2022 Student Research Awards Program
The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy has finished collecting submissions for 2022 Student Class Day Prizes. The deadline for electronic submissions was 5:00PM (ET) on Wednesday, April 27nd, 2022.
For more information about prize topics and eligibility, and to submit a paper for consideration, please visit this Qualtrics form: https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9zgwxSCdqf1Q9a6
Prizes winners will be announced on Class Day, May 25th.
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