Washington, D.C. – The Community Banking Research Conference planning committee has named three graduate students as the 2025 Community Banking Research Conference Emerging Scholars. The scholars are: Gene Kang from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, Anthony Waikel from the University of Georgia, and Ruinan Liu from McMaster University. The Community Banking Research Conference, co-sponsored by CSBS, the

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Along with all my colleagues at CSBS, I want to express my sincere appreciation to Jon Scott, Emeritus Professor of Finance at Temple University, for his exceptional contributions to CSBS the past seven years. Jon recently retired from Temple and is completing a one-year term as a member of CSBS’s Economic Research and Policy Scholars. Jon’s deep expertise in business