Calendar of Events:
October 2
October 16
October 27
November 2
November 9
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College of Ag Career Fair - Union
Seminar: Climate: Changes, Challenges and Consequences PFEN 214 12-3
Homecoming – Ag Tent on the Memorial Lawn
Seminar: Dr. Barrett Kirwan, 3 PM KRAN 661
Seminar: Dr. Jeff Wooldridge 3:30 pm in KRAN 661
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Mark Partridge will be here on Friday, October 19 th to present a departmental seminar. He currently holds the C. William Swank Chair of Rural-Urban Policy in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at THE Ohio State University. Prior to that, he was the Canada Research Chair in the New Rural Economy at the University of Saskatchewan. He has published over 60 academic and scholarly papers that have appeared in journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. He received his PH.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois.
Congratulations and Names in the News:
John Connor was appointed “Foreign Affiliate” of the Centre for Industrial Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark [http://www.econ.ku.dk/cie/], one of about 15 economists appointed, September 2007-present.
Harlan Day received the John C. Schramm Leadership Award from the National Association of Economic Educators at the National Council of Economic Education's Annual Meeting in October. This award is given to one individual annually whose leadership has had an extraordinary, positive impact at both the state and national levels.
Maria Marshall has been selected as part of the inaugural class for the Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy offered by the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence in Discovery Park and funded by Kauffman. The Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy was established to identify and honor faculty with strong entrepreneurial interest. The Academy selected ten faculty members to participate in a yearlong leadership program that provides networking opportunities and the tools to incorporate entrepreneurial concepts into high impact university programs. Faculty who are selected for this honor will have the opportunity to meet with distinguished Purdue administrators to discuss topics critical to the development of leadership and entrepreneurial skills. Successful entrepreneur leaders from outside the University will also lead seminars during the second semester of the program.
Thought You Would Like to Know:
October 26th, Dave Petritz will be honored in KRAN 661 with the “hanging” of his picture in honor of his retirement.
Homecoming will take place October 27 th as Purdue takes on the Northwestern Wildcats at a noon kickoff. We will again have faculty trading cards and the honorees are: Luc Valentin, Scott Downey, Holly Wang, and Dave Petritz . The College of Agriculture will host a tent on the Memorial Lawn and there will be a buffet from 9 to 11. Meal ticket TBA. The deadline for ordering meal tickets: Monday, October 15 th . Football tickets will be available at a group rate of $32 per ticket (everyone entering the stadium must have a ticket, regardless of age). The deadline for ordering is Monday, Sept. 10 th . For game ticket and buffet ticket information contact the Ag Alumni Office at 765 494 8593.
Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:
Joe Balagtas will present an invited paper at the NEC-63 (Research Committee on Commodity Promotion) Fall 2007 Conference, September 27, 2007, Vancouver, BC. The paper is “Generic Commodity Promotion in a Multimarket Equilibrium,” (with S. Kim).
John M. Connor, “Canada and the Control of International Cartels”, Presentation at the Speakers' Series, Economic Policy and Enforcement Branch, Canadian Competition Bureau, Ottawa, Canada (October 8, 2007).
John M. Connor, “Latin America and the Control of International Cartels”, Presentation at the 2007 International Seminar on Strategy, “Market Power and Antitrust”, sponsored by the Center for Research in Strategy at IBMEC, Sao Paulo, Brazil (October 29, 2007).
September 18 th & 19 th , Otto Doering was in Guelph, Ontario and participated in the strategic planning process for research on the environment for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs. He also visited with our former student John Cranfield and his wife. John is a professor at Guelph.
Otto Doering will be visiting with Agricultural Economics Departments in Vermont and Illinois this month, giving seminars and representing the AAEA. Mid- October He will be involved in the release in Washington of the National Academy of Science's report on the Mississippi River and the Clean Water Act, and also giving one of the Distinguished Lecture Series presentations at the USDA Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.
Will Masters, "Incentives for innovation in African agriculture", invited presentation at the United Nations (New York), Oct. 18th, as part of an Expert Group Meeting on "Innovative Finance for Sustainable Development" ( http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/sdissues/finance/egm2007/ ).
Wally Tyner will be doing a biofuels policy presentation at the University of California, Berkeley, on October 5 and a keynote presentation on biofuels at the meetings of the American Fats and Oils Association in New York, October 18.
Publications:
John M. Connor, “The Great Global Price-Fixing Conspiracy: Sanctions and Deterrence,”Linex Legal European Competition Law Alerter (30 August 2007). [http://www.linexlegal.com/CONTENT/10551/10551Microsoft%20Word%20-%20GREAT%20GLOBAL%20VITAMINS%20CONSPIRACY%20Antitrust%20Mag%2008-06.pdf]
Job Announcements:
University of Maryland: Assist Prof – natural resources, the environment, or economic development
University of Connecticut – Assist Prof – marketing, industrial organization and empirical demand analysis
North Dakota State University Center for Ag Policy and Trade Studies: Assist Prof – trade and marketing
University of Manitoba – Assist Prof – Marketing and Trade
Iowa State University – two faculty positions
Michigan State University – two faculty position
Washington State University – Wenatchee, Washington, Assist Prof value-added agribusiness economics
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
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