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  • Prof. Ken MacKenzie receives this year's H. Noel Fieldhouse Teaching Award from Principal Heather Munroe-Blum at the June Convocation - Owen Egan

  • Victoria Zinde-Walsh giving her presidential address to the Canadian Economics Association (Ottawa, June 4, 2011)

  • Prof Richard Schultz (Political Science) presenting Graduate Program Coordinator Elaine Garnham with the Faculty Award of Excellence for Administrative and Support Staff, April 26, 2011 - Owen Egan

  • Erin Strumpf and Markus Poschke - Owen Egan

  • Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Monroe-Blum, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, and then-Department Chair William Watson before Mr. Flaherty's talk to the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (March 2009) - Owen Egan

  • Ngo Van Long - Owen Egan

  • Russell Davidson, Jean-Marie Dufour, Victoria Zinde-Walsh and John Galbraith - Owen Egan

  • Chris Green, Jagdish Handa, Kari Levitt, Myron Frankman, and Tony Deutsch - Edith Breiner

  • Paul Dickinson and Ken Mackenzie - Edith Breiner

  • John Galbraith and Jean-Marie Dufour, with (L to R) Daniel Parent, Paul Dickinson and Franque Grimard in the background - Edith Breiner

  • Sonia Laszlo - Edith Breiner

  • Victoria Zinde-Walsh and John Galbraith - Edith Breiner

  • Convocation: Nov. 2008 - William Watson

  • McGill Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum "capping" new graduate Michael Dineen, 2007-8 Economics Students Association president, at Fall Convocation 2008 - William Watson

  • Robin Rowley speaking at the Department dinner in his and Tony Deutsch’s honour (June 2009) - Edith Breiner

  • Members of the Department listening to Robin Rowley at the Department dinner in his and Tony Deutsch's honour (June 2009) - Edith Breiner

  • Tony Deutsch listening to Robin Rowley at the Department dinner in their honour (June 2009) - Edith Breiner

  • Tony Deutsch speaking at the Department dinner in his and Robin Rowley’s honour (June 2009) - Edith Breiner

  • Robin Rowley opening the gift given him by the Department (June 2009) - Edith Breiner

Department of Economics

Principal's Prize for MacKenzie

Ken MacKenzie, who earlier this year won the Faculty of Arts Fieldhouse Award for teaching (see below), has made it a distinguished double by also winning the Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty Lecturer category. The Prize will be awarded at this fall's Convocation. All his colleagues join in congratulating Ken on this remarkable and wholly deserved sweep.  

Fieldhouse for MacKenzie

Faculty Lecturer Kenneth MacKenzie ("KMack" to the literally thousands of students he has taught since joining the Department in 1982) has won the 2012 Faculty of Arts' Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching. He joins Professor Chris Ragan (2007) as the only other Department winner of the award. As the Department's letter nominating Professor MacKenzie said: "Ken MacKenzie teaches high-enrolment required courses in difficult subjects (statistics and econometrics) that are far from universally loved by students and yet he receives virtually unanimous praise from students, year after year after year. His unfailing kindess, consideration, diligence, humour and skill on the bagpipes are legendary to generations of McGill Economics students."

Mme Presidente

Prof. Victoria Zinde-WalshProf. Victoria Zinde-Walsh delivered her presidential address to the Canadian Economics Association annual meetings at the University of Ottawa on Saturday, June 4, 2011, thus bringing to a close her year as president of the association. Her subject was “Mathematics in Economics and Econometrics,” which was published in the November 2011 issue of the Canadian Journal of Economics.

The 2011 CEA meetings also featured an invited lecture in honour of Prof. Mary MacKinnon, organized by Prof. Ian Keay of Queen's University, her former student (MA 2003), and presided over by Prof. Christopher Minns of the London School of Economics, who worked with Mary when he was a post-doctoral fellow at McGill from 2000-2002 and was also a frequent co-author and colleague on research teams.

(Photo of Prof. Zinde-Walsh by Owen Egan)

Extraordinary student success stories

Congratulations to our recent Honours graduates Michael Puempel (BA 2011), Michael Stepner (BA 2012) and Xiao Zhang (BA 2013)! The three were admitted to three of the best and most selective graduate programs in economics, and this fall will start working towards their PhD there. Michael Puempel will attend the PhD program at Yale University, Michael Stepner that at MIT, and Xiao Zhang the graduate program in Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Our best wishes for their future careers!

Department Members in the News

  • Fabian Lange's work on unemployment discussed on the New York Times' Economix blog: here.
  • Prime Minister weighs Chris Ragan's policy recommendations: Story here. Study here.
  • Jean-Marie Dufour wins Bank of Canada Fellowship Award for 2012: Story here.
  • Chris Green cited in the Financial Times: Europe needs real vision on climate by Bjorn Lomborg.
  • Chris Green and Isabel Galiana’s work on climate change written up by Bjorn Lomborg in the Australian.
  • Chris Green and Isabel Galiana's research on environmental economics showcased in "A New Direction for Climate Change," available online in the Spring 2010: The Science of the Arts issue of Arts Insight.
Updated on Mon, 2013-06-17 14:39
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