theory Exam
- Daniel Ehrlich
- Samuel Higbee
- George Vojta
Highest Score Earned on the Quantitative Methods Exam
- Joshua Higbee
2025 Recipient
- Ishira Shrivatsa for "College Credit Policies and Student Outcomes"
2024 Recipient
- Craig Chikis for "Trade and Decelerating Reallocation"
2023 Recipient
- Haruka Uchida for "What Do Names Reveal? Impacts of Blind Evaluations on Composition and Quality"
2022 Recipients
- Thomas Hierons for “External Costs of City Traffic”
- Jordan Rosenthal-Kay for “Local Minimum Wages and Welfare”
2021 Recipient
- Alexei Oskolkov for “Exchange Rate Policy and Heterogeneity in Small Open Economies”
2025 Recipient
- José M. Quintero
2024 Recipient
- Manav Chaudhary
2023 Recipient
- Marco Loseto
2022 Recipients
- Will Cassidy
- Aditya Chaudhry
2021 Recipient
- Simon Oh
2025 Recipients
- Yann Decressin
- Nicolo Rizzotti
2023 Recipients
- Deniz Dutz
- Ashton Pallottini
- Sofia Shchukina
2022 Recipients
- Francesco Ruggieri
- Mateusz Stalinski
- Sidharth Sah
2021 Recipients
- German Villegas Bauer
- Suleyman Gozen
2025 Recipient
- Pedro Adami Oliboni
2025 Benjamin Bloom Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- Michael G. Cuna
2025 Michael and Ling Markovitz Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- Raman Singh Chhina
2025 Provost’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- Ed Jee
- Haruka Uchida
Read more on the SSD website.
Sofia Shchukina, a PhD student in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, was awarded funding for the 2023-24 academic year as part of UChicagoGRAD's PhD Advance internship program for her work with NPR's Planet Money.
The PhD Advance program supports students in building new skills and applying their advanced-degree training in an area of professional interest in academia, industry, nonprofits, or government. The internships are student driven and engage students’ academic work. With coaching from UChicagoGRAD, PhD students create their own projects based on their specific interests and needs. They receive a $6,000 stipend for an internship lasting 300 hours.
The PhD Advance program prioritizes applicants who design customized, project-based internships. Project-based internships are those that engage the intern in a coherent set of responsibilities that progressively build toward a specific deliverable or outcome. Internships involving unrelated, ad-hoc tasks are not considered project-based opportunities. The program also gives preference to internship projects at organizations at which the applicant has no previous affiliation.
For more information about the program and to apply, visit grad.uchicago.edu.