Alumnae
Name: Yi “Connie” Kang, class of 2008
Majors: Mathematics and Economics
Minors: Finance and Computer Science
Awards and scholarships: Munroe Scholarship, President’s Scholar for 2004 and 2005, and she made Dean’s List in 2007. Also, she was an American Economic Association Summer Program Scholar, an honor that provided her with a pre-graduate, master’s level study and research opportunity at Duke University. The research she presented during Celebrating Student Scholarship Day, entitled “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Pork,” revealed her trademark dry wit. In addition to two majors and two minors, she nearly satisfied academic requirements for additional minors in art and music.
Since graduating from Wesleyan: Connie graduated in 2008 and began a five-year graduate school program at Johns Hopkins University leading to a master’s degree and then a doctorate in economics.