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Martin Hackmann Featured in the NBER Bulletin

Martin Hackmann’s article titled “The Return to Nursing: Evidence from a Parental Leave Program” was featured in the latest edition of the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health. The NBER article discusses the difficulties of quantifying nurses’ contributions to patient health.  The article then cites Professor Hackmann’s article as a much needed study to fill […]

Masuma Tewari

2005 Professor Harry Simons Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship for the Study of Accounting Recipient Biography: Masuma is an international student from New Delhi, India. Hailing from a middle class family it was always her desire to pursue her higher education in the United States. Being the only child it was tough for her parents to send […]

Tara Syed

2005 Business Economics Scholarship Recipient Biography: Tara Syed is a 4th year Business Economics major and will be graduating in June of 2006. She is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to return there upon graduation. She is very interested in community service, and is an active member of the Bruin […]

Qingling Sniderhan

2005 Jeffrey W. Baus ’59 Scholarship Recipient Biography: Qingling came from China to the U.S. four years ago. After attending two years of junior college- Cerro-Coso Community College and Antelope Valley College, she transferred to UCLA in the fall 2004. She is currently a fourth year Business Economics major with a minor in Accounting and […]

Jennifer Sihn

2005 The Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Scholarship Recipient Biography: Jennifer Sihn is currently a fourth-year student at UCLA majoring in Business Economics and minoring in Accounting. Future Plans: After graduating from UCLA, Jennifer plans to work as a Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young. In the long run, she hopes to go to law school […]

Michael Powell

2005 Robert D. & Margaret A. Wark Memorial Scholarship Recipient Biography: Michael L. Powell is a community college transfer student from West Valley College in Northern California and the first person in his immediate family to attend a university. He is currently a fifth year undergraduate at UCLA, simultaneously pursuing a BA in economics with […]

Rikin Raj Patel

2005 Professor Harry Simons Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship for the Study of Accounting Recipient Biography: Raj Patel is a fourth-year student at UCLA with majors in Business Economics and Political Science and a minor in Accounting. Raj is president of Beta Alpha Psi professional honors society and is an officer of the Student Accounting Society, two […]

Kamal Patel

2005 Navigant Consulting Inc. Award in Business Economics Recipient Biography: Kamal Patel is an undergraduate honors student with a double major in Business Economics and Political Science and a minor in accounting. At UCLA, Kamal is a manager of the Career Development Committee of the Undergraduate Business Society. As manager, Kamal is responsible with bringing […]

Nadezhda Nikonova

2005 The Howard J. and Mitzi W. Green Scholarship Recipient Biography: Nadezhda (Nady) Nikonova was born on a cold winter’s night in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, just two hours before the New Year. She was one of the only Jews attending a predominantly Russian school in a predominantly Muslim country. With the fall of the Soviet Union […]

Megan Moen

2005 Professor Harry Simons Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship for the Study of Accounting Recipient Biography: Megan Moen will graduate from UCLA in June 2006. With her remaining time at UCLA she plans to write a thesis and complete the departmental honors program for Economics. After working for Deloitte as an Audit Intern during the summer, Megan […]