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Thanks to our generous alumni and
donors, the economics department
offers several scholarships each semester
to deserving undergraduate students.
This past fall semester, 11 scholar-
ships were awarded to our economics
undergraduate majors. These included
the Ed Draminski Scholarship, Meek
Bishop Scholarship, and Lorraine A.
and W. Dwight Stone Scholarship.
In the spring 2015 semester, 15
scholarships will be awarded. They
include the Lennell Goodman Am-
merman Scholarship, Warnock Award,
Gerald Konz Scholarship, Mary Claire
Phipps Scholarship, Veldor Kopitzke
Scholarship, Everett Smith Scholarship,
Susan M. Meyer Scholarship, Margery
L. Amundsen Scholarship, and Aca-
demic Excellence Award.
Annually, the department holds
a spring awards ceremony where the
recipients of all awards given through-
out the year are recognized in front of
their families and the donors. These
scholarships make a big difference for
students, who are extremely appre-
ciative of these generous donations.
The donors cannot be acknowledged
enough for what they provide to each
student. Thank you for supporting our
excellent economics undergraduate
students.
Demand is up in the Department of
Economics at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Students are
ocking to study economics like
never before: six years ago there were
roughly 300 declared economics
majors; last spring that number grew
to more than 1,000.
And the department’s faculty
members are prime commodities:
other universities or industries in the
private sector frequently attempt to
lure economics professors away with
lucrative outside offers.
Todd Warnock ’83 wanted to
make sure that economics students
today have access to the same outstand-
ing professors he experienced as an eco-
nomics major more than 30 years ago.
Warnock and his wife, Liz, recent-
ly established the Todd E. and Eliza-
beth H. Warnock Chair in Economics
to help the department support top
faculty and ensure a quality economics
education for future generations of
Badgers. Their gift was also matched by
additional donors to the department.
“Todd has been a wonderful friend
to the Department of Economics for
many years. In addition to his remark-
able nancial support, he has served
as a mentor for our students and
helped to grow our alumni outreach
efforts,” said Letters & Science Dean
John Karl Scholz. Warnock credits
one of his economics professors,
Alumnus Gives Back to Growing Economics Major
“Todd has been a wonderful friend to the Department of Economics
for many years. In addition to his remarkable nancial support,
he has served as a mentor for our students and helped to grow our
alumni outreach efforts.”
— Dean John Karl Scholz
College of Letters & Science
Scholarships Make a Difference
J. David Richardson, with helping him
to get his rst job, which was the start
of a successful career. With his gift,
Warnock hopes to ensure that future
Badgers will also benet from the
department recruiting and retaining pre-
eminent faculty from around the world.
Todd Warnock