Calendar of Events:
January 7
January 11
January 21
January 22
March 10-12
April 25
April 26
April 28
May 3
May 9-11
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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
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Congratulations and Names in the News:
Fulgence Mishili is the recipient of the Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture (LEAP) Fellowship, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2008, for collaboration with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) on a study of bean supply in eastern and southern Africa.
Thought You Would Like to Know:
January 25 – Department Strategic Planning Kickoff Meeting with facilitator, Jon Brandt (Head of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University),Beck Agricultural Center, U.S. 52, 8am -5pm, Hors d'oeuvres and Cocktail Reception 5-7pm.
The Purdue Income Tax School enrolled 975 tax professionals in 11 two –day programs at various locations in Indiana. The program is directed by George Patrick.
This spring, the Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE) will offer the Indiana Stock Market Game (SMG) free to Indiana schools. The SMG is a stock simulation in which teams of 3-5 students invest a hypothetical $100,000 in stocks or mutual funds over a ten week period. By participating in SMG, students are introduced to financial markets, factors that affect stock prices, stock selection criteria, the mathematics of investing in stocks, team building skills, and much more. For information go to http://www.stockmarketgame.org/ or visit the ICEE website ( www.econed-in.org ).
Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:
Otto Doering will be attending the Allied Social Meetings Jan 4-6 in New Orleans for the AAEA Board meeting. He will also be meeting with other National Science Foundation evaluators for their Industry/University Cooperative Research Program January 10 th and 11 th in DC.
Will Masters, “Agricultural trade policy in Africa”, presented at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, 12/10/07 . Slides are posted online here .
Will Masters, “Accelerating innovation with prize rewards”, presented at an EU Workshop on Research Policy, Lisbon 11/13/07 . Slides are online here .
Publications:
Tyner, Wallace E., and Farzad Taheripour. “Renewable Energy Policy Alternatives for the Future.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics , Vol. 89, No. 5 (December 2007), pp. 1303-1310.
Gardner, Bruce, and Wallace Tyner. “Exploration in Biofuels Economics, Policy, and History: Introduction to the Special Issue.” Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization , Vol. 5, No. 2, article 1 (December 2007). http://www.bepress.com/jafio/vol5/iss2/art1
Patrick, George F., Amy J. Peiter, Thomas O. Knight, Keith H. Coble and Alan E. Baquet, “Hog Producers' Risk Management Attitudes and Desire for Additional Risk Management Education,” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 39, 3 (December 2007) 671-688.
Tyner, Wallace E. “Policy Alternatives for the Future Biofuels Industry.” Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization , Vol. 5, No. 2, article 2 (December 2007), http://www.bepress.com/jafio/vol5/iss2/art2
Perkis, David; Tyner, Wallace E.; and Dale, Rhys. “Economic Analysis of a Modified Dry Grind Ethanol Process with Recycle of Pretreated and Enzymatically Hydrolyzed Distillers' Grains.” Bioresource Technology , December 2007. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960852407007742
Job Announcements:
Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA: Assist Prof of Food Marketing
University of Tennessee: Assist/Associate Prof, Nursery/Greenhouse and Fruit/Veg Marketing/Mgmt
Economic Research Service: M.S. www.usajobs.gov
University of Minnesota – Extension: MS Regional Extension Educator
University of Wyoming: Assist Prof in Production Economics/Systems Analysis
University of Arkansas: Tyson Chair in Food Policy
Purdue Extension: Extension Educator, Vermillion County
Cal Poly State University: Two assistant/associate professor positions
Oklahoma State University: Three tenure track positions are open (Policy, Community Econ Dev, Production)
Penn State University: Tenure track position in spatial modeling.
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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