Bernard Udis *59

Bernard Udis, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, died Aug. 21, 2018, at age 91.

After Army service in World War II, Udis graduated from Penn State in 1949 and earned a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. In 1959 he earned a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton.

Udis had faculty appointments in economics at the universities of Tennessee, Pittsburgh, and New Mexico before spending most of his career at the University of Colorado. There, he was a tenured professor teaching, mentoring, and publishing. He was also director of the Bureau of Economic Research.

His academic interests and expertise brought him to applied economics, especially defense economics. As an economic consultant, his research travels took him to many European countries inside and outside the NATO alliance. During the Cold War, he advocated a political view of peace through strength, as well as supporting civil rights at home. He spent a year as a visiting professor at the Air Force Academy and with the State Department in Washington.

Udis is survived by his second wife, Margaret; two children; two stepchildren; a grandson; numerous step-grandchildren; and his first wife, Clare.

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