Calendar of Events
March
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March 19
April 5
April 30
May 5
May 11-13
May 14-June 8
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Spring Break begins
Spring Break ends
Snyder Lecture: Rich Sexton, 3:30 in the Krannert Auditorium
Final Exams begin
Semester Ends
Commencements
Maymester |
Congratulations and Names in the News:
Christine Welch Stair was received the Outstanding Master's
Thesis for 2000 award for her thesis "An Economic Analysis
of Alternative Methods of Corn Rootworm Control: Soil Insecticides,
Areawide Pest Management and Transgenics." Marshall
Martin served as Major Professor.
Michael E. Johnson received the award for Outstanding Ph.D.
Dissertation 2000. His dissertation was titled "Adoption
and Spillover of New Cassava Technologies in West Africa:
Econometric Models and Heterogenous Agent Programming."
William Masters was his major professor.
ICEE News: The Indiana Council for Economic Education has
hired a new Assistant Director, Beverly Brewer. Beverly's
primary duties will be development and public relations.
Beverly has significant experience in non-profit organizations
and fund-raising, and will greatly strengthen the ICEE's
mission of economic literacy for K-12 students and teachers.
Welcome aboard, Beverly!
Thought You Would Like To Know
For information on the Purdue Agricultural Economics Report
see our web site or contact harrisog@purdue.edu.
Current issue has a lead article by Michael Boehlje, et.al.
On the "Producer Production Act..." which is gaining
instant national attention, partly because the same article
was also in the AmAgLaw Assn. January Ag Law Update.
Construction and Remodeling on Campus:
The Aquatics Center is scheduled to open late June 2001.
The center will have a corridor connection to the Recreation
Sports Center (RCS). A competition pool and diving well
will be used for Health Kinesiology & Leisure Studies
courses, Intercollegiate Athletics competition, and RCS
leisure and exercise activities.
The current renovation of WBAA-AM/FM radio stations in
the Elliott Hall of Music will create new studios with state-of-the-art
sound isolation, noise and vibration control, and acoustics.
HSSE Library renovation will begin this spring. The project
calls for reworking 60,000 square feet of the library into
a contemporary electronic information center. Renovations
will include faculty offices, workrooms, study areas, and
collection areas. The project also will upgrade the library's
computer and electronic reference system.
The Union Recreation Center project should be completed
by August 2001. This project will consolidate the billiard
and bowling areas and will create a multi functional recreation
center in the current bowling center. The existing billiards
room will be converted for other uses.
Villa Pizza, a full service Italian Restaurant in the Union,
should be open by July 2001. It will be located on located
on the first level where the two main corridors intersect
at the SW corner of the building.
Design drawings have been developed for two new facilities.
Jerry S. Rawls Hall (RAWL) - the Krannert facilities addition
will be constructed just east of the existing Krannert Building
and the Department of Visual & Performing Arts will
have a new facility just south of the Marsteller Street
Garage.
A proposal has been developed to add an addition to the
south and renovate the existing Agricultural Hall (formerly
Entomology Hall) in an effort to meet the space needs of
the Department of Forestry & Natural Resources.
Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers
Marshall Martin presented "The Economics of Agricultural
Genomics: An Overview" at the Third Annual Agricultural
Genomics Conference, January 29-31, San Francisco, CA.
Allan Gray and Antonio Torres presented a seminar on the
Internet to the Farm Management Corporation, Champaign-Urbana,
Illinois on February 21, 2001.
Publications
Philip P. Paarlberg and John G. Lee, "U.S. Trade Policy
on Lamb Meat: Who Gets Fleeced?" American Jouranl of
Agricultural Economics, Vol. 83, No. 1, February 2001.
Henderson, Jason R., Frank Dooley, Jay Akridge, and Mike
Boehlje. "Distribution Channel Strategies and E-business
in the Agribusiness Industries" forthcoming. Quarterly
Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2001. pp.
47-66.
Hyde, J., M.A. Martin, P.V. Preckel, C.L. Dobbins and C.R.
Edwards, 2001. An Economic Analysis of Non-Bt Corn Refuges,
Crop Protection, 20(2):167-171.
Martin, Marshall A., 2001, The future of the world food
system, Outlook on Agriculture, 30(1):55-63.
Lowenberg-DeBoer, J. and K. Erickson, eds., Precision Farming
Profitability, Agricultural Research Programs, Purdue University,
W. Lafayette, IN, January 2001.
"Estimating precision Farming Benefits," Lowenberg-DeBoer,
co-author, p. 5-11.
"Making Drainage Decisions," Frankenberger, Lowenberg-DeBoer,
Parsons and Strickland, p. 19-29.
"Managing Long Term Soil Fertility," Brouder,
Lowenberg-DeBoer, P. 30-43.
"Increasing Cost Effectiveness of Weed Control,"
Medlin and Lowenberg-DeBoer, p. 44-55.
Job Announcements
Oregon State University: |
Assist/Assoc Prof in Extension Ag &
Resource Policy Specialist |
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona: |
Assist or Assoc Prof in food Marketing and Agribusiness
Management |
Texas Tech University: |
Assist/Assoc Professor of Agribusiness/Marketing |
West Texas A&M University: |
Assistant Professor of Agricultural Business and
Economics |
State University of New York- Cobleskill: |
Assist or Assoc Professor - marketing |
University of Nebraska at Kearney: |
Assist Professor in finance |
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff: |
Aquaculture Marketing |
Tarleton State University: |
Assoc/Assist Prof in ag risk and policy analysis |
Tarleton State University: |
Assist/Assoc Prof in ag policy analysis |
Western Illinois University: |
Assist prof agribusiness |
Northwest Economic Associates: |
Senior Economist located in Vancouver WA |
University of New Hampshire: |
Assist Professor of Community Development |
Purdue Extension Service: |
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