Miami University student Rebecca Jorgensen receives Provost's Academic Achievement Award

2015 Sep 3

Rebecca Jorgensen of Mequon was one of ten students who received the 2015 Provost's Student Academic Achievement Award for their outstanding contributions to Miami University's intellectual environment.

The recipients were selected based on nominations from Miami faculty. The award is given annually to 10-15 students who have completed their third year at Miami (a minimum of 75 credit hours) and achieved academic excellence while making sustained and significant contributions to the intellectual climate of a department, an academic division or the campus. Students were awarded a $1,000 scholarship and certificate of recognition during a ceremony in September.

Jorgensen is majoring in Mathematics, Quantitative Economics. She is an undergraduate associate in the economics department. She is researching how spending in political campaigns affects election outcomes. Her nominators, Deborah Fletcher, associate professor of economics and Olga Brezhneva, associate professor of mathematics, believe this type of research could be published in a mainstream economics journal.