# Faculty Awards & Accolades – April 2016 1 Research Highlights April 1, 2016 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/trophy-article.jpg?itok=9-13tVO7)> Professor **[John Horton](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/john-horton)** was recently honored as a 2016 [Early Career Research Award](http://www.upjohn.org/2016-early-career-research-award-ecra-winners) recipient from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. The Volkswagen Foundation recently awarded Professors **[Marti Subrahmanyam](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/marti-subrahmanyam)** and **[Viral Acharya](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/viral-acharya)** a EUR 766,000 grant to support their work on “Quantitative Easing and Financial (In)Stability” with co-authors at Goethe University, Xiamen University, University of Cape Town and Waseda University. Professor **[Paul Wachtel](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-wachtel)** received an honorary degree, *Doctor Honoris Causa*, from The Bucharest \[Romania\] University of Economic Studies, and delivered a convocation address on “Ownership and Institutions: The Story on Banking in Transition Economics,” on March 24. ### Past Faculty Awards & Accolades - [December 2017](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research/faculty-awards-accolades-december-2017) - [October/November 2017](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research/faculty-awards-accolades-october-2017) - [August/September 2017](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research/faculty-awards-accolades-august-september-2017) - [July 2017](/node/47071) - [June 2017](/node/46191) - [May 2017](/node/45246) - [April 2017](/node/44136) - [February/March 2017](/node/42646) - [January 2017](/node/40511) - [December 2016](/node/39431) - [October/November 2016](/node/38521) - [September 2016](/node/36151) - [July/August 2016](/node/35151) - [May/June 2016](/node/33141) - [April 2016](/node/32226) - [March 2016](/node/30781) - [January/February 2016](/node/30036) - [December 2015](/node/27751) - [October/November 2015](/node/25666) - [September 2015](/node/24686) - [Summer 2015](/node/21756) - [April/May 2015](/node/21286) - [March 2015](/node/19296) - [January/February 2015](/node/17816) - [December 2014](/node/49766)