Nikolai Cook, a Department of Economics alumni, was awarded the Economic Sciences prize in the John Charles Polanyi Prizes 2024. Named after the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the John Charles Polanyi Prizes are prestigious honours awarded by the Ontario government to exceptional early-career researchers across five fields: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and economic science. Cook was recognized for his research exploring the economic consequences of climate change and air pollution, as well as his work to address transparency and credibility issues within economics and social sciences.