January/February 2003

Calendar of Events

AGEC Graduate Student Organization Calendar of Events

Recent Achievements

The following graduate students recently passed preliminary exams:
Roman Keeney – department prelim
Mariah Tanner-Ehmke – department prelim
Tomas Nilsson – department prelim
Hang-Sak Lee – department prelim
Lixia He – department prelim
Sika Gbegbelebfe – micro prelim
Shameem Mahmoud – micro prelim
Josh Detre – micro prelim
Carlos Ludena – micro prelim

Positions Taken by Recent Graduates

• Chuck Zelek – Indianapolis office of Natural Resource Conservation Service

• Jeff Reimer – University of Wisconsin—Madison

• Anatoliy Skripnichenko – North Dakota State University—Fargo

• Hernan Urcola, Agricultural and Consumers Economics, University of Illinois— Champaign-Urbana

Positions Taken by Recent Graduates

Outstanding PhD dissertation for 2002:
Monica Fisher “Explaining Forest Degradation in Malawi: Asset Poverty, Income Shocks and Activity Choice” Major Advisors: Gerald Shively and William Masters

Outstanding MS thesis for 2002:
Silvina Maria Cabrini de Colonna “Grain Marketing Strategies for Indiana Farmers Their effects on Risk and Revenue” Major Advisors: George Patrick and James Pritchett

Paul Preckel attended the Executive Leadership and Management Program at Pennsylvania State University.

Thought You Would Like To Know

A memorial service to honor John W. Hicks, a longtime administrator and professor was held Monday, Jan. 27th in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall. Dr. Hicks who died December 20 at age 81, served Purdue for more than 40 years and had a major impact on Indiana higher education. He was senior vice president emeritus, served for many years as the university’s liaison with the state of Indiana and was an emeritus professor of agricultural economics. The undergraduate library at West Lafayette was named for Hicks, as was the baseball field at Purdue North Central.

Speakers at the memorial service included the university President Martin C. Jischke; Steven Beering, Purdue president emeritus; Robert L. Ringel, professor in audiology and speech sciences, and former executive vice president for academic affairs; Margaret Moan Rowe, vice provost for academic affairs; W. Wayne Townsend and D. William Moreau Jr., members of the Purdue Board of Trustees; and a member of the Hicks family. Comments from Arthur G. Hansen, president emeritus, were read during the event.

Ken Foster is on sabbatic leave until August 2003. He is working with Danish Meat Research Institute (DMRI) in Roskilde Denmark. DMRI is one of the research arms of the Danish Bacon and Meat Council and conducts research and development for meat slaughter industries worldwide.

Econ Ed Concept Calendars are now available, call 48545 to request one.

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

Center for Food and Agricultural Business

Upcoming Programs:

New program designed for seed industry
managers takes place in February

The ASTA (American Seed Trade Association) Advanced Management Forum is a natural follow-up to the longstanding ASTA Management Academy (to be held in March 2003), that has been conducted for over 15 years by the Center for Food and Agricultural Business in collaboration with ASTA. “The ASTA Management Skills Committee has given a lot of thought about the next step in regard to format, length, timing and how to provide the best value in a follow-up program,” says Betty Ottinger, associate director of the Center. “The forum will be an opportunity for participants to dig deeper into topics introduced in the ASTA Management Academy.” The forum takes place Feb. 5 -7, 2003, at the University Place Conference Center in Indianapolis, Ind. Contact Betty Ottinger for information at (765) 494-4328 or bettyso@purdue.edu

Programs sponsored by the Center are taught primarily by Purdue faculty in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Center staff. Other Purdue faculty and guests from other universities also serve as instructors in the programs.

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

Future Presentations

Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers

Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer attended the Bean/Cowpea CRSP meeting in Ethiopia and Tanzania from November 16-27, 2002.

Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer is participating in the Annual Meeting of NCR-180, Precision Agriculture at Davis, CA, January 8-11, 2003.

Publications

Bullock, David, Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer and Scott Swinton, “Adding Value to Spatially Managed Inputs by Understanding Site-Specific Yield Response,” Agricultural Economics, 27 (2002), p. 233-245.

Hertel, Thomas W., 2002. “Applied General Equilibrium Analysis of Agricultural and Resource Policies,” Chapter 26, Vol. 2A. Gardner and G. Rausser (eds) Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Amsterdam: North Holland.

Job Announcements

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Introducing a Special Issue of Agricultural Economics on the World Food Crisis of 2007-08

Now accepting applications for Natural Resources Leadership Development Institute

Considering becoming an Agricultural Economics student? Please visit our Future Student pages.

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