Dartmouth Economic Research Scholars (DERS)

Overview

The Dartmouth Economic Research Scholars Program program (DERS) was established by the Economics Department at Dartmouth in 2013 with the goal of providing additional mentoring and support in economics research to students with strong research potential and high academic standing. Additional advising and out-of-class enrichment activities - dinner discussions, workshops, and peer exchanges - accelerate and enhance the DERS' coursework and enable closer participation with faculty on research projects. Such participation begins with paid assistantships on faculty projects, but often evolves into research collaborations with faculty and independent student projects, including senior theses. The program also aims to prepare interested students for graduate studies in economics and related fields.

Class of 2025 Research Scholars

Pahal Ahuja, Connor Allen, Louis Awdeh, Ochir Batzorig, Nicholas Burke, Kevin Cao, Alexander Clarke, Julian Davis, Fatma Ceren Dolay, Noah Durham, Chidera Duru, Elias Emery, Carolina Escribano Caceres, Antonio Fabian, Alexis Francis, Julie Gnany, Luke Grayson, Hawa Hamidou Tabayi, Jessica Jiang, Francina Kolluri, Wendy Liang, Julia Lin, Kavya Nivarthy, Tram Anh (Vicky) Pham, Vynateya Purimetla, Arpit Rao, Charles Rudge, Geoffrey Yang, Angus Yip, Michael Zhang, Andrew Zuo

Class of 2024 Research Scholars

Eloise Allen-Bowton, Amber Bhutta, Will Bryant, Quentin Calhoun, Morgan Chamberlin, Adriana Chavira Ochoa, Federico Cigolot, Paul Cornell, Julia Cross, Luis Cusihuallpa Solorzano, Caroline Domescik, Claire Draeger, George Fang, Viola Gatti Roaf, Kathryn Hahm, Hailey Hao, Emma Johnson, Keso Kakachia, Daniel Kotrebai, Alexa LoMonaco, Yaro Lototskyy, Sharanya Majumder, Jack Mannion, Todd Mignacca, Ashwini Narayanan, Hoang Nguyen, Tejas Parekh, Xuru Peng, Julia Redstone, Sameer Sadarangani, Victoria Shaw, Allan Wang, Najma Zahira, Yizhen Zhen

Class of 2023 Research Scholars

Brendan Balthis, Maria Castro, Brandon Chen, Will Cook-Healy, Catriona Farquharson, Sophia He, Kira Hobson, Kshitij Jain, Shuyi Jin, Dev Kapadia, Helen Liu, Lewis MacMillan, Kuziva Mahwire, Soham Maiti, Elaine Mei, Oliver Milledge, Aditya Ogale, Umut Ozturk, Megan Ren, Jackson Spurling, Genghe Zhu

Class of 2022 Research Scholars

Raymond Chen, Winston Chen, Sachin Ganesh, Pranit Gupta, Archita Harathi, Victoria Hoffner, Jonah Kalsner Kershen, Yangyang Li, Anjuli Lichtenberg, Rohith Mandavilli, Claire McMahon, Ethan Moon, Marc Novicoff, Ranjan Sehgal, Udai Singh, Arjun Srinivasan, Sophie Wang, Emily Wang, Andrew White, Dhaivat Mehta, Shawdi Mehrvarzan, Grayce Gibbs, Kelly Westkaemper, Chris Cardillo, Nina Ham, Ryan Schwartz

Honors theses abstracts available here.

Class of 2021 Research Scholars

Andrew Ahn, Emily Bjorkman, Meriem Fouad, Catalina Garcia Valenzuela, Carl Harris, Yujing (Amy) Hu, Paul Jeon, Jonathan Liu, Benjamin Matejka, Michael McGovern, Michael Nachman, Revant Ranjan, Elise Rust, Elwyn Zhang

Class of 2020 Research Scholars

Sam Barrett, Morgan Baylor, Albert Chen, Elena Doty, Amy Guan, Yifan He, Elizaveta Maslak, Victoria Meyer, Brandon Nye, Scott Okuno, Jeffrey Qiao, Gunnar Smith, Samuel Wilson, Michelle Wu, Michelle Yao, Srihari Yenamandra, Xinchen Zhao.

Class of 2019 Research Scholars

John Fitz Henley (President), Xinyi Zhang (Vice President), Muhammad Ahsan, Peter Choi, Brian Curran, John Davidson, Christine Dong, Hanting Guo, Matthew Hayes, Isabel Hurley, Yihang Liu, Alex Magnson, Brian McGartoll, Siyuan Qin, Amanda Sload, Briana Tang, Carolyn Zhou,

Class of 2018 Research Scholars

Dustin D. Sheehan (President), Hung D. Nguyen (Vice President), Roshni Chandwani, John B. Glance, Nicole D. Graham, Helen M. Gu, Elena N. Horton, Kooshul S. Jhaveri, Jonah H. Kelly, Akhila J. Kovvuri, Itai Taubenfeld, Joshua A. Ufland.

Class of 2017 Research Scholars

Ran Zhuo (President), Myles Wagner (Vice President), Joonghyun Auh, Ekshesh Bekele, Joseph Bernstein, Christopher Brown, Eric Chen, Madeleine Cooney, Natalia Drozdoff, Andrew Field, Sarah Gertler, You-Ree Lee, Kevin Li, Chengyu Liu, Anwita Mahajan, Katherine McAvoy, Vincent Puzak, Daniel Salas, Ryan Schiller, Joshua Tseng-Tham, Timo Vaimann, Cortland Weatherley-White, Alisa White, Zhecheng Yao, Amy Yang, Kevin Zhang.