Please join us in congratulating Grant Schwartz, recipient of the John M. Olin Prize for Excellence in Economics.

If you happened to be in New York City last weekend, perhaps you saw a Times Square billboard promoting a very WashU pastime: Student Life Games. There, smiling from the 55-by-31-foot digital display, were crossword creators and founders of the newspaper’s games page, recent graduate Alex Nickel (Economics Alumni) and sophomore Rena Cohen.

“I really saw how economics can be useful in your everyday life and how much those basic principles kind of run the world in some ways,” says Zena Pare, a junior at Western Kentucky University. She joins fellow St. Louis Fed intern Ella Needler, a senior at Washington University in St. Louis, as they discuss studying and working in economics with Maria Hasenstab, media relations coordinator at the St. Louis Fed.

Advice to parents: don't shortchange the idea stage. A profile of the work of Sam Martorana, a Department of Economics Class of 2020 major.

Sending off the Department of Economics' Undergraduate Class of 2019.

Congratulations to The Charles Leven Memorial Prize winner, Kelvin Yuen for his paper, “Inefficient Unemployment and Bargaining Friction”!

Congratulations to two students with majors in various concentrations of Business and Economics who will be recognized at the annual James E. McLeod Honors and Awards Ceremony as 2018 Ralph Bunche Scholars.