During the 2023-2024 Academic Year, 55 talented students were accepted into Omicron Delta Epsilon. Omicron Delta Epsilon is the International Honor Society in Economics. This organization has more than 700 chapters throughout the world and offers opportunities to activities such as invited speakers, group discussions, dinners, meetings and special projects.
Our Omicron Delta Epsilon chapter comprises 703 members and was established in 1988. We are grateful to Professor Thomas Barnay for the amazing advocacy and enthusiasm that he brings as the new faculty advisor to the Iota Chapter for the Department of Economics which had been dormant since 2013.
During the Fall Semester, 25 talented students from the Department of Economics were accepted into Omicron Delta Epsilon. Congratulations to the Fall 2023 Inductees: Anjali Aggarwal, Catherine Baldyga, Elizabeth Beckett, Mayukha Bhamidipati, Teresa Cassab, Liza Davitadze, Sawyer Dixon, Eesha Varma Gottumukkala, Jessica Gudin, Isabella Halperin, Mercy Iyelobu, Jacob Jawharjian, Aditya Kalia, Thomas Leslie, Zoe Persaud, Isabella Ratto, Cyrus Seyrafi, Ira Sharma, Vishaan Shetty, Harriet Slaats, Holly Soper, Mackenzie Sucher, Laini Sweifach, Yidi Wang, and Jessica Ye!
In the Spring, 30 students received this honor. Congratulations to Sahil Arora, Maxwell Baker, Dylan Black, Ivan Blinov, Michaelia Brown, Justin Chin, Matthew Chopra, Emma Clifford, David Cui, Quyen Dao, Serene De Sisso, Sonia Deb, Dat Do, Salvatore Gagliardo, Minh Hoang, Madeleine King, Jai Mehta, Janaki Mehta, Kashish Mitesh Mehta, Haley Modi, Patrick Mungovan, Olivia Padden, Samira Saad, Sophie Sawyers, Aleksei Shilov, Alexa Skolnick, Mytreyi Sureshkumar, Sahil Surti, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Michelle Zhong!
In order to be eligible to join the Iota Chapter, a student must be a junior or senior economics major, with at least 12 hours completed and have an overall GPA of 3.0. Graduate students must have a GPA of 3.0 in their economics courses, with the equivalent of at least one semester of economics graduate work completed.
If you are interested in applying, please visit https://cssh.northeastern.edu/economics/omicron-delta-epsilon/. The next round of applications will open in Fall 2023.
Omicron Delta Epsilon is dedicated to the encouragement of excellence in economics. It encourages devotion on the part of its members as economists to the advancement of their science and to the scholarly effort to make freedom from want and deprivation a reality for all mankind.
