Calendar of Events:
Sept. 27
Sept. 28-Oct.4
Oct. 2
Oct. 4
Oct. 13-14
Nov. 26-29
Dec. 13
Dec. 15-20
Dec. 21
Jan. 12
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Purdue Airport Open House, vintage aircraft display
Discovery Week
Presentation by Tuskegee Airman Col. Charles McGee 7
pm Room 206 Stewart
Homecoming – Ag Alumni Homecoming Reunion
October break
Thanksgiving vacation
Fall classes end
Fall final exams
Fall Commencement
Spring 2004 classes begin
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Congratulations and Names in the News:
William Masters will be on sabbatic leave from August 2003
thru August 2004 at the Earth Institute, Columbia University.
Dr. Masters will serve as Interim Executive Director, Center
on Globalization and Sustainable Development, School of
International and Public Affairs.
Otto Doering has been appointed chairman of Indiana’s
Statewide Transfer and Articulation Committee (STAC) which
has been designated by the Legislature to encourage and
coordinate course transfer and articulation agreements between
all of the state’s two and four year institutions
of higher education.
At the Durban, South Africa meetings of the International
Association of Agricultural Economists, Wally Tyner was
elected to the Association’s Executive Committee for
2003-06. Tim Dalton (PhD, Purdue) won second place in the
Contributed Papers competition at these meetings.
The Center for Global Trade Analysis hosted the Eleventh
Annual Short Course in Global Trade Analysis, August 2-8,
2003. 29 participants from 16 countries attended the course.
Harold M. Harris (PhD, 1971, Purdue) received a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Southern Agricultural Economics
Association for his contributions to his profession. This
award is the most prestigious award given by the SAEA.
Edna Loehman will be on sabbatic leave for one year in
Colorado.
Thought You Would Like To Know:
Ag Alumni Homecoming Reunion – Saturday, October
4th, 11 am to 2:30 pm.
Homecoming at Purdue is bigger and better than ever, and
the School of Agriculture and the Ag Alumni Association
invite you to join us at our reunion tent for food and fellowship
before the game --- Purdue vs. Illinois. Agriculture’s
tens will be located on the north end of Memorial Mall,
convenient to parking in the Marsteller Garage as well as
to the other events and activities, and an easy walk to
the stadium. We’ll have displays, free popcorn and
opportunities to win great door prizes. The meal features
a hog roast. For more information call 765-494-8593 or email
lesterd@purdue.edu.
John Connor was appointed to the Advisory Board of the
American Antitrust Institute.
The Center for Food and Agricultural Business was selected
by USDA to conduct worldwide marketing training for their
staff of foreign service nationals (USDA employees who are
citizens of the country in which the USDA post is located,
and whose jobs focus on promoting US food and agriculture
products into that foreign market.)
Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:
Mariah Tanner Ehmke received a USDA travel grant this summer
and studied in France, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany
and England.
Wallace Tyner attended the International Agricultural Economics
Association meetings in Durbin, South Africa, August 16-23.
John Sanders and Tahirou Abdoulaye traveled to Senegal
and Mali from June 16 – July 20 working with EWA-PADER
and SG2000 to evaluate income effects of marketing strategies
aimed at hastening diffusion of new technologies and increasing
millet and sorghum prices received by farmers. We are implementing
a three part marketing strategy involving farmers selling
later during the year to avoid the post harvest price collapse
(inventory credit), a quality premium, and developing new
markets to moderate the between year price collapse in good
rainfall years.
John M. Connor, “Private International Cartels: Resurgence
and Deterrence”, opening keynote address, First Workshop
of the Research Training Network “Competition Policy
in International Markets’, at the Universite des Sciences
Sociales de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, October 17-18, 2003.
Kevin McNamara presented a paper co-authored by Christoph
Weiss and Antje Wittkopp, “Market Success of Premium
Products: Evidence from the German Food Sector,” 83rd
EAAE Seminar at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of
Chania in Chaina, Crete, September 4-7,2003.
Publications:
John M. Connor, “Case 10: Global Cartels Redux: The
Amino Acid Lysine Antitrust Litigation (1996)” The
Antitrust Revolution, Economics, Competition, and Policy,
Fourth Edition, John E. Kwoka, Jr. and Lawrence J. White,
New York, Oxford University Press. 2004.
Han, Y. and T.W. Hertel 2003. “The Puzzling State
of China’s Meat Trade,” Choices 2nd quarter.
Recent Achievments:
Congratulations to the following who have recently taken
new positions:
Latisha Settlage – Assistant Professor, University
of Arkansas, Ft. Smith
Shana Love – USDA, Washington, DC
Steve Slinsky – The Cotton Council, Memphis, TN
Congratulations to Dan Settlage who successfully defended
his thesis in August.
Job Announcements:
Rutgers: Research Associate – Economics of Innovation
in Agricultural Biotech
Mississippi State University: Assist/Assoc Extension Professor:
1) Enterprise & Community Resource Development, 2) Community
Resource Development
University of Vermont: Extension faculty position in Agricultural
Marketing
University of Illinois: Program Coordinator, Farm Risk Mgmt
Research and Outreach
Purdue University: Dept of Consumer Sciences and Retailing
– Assist Prof – E-Commerce
University of Arizona: Cardon Chair in Agricultural Economics
and Policy
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Three positions: Land Economics,
Environmental, Economics of Entrepreneurship
University of Florida: Lecturer (2 positions)
Purdue Extension Service: see website listed below
Career and Job Sites on the Internet:
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