News and Notes

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1. Award-winning Students
   
2. Economics Majors on the President's and Dean's Lists
   
3. OMICRON DELTA EPSILON

Each year, the Department of Economics recognizes the outstanding graduating students of the Bachelor's and Master's programs. The 2007-2008 recipient of the Wallace N. Atherton Award for the Outstanding Graduating Senior is Chris Bodziak. The 2007-2008 recipient of the J. Richard Powell Award of Merit for Outstanding Graduate Student is Christine Mulcahy.

Students are named to the President's List when they earn a GPA of 3.75 or above for the semester. The Department of Economics congratulates the following economics students who earned this distinction for Spring 2008 semester:  Ian Curtis Abajian,  
Brian Abe, Bruno B. Aschidamini,  Robert P. Castro, Albert Jacob Chatigny, Yueh-Chien Chen, Daekwang Choi, Christopher Kenneth Doelker,  Clifford Josue Gudiel, Daniel C. Hustert,
Kyle Martin Janes, Roya Susan Ladan, Tanya M. LaMar, James Michael Leininger, Francisco Medina, Nina M. Miller, Stephen Y. Navas, David M. Richter, Erica Monique Ross, Katherine Safaei, Thomas Solorio, Scott Anthony Stark, Dinh Van Tien, Patrick Etrata Valdez, Brian James Vanderplas, and Stina Walander.

Students are named to the Dean's List if they receive a GPA of 3.50 to 3.75 for the semester.  The Department of Economics congratulates the following majors for earning this distinction in the Spring 2008 semester:  Jimmy Alexis Diaz, Marisol Espadas, Kelvin Le, Anthony Paul Martignoni, Anthony V. Nguyen, and John Nguyen. 

Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE) is the International Honor Society in Economics. To qualify for membership, applicants must have an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher and an interest in economics. Students do not necessarily have to be economics majors, but they must have completed at least 12 units in economics with a "B" average or better. There is an initiation fee which entitles the student to a membership scroll and a one-year subscription to The American Economist, the journal put out by ODE. Information and applications for membership are available in the department office.