Wyn Owen Economics Institute Fund
In 2006, the Board of Directors of the Economics Institute gave a major gift to the CU Foundation that created a new endowment, the Wyn Owen Economics Institute Fund. As suggested by the name, the endowment honors CU Professor Emeritus Wyn Owen. Professor Owen directed the Economics Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, and then moved the Economics Institute to the University of Colorado in 1957. The Economics Institute provided economics, business, and English training to students from developing countries who were about to enter U.S. economics and business graduate programs. Scores of students benefited from the Economics Institute’s superb intellectual environment that was developed under Professor Owen’s leadership. In the spirit of the Economics Institute’s intellectual environment, the Wyn Owen Economics Institute Fund provides graduate fellowships to new CU graduate students coming from developing countries; provides funding for conferences in development economics; and provides funds for visiting scholars whose primary research areas are economics, business, or development economics. The first two Wyn Owen Graduate Fellows, who will join our graduate program in August 2008, are Yibei Liu (Shiyan City, China) and Yuchen Shao (Wuxi, China). The department is grateful for this generous gift and for Professor Owen’s many contributions to the University of Colorado.