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Yaroslav Korobka Received the 2024 Stapleton Scholars Award

11 December, 2024

CERGE-EI and the CERGE-EI Foundation are pleased to announce the 2024 recipient of the Stapleton Scholars Award: Yaroslav Korobka, a fourth-year student at CERGE-EI. Congratulations, Yaroslav!

The award was made possible thanks to a generous donation from Craig Roberts Stapleton, member of the CERGE-EI Foundation board, former American Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and a long-term friend of CERGE-EI.

“Receiving the Stapleton Award is a profound honor, and I am deeply grateful to Mr. Stapleton, the CERGE-EI committee, and everyone who contributed to making this possible. It is incredibly rewarding to know that a scientific community shares my enthusiasm for my research questions and supports my endeavors so generously. This opportunity will have a lasting impact on my academic development, shaping my career for many years to come," said Yaroslav upon receiving the news.

Yaroslav Korobka (*1998) comes from Ukraine. He is a fourth-year student at CERGE-EI, and will be headed to the Department of Economics at Princeton University next Spring to advance his research into high-dimensional modelling in econometrics.

The Stapleton Scholars Award aims to enable top-performing CERGE-EI students to pursue mobility research stays at top US universities. The Award augments students’ funding to USD 2,500 per month (for up to 5 months); it covers round-trip, economy class airfare directly to and from Prague to the city of the host institution, up to the sum of USD 1,100. The Award also covers health insurance in the USA and US institutional fees.

The selected Stapleton Scholars will spend one week of their mobility at Princeton University, Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, where they will have an opportunity to engage with several distinguished faculty members. The stay begins with a one-day visit to NYC, where the Scholars will meet Ambassador Stapleton and other distinguished guests. The NYC trip travel costs and accommodation are funded by the scholarship. The Award also provides funding for one conference/workshop within the USA, covering travel and costs up to a total of USD 500. The Award further provides funding towards the selected scholars' stipend at CERGE-EI for one term after their return from the US, allowing the scholars to be exempt from assistantship work and focus fully on their research.

Scholarship applications are to be submitted to the CERGE-EI Mobility Committee in March and October of each year. Suitable candidates will be identified and final selection made by April 15 and November 15, respectively.