Three students awarded Cochrane Scholarships
The Donald Cochrane Postgraduate Research Scholarship, created to honour the Faculty of Business and Economics foundation dean, the late Professor Donald Cochrane, has been awarded to three recipients for 2008. Yuchao Xiao from Accounting and Finance share the scholarship with fellow students Jason Ng and Alexander Nichols from Econometrics and Business Statistics.
The Cochrane Scholarship is awarded annually to the most outstanding full-time PhD candidates conducting research in any of the business disciplines.
Yuchao’s research involves world price sustainability while Jason’s research focuses on the development of new methods for the production of accurate forecasts. Alexander
received the scholarship for his research on exploration models forecasting the
distribution of time dependent data.
The late Professor Donald Cochrane, a distinguished economist, was founding dean of
the Faculty of Economics and Politics (now Business and Economics) at Monash
University and held office from 1961 to 1981.
This three-year scholarship, valued at $28,000 per annum (plus allowances), is tenable
by a full-time PhD candidate conducting research in any of the business disciplines.
Applicants need to be graduates with first-class honours in a relevant area of business
or commerce.
Photo: Dr Fiona Cochrane, Jason Ng, Alexander Nichols, Yuchao Xiao, Dr Andrew
Cochrane and Professor Owen Hughes, Acting Dean for the Faculty of Business and
Economics.
