The five-member team from Rutgers University–New Brunswick made presentations and  answered questions to beat Dartmouth and Princeton.

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The Rutgers University–New Brunswick team beat Dartmouth, Princeton, and others to win the Federal Reserve contest. From the left, adviser Jeffrey Rubin, Ali Haider Ismail, Andrew Lee, Federal Reserve chair Janet L. Yellen, Shivram Viswanathan, Karn Dalal, and Ashton W. Welles.

Photography: 
Britt Leckman

Rutgers wins the 13th annual College Fed Challenge, in which top schools analyze the performance of the U.S. economy—and the  monetary policy to safeguard it. The five-member team from Rutgers University–New Brunswick made presentations and answered questions to beat Dartmouth and Princeton, among others, to win the national economics contest, sponsored by the Federal Reserve.