Faculty › Faculty Honors Faculty Honors Jagdish Bhagwati is the recipient of the 2007 Thomas C. Schelling Award by the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Michael Woodford was awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics at a ceremony in Frankfurt in October. Padma Desai was honored at a major conference on the Russian economy in April. Edmund S. Phelps has won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2006. Jagdish Bhagwati has been awarded the Medal of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and also the Order of the Rising Sun: Gold and Silver Star by the Government of Japan, which is the highest civilian award given to foreigners, in 2006. Alessandra Casella has been honored with a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Political Science for 2006-7. Janet Currie has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. Kyle Bagwell and Bentley MacLeod have been elected as new Fellows of the Econometrics Society. Miguel Urquiola has been chosen to be a 2005-2006 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Douglas Almond has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to do research at the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University during the 2005-2006 academic year. Among the thousands of prominent Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist. Wojciech Kopczuk has been selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge. Prof. Kopczuk's tenure as a Sloan Research Fellow will last for two years.

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