Jiaqi Ge is a fourth year graduate student in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University, and is the recent recipient of the Brown Graduate Fellowship. Ge will receive $10,000 to partially fund her graduate studies and current research.

The focus of the Brown Graduate Fellowship is to strategically advance ISU research in the areas of study which include science, agriculture, and space science. Graduate students who show a high level of excellence in both their studies and research are those chosen for the fellowship.

Ge has been working on an array of topics including water quality management with Professor Cathy Kling, and the use of agent-based computational economics (ACE) to analyze both electric power and housing markets with Professor Leigh Tesfatsion.

“Ge is a very special young scientist: a quick and eager learner, enthusiastically engaged in her research, and excited about her potential career,” said Tesfatsion, Ge’s major professor.

“I feel very fortunate and very grateful for this opportunity,” said Ge. “My entire experience here in the department and at ISU has been such a positive one.”