Keith Griffin Memorial Fund
Keith Griffin entered the
Ph.D. program in Economics at UCSB in the fall of 1984. During
his quarter at UCSB, Keith was diagnosed as having cancer;
despite having major surgery and undergoing chemotherapy,
he returned to campus in the fall of 1985. The Keith Griffin
Memorial Fund was established by his friends and family
to honor Keith’s life and courage. This award is intended
for students who have completed the first year of the Ph.D.
program and are not normally eligible for any non-teaching
department awards. It is intended to honor a continuing student
who has shown outstanding dedication and perseverance in pursuing
his or her studies. In order to assure the greatest familiarity
with the eligible students, the selection of the recipient
will be made by a committee composed of all available ladder
faculty in the Department of Economics engaged in teaching
in the current year core courses for first-year Ph.D. students
and all the available advanced graduate students serving as
teaching assistants in these courses in the current year.
| The Griffin fund recipient for 2006-07
is Elizabeth
Cunningham, who started at UCSB in the fall of
2005. Elizabeth received her Master’s of Science
in mathematics from the University of Idaho, where she
also did her undergraduate work in math and Spanish.
She has taught everything from pre-calculus to analytic
geometry and multivariable calculus, but an interest
in developmental and environmental economics was piqued
while she lived in Quito, Ecuador for a semester. |
Elizabeth Cunningham |
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