The Wall Street Journal Award for the Outstanding Economics Major went to:
     Justin Bird and Evan Woods

The Bennett W. Schwartz Award for the Outstanding Economics for Business and Management Major went to:
     Lauretta Wild

The Jim Halstead Most Valuable Person Award* for Outstanding Commitment to Helping Others Learn Economics went to:
     Justin Bird

The Betty Tracy Award for Outstanding Service to the Department went to:
     Christopher Smutny '05

College Honors in Economics were awarded to:
     Nikolay Filchev
     Matthew Hennessy
     Christopher Hofmann
     Branko Iossifov
     Drenusha Kusari
     Rachel Laybourn
     Niko Lindell
     Lauren Posin
     Courtney Ross
     Lauretta Wild
     Evan Woods

Please check the Honors Program page for a complete list of the titles of the honors theses completed by these students.

Departmental Letters of Commendation were awarded to:
     Taylor Arnett
     Lynna Barrett
     Justin Bird
     Markus Kalina
     Jennifer Kim
     Marin Markov
     Blake Nielsen

The grade of "Pass with Distinction" on the Senior Comprehensives was awarded to:
     Taylor Arnett
    Lynna Barrett
     Justin Bird
     Nikolay Filchev
     Matthew Hennessy
     Christopher Hofmann
     Branko Iossifov
     Markus Kalina
     Jennifer Kim
     Niko Lindell
     Marin Markov
     Jessica Monge
     Blake Nielsen
     Courtney Ross
     Lauretta Wild
     Evan Woods

The following students were invited to join Omicron Delta Epsilon—the international honor society in economics:
     Taylor Arnett
     Cynthia Au
    Lynna Barrett
     Darcy Basinger
     Justin Bird
     Donovan Crouchet
     Jamison Ely
     Nikolay Filchev
     Irene Fine
     Patricia Fong
     Brian Ford
     Matthew Hennessy
     Meredith Hoffmann
     Christopher Hofmann
     Branko Iossifov
     Markus Kalina
     Jennifer Kim
     Drenusha Kusari
     Richard Lambert
     Rachel Laybourn
     Niko Lindell
     Juliane Linke
     Alexandru Luta
     Marin Markov
     Jessica Monge
     Brad Nguyen
     Paul Nicholas
     Blake Nielsen
     Lauren Posin
     Morgan Price
     Darlene Quintanilla
     Courtney Ross
     Meghan Ryan
     Leif Schmit-Kallas
     Matthew Seki
     Bethany Sobesto
     Andrew Stannard
     Catherine Tennis
     Heather Weaver
     Lauretta Wild
     Evan Woods

The Department of Economics congratulates all of these students for their remarkable accomplishments.

* The Jim Halstead Most Valuable Person Award is a new student award created by the Department to honor professor Jim Halstead, who is retiring at the end of the 2003-04 academic year after teaching at Oxy for 27 years. This award, which will be handed out every year, recognizes an Econ or ECBM major who has given generously of his or her time to help others learn economics.