McNamara Alumni Center
Memorial Hall, University of Minnesota

Our dear friend and colleague Vernon Ruttan died on August 18, 2008. In honor of his extraordinary lifetime contributions in Development and Growth Economics the Vernon Ruttan Memorial Lecture was presented by Professor Ann Krueger on December 3, 2008. The lecture was followed by a remembrance reception where almost two hundred of Vernon's colleagues, friends and family took part in an afternoon of reflection on Vernon's remarkable contributions to issues of world growth and economic development.