AAEA Awards/Honors for the Department of Agricultural Economics

Here is a list of our 2009 AAEA award winners:

John Connor and Matt Holt were named AAEA Fellows

Phil Abbott, Chris Hurt, and Wally Tyner : Quality of Communication Award

Joan Fulton and Maria Marshall Group Distinguished Extension Award

Benjamin Gramig: Dissertation Honorable Mention

Ken Foster: Graduate Teaching, 10 or more years

Anna Flaig: Graduate Student Extension Competition Award

The Food Safety and Nutrition Section of AAEA awarded the best economics paper to “Determining the Impact of Food Price and Income Changes on Body Weight” by Christiane Schroeter, Jason Lusk, and Wallace Tyner.  It appears in the Journal of Health Economics 27 (2008).  The award was presented at their section meeting on July 28.

Sam Clark won the undergraduate paper competition at the AAEA.  Corinne Alexander served as his advisor.