Marion Philadelphia has been selected to receive the Provost’s Mentoring Award on April 16, 2025, at the 44th Annual Faculty Academic Honors Convocation.

Adel Javanmard has been invited to serve as an associate editor for Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (2025-2029).

Mladen Kolar had a paper accepted by the Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL) titled, “Adaptive Batch Size Schedules for Distributed Training of Language Models.”

Ricardo De La O had a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics titled, “The Return of Return Dominance: Decomposing the Cross-Section of Prices.”

Jason Donaldson and Giorgia Piacentino had a paper published in the Journal of Finance titled, “Conflicting Priorities: A Theory of Covenants and Collateral.”

Gerard Hoberg had a paper published in the Review of Financial Studies titled, “Director Networks and Innovation Herding.”

Arthur Korteweg had a paper published in the Review of Financial Studies titled, “Risk-adjusted Returns of Private Equity Funds: A New Approach.”

Chris Parsons had a paper published in Review of Financial Studies titled, “Urban Vibrancy and Firm Value Creation.”

Lukas Schmid had a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics titled, “Q: Risk, Rents, or Growth?”

Lukas Schmid had a paper published in the Review of Financial Studies titled, “Institutional Corporate Bond Pricing.”

Kristin Diehl and Davide Proserpio had a paper selected as one of the four finalists of the 2024 Paul E. Green Award. titled, “Words Meet Photos: When and Why Photos Increase Review Helpfulness.”

Joseph Nunes and Davide Proserpio had a paper selected as one of five finalists for the 2025 Weitz-Winer-O'Dell Award titled, “The Positive Effect of Not Following Others on Social Media.”

Davide Proserpio and Poet Larsen’s (our PhD student) paper was discussed on Last Week Tonight’s segment on sports gambling.

Davide Proserpio had a paper accepted in the Journal of Service Research titled, “Using Traditional Text Analysis and Large Language Models in Service Failure and Recovery.”

Ike Silver had a paper published in Psychological Science titled, “Reluctance to Downplay: Asymmetric Sensitivity to Differences in the Severity of Moral Transgressions.”