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Chicago faculty organized a dissertation defense for graduate student killed in shooting

Chicago Booth Review. “We dug into Yiran s Dropbox and found two polished papers, which were then distributed to a four-person committee (Professors Lars Peter Hansen, Veronica Guerrieri, Doron Ravid, and me),” Zhiguo He, the Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Finance and co-chair of Fan s dissertation committee, said via email. “Lars and I read both papers carefully, digested their key economic messages, and prepared the slides for each paper,” He wrote. “We then scheduled a public lecture with a wide audience (following the Ph.D. dissertation defense rules at UChicago), to which we presented the two papers. During the presentation, it became clear to the four-person committee that Yiran s papers had met the bar for a Ph.D. degree. We voted right after the lecture, and Lars announced it after the public lecture.”

He died in shooting spree, but professors made sure he still got his Ph D

Late UChicago student Yiran Fan to be awarded posthumous Ph D

Share 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.

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