November 2001

Calendar of Events

AGEC Graduate Student Organization Calendar of Events

Congratulations and Names in the News:

Congratulations to Joan Fulton and Freddie Barnard for receiving the Junior and Senior PUCESA Extension Awards for their outstanding extension programs and professional contributions. The Annual Extension Awards Banquet was held October 16, 2001.

Will Master's research on the links between climate and economic performance continues to get media attention, with new articles in ABCNews.com and the Indianapolis Star, and radio interest in Australia and Ireland. For more information about his article "Climate and Scale in Economic Growth" Journal of Economic Growth, see http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/staff/masters/

The Executive MBA in Food and Agribusiness class that began in August of 2001 returns to campus for their first two-week in-residency session November 5-17. This class of 28, food and agribusiness professionals, have an average age of 35 with 12 years of business experience. Twelve states are represented as well as the countries of Bulgaria, Germany and Guatemala. Thirty percent of the students already have advanced degrees.

The EMBA program is a 2-year cohort program for working professionals to obtain their MBA with a focus on food and agricultural business. The program uses distance education technology and a limited number of in-residency sessions. This fully accredited MBA is a joint program between the School of Agriculture and the Krannert School of Management. For more information call 765-494-4270 or http://www.emba-agbus.purdue.edu

Thought You Would Like To Know

For information on the Purdue Agricultural Economics Report see our web site or contact harrisog@purdue.edu.

Graduate student travel scholarships are available to attend the 2002 International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IAMA) World Forum and Symposium, The Netherlands, June 7-11, 2002. The deadline is January 15, 2002 - see http://www.ifama.org for more information.

The application deadline for the Sylvia Lane Fellowship is November 15th. This fellowship provides an opportunity for women who are recent graduates and current graduate students to work with a mentor at another institution. The fellowship may involve spending several months at the mentor's institution or making several shorter visits. http://www.aaea.org/sections/cwae/

Ag Econ launches a new Study Abroad web site:

The start of the fall semester was marked by the introduction of a new destination on the world wide web. The site, designed by Associate Professor Gerald Shivery and department web specialist Matt Mooney, aims to promote and facilitate study abroad among Ag Econ undergraduates. The site includes basic information on study abroad, video clips from students who have recently studied abroad, and a ‘location finder' designed to help students locate study abroad programs that match their interests. The site, which is located at http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/study_abroad also contains special information for parents of study abroad students as well as information for individuals and institutions interested in sponsoring undergraduate study aborad.

Center for Food and Agricultural Business

Upcoming Programs:

For more information: www.agecon.purdue.edu/cab

Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers

George Patrick served on the W.I. Myers Agricultural Finance and Management Program Advisory Council for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, October 25-26, 2001.

Hertel, Thomas W., Terrie Walmsley and Ken Itakura, 2001. "Dynamic Effects of the ‘New Age' Free Trade Agreement between Japan and Singapore", presented to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Tokyo, Japan, September 4.

Hertel, Thomas W., Paul V. Preckel, John Cranfield and Maros Ivanic, 2001. "Poverty Impacts of Multilateral Trade Liberalization", presented to a workshop in the Department of Managerial and Applied Economics, Cornell University, September 28.

Hertel, Thomas W., Paul V. Preckel, John Cranfield and Maros Ivanic, 2001. "Poverty Impacts of Multilateral Trade Liberalization", Plenary Paper presented to the annual meetings of the German Agricultural Economics Society (GeWiSola), Barunschweig, Germany, October 8.

Sicular, Terry, Yaohui Zhao and Thomas W. Hertel, 2001. "Employment, Earnings and the Labor Market Impacts of China's WTO Accession", presented at a workshop on the Poverty Impacts of China's WTO Accession, The World Bank, Beijing, China, October 26.

Hertel, Thomas W., Fan Zhai and Zhi Wang, 2001. "Implications of WTO Accession for Poverty in China", presented at a workshop on the Poverty Impacts of China's WTO Accession, The Work Bank, Beijing, China, October 26.

Publications

Jay T. Akridge, Freddie Barnard, David Downey and Steven Erickson, Agribusiness Management, McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Hertel, Thomas W., Terrie Walmsley and Ken Itakura, 2001. "Dynamic Effects of the ‘New Age' Free Trade Agreement between Japan and Singapore", Journal of Economic Integration, December, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 1019-1049.

Walmsley, Terrie, Thomas W. Hertel, 2001. "China's Accession to the WTO: Timing is Everything" World Economy. August, Vol. 24.

Job Announcements

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USDA National Needs Fellowships In The Economics Of Alternative Energy are available. For more information, download the pdf.