Omicron Delta Epsilon

Omicron Delta Epsilon (ΟΔΕ), the International Honor Society in Economics, is one of the world’s largest academic honor societies.

Omicron Delta Epsilon recognizes scholastic attainment and honors outstanding achievements in economics, and was created through the merger of two honor societies, ΟΔΓ and ΟΧΕ in 1963. The Babson College TAU Chapter has been a member since 1981.

2025 ΟΔΕ Babson College Tau Chapter Induction Ceremony

May 8, 2025, Capozzi Room, Olin Hall

Babson College inducted 23 new members at a brief ceremony in the Capozzi Room in Olin Hall on Thursday, May 8, 2025. The following 2025 Class seniors inducted are:

• Ana Paula Alvarado Martinez
• Nolan Card
• Audrey Daniels
• Ashwin Daswani
• Gabriel Flores Gonzalez
• Daniel Frank
• Lilian Gofman
• Constantino Guerini
• Valarie Jaquez
• Kaiyi Lyu
• Jeffrey Ma
• Tyler Markovsky
• Mauricio Nogueira Silverio
• Mizan Nurani
• Emilio Oliva
• Sejal Shahaji Patil
• Jonathan Reed
• Fiorella Sturla Izquierdo
• Fin Sunde
• Felipe Viseu
• Charlie Wang
• Kai Watanabe
• Sida Wu

The late afternoon event was attended by friends and family members. Professors Josh Stillwagon (Chair) and Alvaro Boitier presented the certificates and memberships to the new inductees. Also present were faculty from the Economics Division: Professors Josh Deepak Joglekar, Jessica Simon, Josh Staveley O’Carroll and Megan Way.

2024 ΟΔΕ Babson College Tau Chapter Induction Ceremony

May 8, 2024, Capozzi Room, Olin Hall

Babson College inducted 32 new members at a brief ceremony in the Capozzi Room on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. The following seniors are:

• Aryaman Agarwal
• Rivya Agarwal
• Anthony De Oliveira
• Umbelino Nicole DiMartino
• Madison Gambardella
• Andres Joaquin Garcia
• Riya Gupta
• Evan Kisselev
• Loreah Klimas
• Carolina Lopez
• Akshat Malu
• Finnian Mobley
• Jacklyn Mok
• Moira O’Reilly
• Ugochukwu Oriaku
• Felipe Palacio
• Dillon Quinn
• Stephania Roizental
• Edmond Safdie
• Catherin Shaw
• Darshit Sonwani
• Grey Sunderland
• Muangthong Tangitvet
• Carlos Urdaneta Mezerhane
• Thomas Welch
• Isabella Zeng

The Juniors who were also inducted this year are:

• Ava Hascall
• Gloria Chen
• Luca Tschanz
• Fu Zhou
• Pratyay Agrawal
• Jules Deplanck

The afternoon event was well attended by family members and friends. Also present were the Division faculty: Professors Amy Blitz, Alvaro Boitier, Deepak Joglekar, Kent Jones, Joe Ricciardi, Jessica Simon, Josh Stillwagon (Chair), Megan Way, and Jason Wong.

2023 ΟΔΕ Babson College Tau Chapter Induction Ceremony

May 4, 2023, Capozzi Room, Olin Hall

The Omicron Delta Epsilon Class 2023, Tau Chapter at Babson College celebrated the induction of 34 new members at an afternoon reception.

The new TAU members of Babson College are:

• Romil Agarwal
• Ritik Chadha
• Cory Cutrone
• Benjamin Funk
• Ela Gokcigdem
• Viren Goklaney
• Sarthak Gupta
• Kellen Harrison
• Rani Jivani
• Curtis Johnson
• Akrur Khetan
• Parker Law
• Cassandra Lawson
• Stephen McLendon
• Bruna, Medeiros
• Devansh Mittal
• David Mooney
• Henna Nakum
• Robert Pacheco
• Tahj Robinson
• Adam Smith
• Logan Sudeith
• Andrea Torres Everest
• Michael Twomey
• Nathan Watts
• Ryan Watts
• Maeve Williams

The Juniors who were also inducted this year are:

• Zarin Charania
• Pablo Doehner
• Jindal Yash
• Aaron Le
• Henrique Saad
• Muhammad Sati
• Vanshaj Tekriwal

The awardees were joined by the Division Faculty: Megan Way (Chair), Kent Jones, Joe Ricciardi, Jessica Simon, Deepak Joglekar, Albert Barnor and Sam Kwachi. Several family members of the new members were also present at the ceremony.

2022 ΟΔΕ Babson College Tau Chapter Induction Ceremony

May 5, 2022, Capozzi Room, Olin Hall

The Omicron Delta Epsilon Class 2022, Tau Chapter at Babson College celebrated the induction of 27 new members at a short afternoon reception. As Professor Megan Way (Economics Division Chair), said in her welcome address, “… the ceremony is wonderfully short. Economics is all about achieving efficiency and we believe everyone's utility is maximized with fewer speeches, and with more talking and eating.”

The new members are:

• Mehdi Bennani Smires
• Fiaz Bin Sayeed
• Leonard Brougher
• Errikos Camhis
• Benjamin Cantera
• Alondra Cena
• Ishita Chandra
• Andrew Coca
• Andrew Dembowski
• Sajjan Desai
• Shixiang Gao
• Jesus Infante Valderrama
• John Kannam
• Muskaan Kasliwal
• Vladimir Kupchik
• Henry London
• Amay Maheshwari
• Corey O’Neill
• Jack Pirkl
• Rafael Premisleaner
• Garrett Ramos
• Ishita Ranka
• Rosalia Turcios
• Necla Unat
• Lachlan Weyers
• Peter Za
• Shiyu Zheng

Also present were last years’ (2021) members who were inducted (as Juniors):

• Aditya Agarwal
• Anna Dibble
• Morgan Headrick
• Jaoa Pedro Nagao Silva
• Ethan Rosenthal

Congratulations to the new Tau Chapter members at Babson College!

2021 ΟΔΕ Babson College Tau Chapter Induction Ceremony

May, 2021

Due to the Pandemic the annual induction ceremony for the 2021 Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE) usually held in May was cancelled. The ODE certificates and membership cards were mailed out to their respective homes.

Congratulations to the 2021 new members from Babson College:

2020 ΟΔΕ Babson College Tau Chapter Induction Ceremony

May 2020

Congratulations to the 2021 new members from Babson College:

2019 ΟΔΕ Babson College Tau Chapter Induction Ceremony

May 8, 2019, Wellesley Room, Olin Hall

The new members of Omicron Delta Epsilon were inducted to the Babson TAU Chapter on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 in the Wellesley Room, Olin Hall.

Those present at the ceremony were:

• Arun Afzali
• Santiago Arboleda
• Henry Cobb
• Katherine Cullen
• Julia Dean
• Catherine Fan
• Cole Farrey
• Manuel Fernandez
• Julieta Ginevra
• Masaki Kondo
• Anthony Krichevskiy
• Peter Pham
• Celine Turnier
• Xin Yue Yuan
• Penny Zheng
• Ashish Tejpal
• Rares Surugiu
• William Kannan
• Anay Gawande
• Ziyi Zhuang
• Kamath Satvik

Not present were:

• Shanshan Li
• Ash Padia
• Chiara Casoni
• Mehak Mahajan
• Rushi Nagalla
• Guillermo Vadell
• Arnaldo Carillo
• Thant Zin Shwe
• Carla Bremauntz
• Liora Nuchowicz
• Roger Tejeda

Economic Division Chair Megan Way welcomed the inductees, their families and guests. Professors Josh Staveley-O’Carroll, Barbara Alexander, Josh Stillwagon, Joseph Ricciardi and Kent Jones were present at the awards.

2018 ΟΔΕ Babson College Tau Chapter Induction Ceremony

May 19, 2018, Wellesley Room, Olin Hall

Photo credits: Patricia Yusah

The 2018 Omicron Delta Epsilon (ΟΔΕ): The International Honor Society for Economics awarded 24 outstanding students: 22 seniors and two juniors. The new members were inducted on May 9, 2018 at the Wellesley Conference Room at Olin Hall.

New members are:

• Leni Benacerraf
• Tara-Kate Bunnag
• Yanchuan Cai
• Yvonne Chung
• Sam Gabranski
• Reino Hyyppa
• Avnish Jhunjhnuwala
• Giani Jiang
• Brandon Kam
• Matthew McMorrow
• Ayush Mehta
• Rachel Notkin
• Joseph Oliver
• Krish Parekh
• Esha Patel
• Brooke Reis
• Camila Rioseco
• Shresth Sanghai
• Rahul Shah
• Grant Smith
• Theresia Susanto
• Chelsea Yasgur
• Albert Yun
• Tianwei Zheng

2017 ΟΔΕ Babson College Tau Chapter Induction Ceremony

May 10, 2017, Needham Room, Olin Hall

The 2017 Omicron Delta Epsilon (ΟΔΕ) awarded 28 outstanding students from Babson this year. The Class 2017 ODE new members were initiated on May 10, 2017 at the Needham Conference Room at Olin Hall.

New members include:

• Caroline Austin
• Eshwa Azadzoi
• Mariana Bailleres Zambrano
• Nicolaas Budhiparama
• James Curley
• Chaofan Dai
• Simran Fabiani
• Jacqueline Genova
• Maria Giuashvili Aslanidi
• Bahar Golmohammadi
• Abhishek Kothari
• William Nemeth
• Dilara Oztemir
• Rishin Shah
• Welena Wallace