Marion Philadelphia received the Provost’s Mentoring Award on April 16, 2025, at the 44th Annual Faculty Academic Honors Convocation.

Jacob Bien was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA).

Andrew Daw received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award entitled, “CAREER: Modeling Services as Interactions: A New Direction in Design and Control of Services.” The CAREER award is the highest distinction that NSF can provide to junior researchers.

Paromita Dubey is now serving as an associate editor for The Indian Journal of Statistics.

Georgios Petropoulos was awarded the University of Oxford Visiting Fellowship.

Ramandeep Randhawa had a paper published in INFORMS titled, “Service Operations for Justice-on-Time: A Data-Driven Queueing Approach.”

Dennis Shen was selected as a recipient of the General Education Teaching Award.

Tom Chang received a grant from J-PAL North America for his project “The Impact of Incentives and Coverage Policy on Length of Stay for Individuals in Medically Managed Opioid Withdrawal.”

Kristy Jansen received a grant from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) for her project “Pension Fund Investments and Liquidity.”

Erica Jiang had a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics titled, “Collateral Value Uncertainty and Mortgage Credit Provision.”

Wenhao Li was appointed faculty research fellow in the NBER’s asset pricing group.

Wenhao Li had a paper published in the Review of Economic Studies titled, “Firm Quality Dynamics and the Slippery Slope of Credit Intervention.”

Rodney Ramcharan had a paper published in the Journal of Finance titled, “Finance and Climate Resilience: Evidence from the long 1950s US Drought.”

Michael Paranal was awarded the USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Students.

Smrity Randhawa was awarded the USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Steven Mednick and MBA student William Li had a paper published in mBio titled, “”Modeling Heterogeneity, Commitment, and Memory of Bacterial Spore Germination.”

Zachariah Berry had a paper published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin titled, “People Overestimate How Harshly They Are Evaluated for Disengaging from Passion Pursuit.”

Cheryl Wakslak had a paper published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin titled, “Developing a General Construal Questionnaire.”

Cheryl Wakslak had a paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology titled, “She Sees the Trees, He Sees the Forest: Descriptive Gender Stereotypes of Concreteness and Abstractness.”

Kristin Diehl received the USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students.

Kristin Diehl has a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition titled, “Captured Memories: The Impact of First-Person vs. Third-Person Viewpoint Photographs on Remembering Personal Experiences.”

Gerard Tellis received the Distinguished Alumnus Award and addressed the PhD convocation at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

Stephanie Tully was a panelist for the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s financial literacy resource webinar.