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Adoctoral student’s dissertation usually marks a new beginning the last step in a long academic journey and the start of a promising career. But as Chicago Booth professor Zhiguo He read through the work left behind by his former student, the late Yiran Fan, SM’15,he felt a profound sense of loss.
Yiran Fan
Photo courtesy of the Fama-Miller Center
Fan was shot and killed on Jan. 9, devastating the University of Chicago community. Originally from China, the 30-year-old student was in the fourth year of the Joint Program in Financial Economics. Fan had not yet proposed a dissertation topic at the time of his death, but when his professors and classmates examined his work, they began exploring the possibility of completing Fan’s Ph.D. in his honor.