Remembering Elinor Ostrom

Indiana University professor and Nobel Prize recipient Elinor Ostrom has died. Ostrom, 78, died of cancer Tuesday morning at IU Health Bloomington Hospital.

In April 2012, she was named to the Time 100, Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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How People Remember Ostrom:

Burney Fischer
Professor, SPEA

“I think she’s probably, to my mind, the most important faculty member Indiana University has ever had.  In so many ways.  She sets a great standard for the future of Indiana University.”

Matt Auer
Dean, IU Hutton Honors College

“Elinor Ostrom is one of the most remarkable people that I’ve ever met – wholly apart from the professional side, which I would call the superhuman side of Lin – is the human side, the personal side.  Through and through, a wonderful, warm, friendly, compassionate, caring human being.  I know I’ll meet few people who are like Lin in my lifetime.”

Lauren Robel
Interim Provost, IU

“Lin Ostrom was a combination of intellectual humility and searing curiosity. She was incomparable in both her humility and her brilliance.”

Mike McGinnis
Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

“The students, I think, need to be thankful that they had a chance to work with lin. Because many students have been able to do that over the years. Even though she’s not going to be here as they finish up, she’s had a chance to have a real influence on them. Her contribution to our program is going to be very, very difficult – impossible – to replace or to have anyone fill her shoes totally.”