Matthieu Ballandonne, a student in the 2011 Summer Institute and a recent HOPE Center visitor, has received the Warren and Sylvia Samuels Young Scholars Award. The award provides funds to attend and present a paper at the next History of Economics Society meeting. Matthieu has also received a Young Scholars Grant from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and a three-month grant to do research at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Science and Technology, which is at the University of Quebec in Montreal. He will be presenting papers at a number of conferences this year.

Matthieu is a PhD student at the University of Angers and is currently working at TELUQ in Montreal.