Calendar of Events:
November 2
November 9
November 15
November 21-24
December 8
December 10-15
December 16
January 7
January 11
January 21
January 22
March 10-12
April 25
April 26
April 28
May 3
May 9-11
|
Seminar: Dr. Barrett Kirwan, 3 PM KRAN 661
Seminar: Dr. Jeff Wooldridge 3:30 pm in KRAN 661
Deadline for pending incomplete grades to become failing grades
Thanksgiving Vacation
Classes End
Exam Schedule
Commencement 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m
Spring Semester classes begin
Last day for late registration
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (no classes)
Core Preliminary Exam for PhD students
Spring break
Seminar: Ron Mittelhammer 3:30 pm KRAN 661
Classes End
Exam schedule begins
Semester ends
Commencement exercises
|
Congratulations and Names in the News:
Janet Ayres was named “State Senior Faculty Continued Service Award” by Epsilon Sigma Phi, Lambda Chapter in recognition of continued leadership, initiative and excellence in Extension programming.
Thought You Would Like to Know:
Ayman Shelaby, visiting scholar from Nov 1, 07 to Jan 1, 08. He is working with Maria Marshall - joint research of small business development.
Cuiping Xu, visiting scholar, arriving Jan 1, 08 to Dec 31, 08, working with Holly Wang on risk evaluation issues.
Luciano Castro, visiting scholar, arriving Jan 10, 08 to July 10, 08, working with Jay Akridge to benchmark US firms' marketing channels in designing agrifood business models.
The 2007 National Conference for Agribusiness sponsored by the Center for Food and Agricultural Business will be held November 13-14, 2007. The program webpage is https://www.agecon.purdue.edu/cab/programs/nca/ .
On 10/22/07 Connor was informed by the Social Science Network that his working paper on Forensic Economics made the "Top Ten List" out of 1153 papers in the Price Analysis category for the 60 days ending 10/22/07. To see the paper, go to http://ssrn.com/author=256849 .
Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:
John M. Connor, “Forensic Economics Applied to Price-Fixing Overcharges.” Journal of Competition Law & Economics (November 2007). [available at http://jcle.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/nhm022v1?ijkey=xLc6dR42M8N2LS2&keytype=ref ]
In mid-October, Otto Doering will be making a presentation to the water management Association of Ohio on water issues for biofuel production and will be visiting the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State to give a seminar and visit with graduate students.
Hertel, T.W. “The Biofuels Boom: Implications for World Food Markets”, based on a joint paper with D. Birur and W.E. Tyner, presented to a joint OECD/Netherlands Food Economy Conference, The Hague, October 18, 2007.
Hertel, T.W., R. Keeney and L.A. Winters, 2007. “Why WTO agricultural reforms are such a good idea – but such a hard sell”, October 22, http://voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/665
Will Masters, "Innovative Finance for Agricultural R&D," presented at the United Nations DESA/DSD Expert Group Meeting on Innovative Finance for Sustainable Development, 18 October 2007, New York. < www.un.org/esa/sustdev/sdissues/finance/egm2007 >
Nistor, A. (2007). Assessing the effectiveness of human capital investments in the U.S.: 1990-2000 Canadian Regional Science Association Annual Conference, Mississauga, (Ontario), Canada, September 28-29, 2007
Dr. Wally Tyner:
November 8 – 10 he will be the Keynote speaker for Bio-fuels Conference in Bozeman, Montana
November 12 – 13 he will be a speaker at the Soya and Oilseed summit in Chicago, IL
November 15 he will be a speaker at the Energy Economics and Biofuels presentation to Energy Research Group at Research Triangle, Raleigh-Durham, NC.
November 16 he will be a Keynote speaker on biofuels for the Bankers Agricultural Credit Conference at Texas Tech in Lubbock, TX.
Publications:
Urcola, Hernan, J. Lowenberg-DeBoer, “A Stochastic Dominance Method for Incorporating Yield Monitor Data into the Hybrid and Variety Decisions of Argentinean Farmers,” Computers and Electronics in Agriculture , 58:1 (Aug., 2007), p. 4-12.
Narayanan, G. Badri (2007), 'Effect of mergers on firm profits with trade liberalization: the role of technology', Applied Economics Letters, 14:8, 607 - 610
Job Announcements:
University of Tennessee: Assist Prof – Agricultural Marketing and Logistics
University of Illinois: Assoc/Assist Prof – Agricultural Marketing
University of Illinois: Assist/Assoc Prof – International Agribusiness Management
University of Illinois: Assist/Assoc Prof – Agribusiness Management
Michigan State University: Assist/Assoc Prof – economics of bio-energy and energy markets
Purdue Extension: various openings -
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Assist/Assoc Prof – Agricultural Policy Analysis
Michigan Technological University: 10 faculty hires in the area of sustainability
University of Arkansas: Prof and Head, Dept of Ag Econ and Agribusiness
IVY Tech Community College Columbus: Program Chair; Assist/Assoc Prof of Agriculture
Mississippi State University: Extension position Purdue Extension Service: www.ces.purdue.edu/careers/
Career and Job Sites on the Internet:
For further information, see the Job Posting File in Room 651
Contact Lou Ann Baugh concerning information to be included in future issues of KT
Keeping
Track Monthly Newsletter Archive
|
