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Yale Department of Economics Newsletter Spring 2002 |
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Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León ’81 PhD was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Yale’s Three Hundredth Commencement on May 21, 2001, and the Wilbur Cross Medal at the Graduate School’s convocation on May 20, 2001. He completed his six-year term as President of Mexico on December 1, 2000. (The Mexican constitution does not allow a second term.) President Zedillo also returned to New Haven in October 2001 to give a keynote address in the final weekend of Yale’s Tercentennial celebration, on “Envisioning the World in the Next Century: Challenges to a Global University.”
The Powell Prize The Raymond Powell Prize is awarded every September to the most outstanding teaching fellows in the previous academic year, as selected by a committee of three faculty members. The award was created in honor of Raymond Powell, a distinguished member of the economics faculty from 1952 until 1980, who was an exemplary teacher of undergraduates. His dedication to teaching was an inspiration to generations of graduate students and to his faculty colleagues. Recent winners are: 2000–2001: Sze Sze Lau and David Love NEXT >> |
