Student Prizes and Opportunities Student Prizes and Opportunities Off-campus Prizes The Karla Scherer Foundation offers fellowships to female students majoring in Finance or Economics with plans for a corporate business career in the private sector. The University of California at Santa Cruz offers a prize for the best undergraduate paper in international economics. For more details, see the eligibility and applications details at the Center for Work and Service or click here . Each year the Department awards this fellowship which may include more than one grant for further study in economics. The grants are available to Wellesley College undergraduates or alumnae both for post-graduate study and for special projects in economics.
Funds vary in amount.
Peggy held the M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and the M.A. from Yale. She was active in founding the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, and in the Union for Radical Political Economics. She was working on her Ph.D. dissertation and teaching economics at Hampshire College when she died. The department makes substantial cash awards each year to three or more students. The award for best ERS Honors Project was given to Erica Auh '00 .