Students Eligible to Win $10,000 Through Essay Contest
The Robert L. Gould Scholastic Award is an opportunity for students of all majors to submit a research paper for the chance to win up to $10,000.
For more than 30 years, SS&C Technologies, a financial technology company, has sponsored the award to recognize outstanding university students who produce academic papers on topics related to investment management strategies, theories and trends.
The topic for this year questions if investors should expand access to tokenized assets, asking students to evaluate portfolio benefits, risks and regulatory challenges in modern financial markets. Evolving financial markets have influenced institutional and high-net-worth investors to increasingly allocate capital to tokenized assets and blockchain-based securities. Simultaneously, advances in blockchain technology have enabled the development of asset tokenization, which has been argued by critics as both favorable and problematic.
First place will receive $10,000, second place will receive $7,500 and third place will receive $5,000. To apply for the Gould Scholastic Award, students must be a university junior or senior. Graduate students are not eligible to participate. Group projects are eligible, but if the group wins, the winning dollars are split equally among the members of the group.
For more than 30 years, SS&C Technologies, a financial technology company, has sponsored the award to recognize outstanding university students who produce academic papers on topics related to investment management strategies, theories and trends.
The topic for this year questions if investors should expand access to tokenized assets, asking students to evaluate portfolio benefits, risks and regulatory challenges in modern financial markets. Evolving financial markets have influenced institutional and high-net-worth investors to increasingly allocate capital to tokenized assets and blockchain-based securities. Simultaneously, advances in blockchain technology have enabled the development of asset tokenization, which has been argued by critics as both favorable and problematic.
First place will receive $10,000, second place will receive $7,500 and third place will receive $5,000. To apply for the Gould Scholastic Award, students must be a university junior or senior. Graduate students are not eligible to participate. Group projects are eligible, but if the group wins, the winning dollars are split equally among the members of the group.
In 2025, Truman students earned first, second and third place in the contest, taking home a combined total of $22,500.
Interested students should contact Yung-hwal Park, associate professor of business administration, at yhpark@truman.edu by Sept. 11.
