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Urja Shah

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Urja Shah
Major in economics

Shah started Iowa State as an industrial engineering major because she liked the combination of engineering and business. After taking some economics courses, however, she was impressed with the faculty and realized she found the subject much more interesting than engineering, and so changed her major to economics at the start of her junior year.

Benjamin Meier

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Benjamin Meier
Major in industrial engineering, applied math in economics

When he first came to Iowa State, Benjamin Meier says he “spent a significant amount of time bouncing around between engineering, economics, math, and Spanish, changing my major four times before the end of my sophomore year.”

Jack Fischer

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Jack Fischer

Major in physics, minor in Russian, economics
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Jack Fischer has several diverse interests. After an earlier change of major, he has enough credits to be listed as a senior at Iowa State, but he’s currently a sophomore with a major in physics, and minors in Russian and economics.

Anthony Sax

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Anthony Sax
Major in supply chain management

A native of Woodbury, Minnesota, Anthony Sax has been active in the ISU Economics Club for four years, attending the monthly meetings and the club’s annual spring trips to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meetings in Omaha.

In October, 2015, he was part of a group of 20 ISU students who participated in a special question-and-answer session with business magnate and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.

Neil Gerstein

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Neil Gerstein
Major in economics, global resource systems

Ames native Neil Gerstein’s interest in international issues took root growing up in a family that traveled often. After taking four years of German in high school, he spent a month as a foreign exchange student in that country. His only disappointment with his experience was finding that English is so widely spoken there, that his German language skills were practically unnecessary.

Hieu Nguyen

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Year Graduated: 
2016

“My family emigrated from Vietnam to the U.S. and settled in Minnesota when I was eight years old. My parents never finished middle school because they couldn’t afford it, so I’m the first in our family to finish high school, let alone college.”

Planning to go to the University of Minnesota, a short 20-minute drive from home, he changed his mind after falling in love with the campus during a visit to Iowa State with friends.