The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Thursday, February 19 in remembrance.
Professor Emeritus Anthony Dalton Scott, OC, FRSC, passed away on February 17, 2015. After completing undergraduate degrees at UBC in Commerce and in Arts, Tony continued his graduate studies at Harvard and the London School of Economics, returning to UBC in 1953 to teach in the Department of Economics, where he was Chair from 1967 to 1971. After retiring from teaching in 1989, UBC conferred upon him an Honorary Doctor of Letters in 1992 in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the field of resource economics.