Keeping Track
June 2009
Calendar of Events:
June 15 |
Summer Session Begins |
Going Green Tip for June: Drive with cruise control on the highway. BECAUSE: Keeping a steady pace burns gas at a constant rate, which lets you drive as much as 10 percent farther on a single tank.
Congratulations and Names in the News:
Joan Fulton was elected as Vice Chair of the faculty senate, and this means in the following year she will hold the position of Chair. Please congratulate Joan for all her service on this valuable committee and to the department.
Dean Jay Akridge announced the winner of the 2009 Purdue Agriculture TEAM Award – Integrated Corn Ethanol Co-Products Team, an interdisciplinary applied research and Extension rapid response effort, address issues surrounding the increasing production of DDGS from the corn ethanol industry, including the DDGS production process, impacts of DDGS as an animal feed ingredient, and economics of its use. The team has created a series of Bioenergy Extension publications, sponsored several seminars and a conference for stakeholders, and written numerous refereed journal articles. The team’s effort is supported by partnership with The Andersons Clymers Ethanol (a local ethanol plant) and the Indiana State Department of Agriculture.
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Seth Bossingham, Dennis Buckmaster, Clairmont Clementson, Arnoldo Garcia, Klein Ileleji, Teshome Jiru, Don Jones, A.R.P. Kingsley, Dirk Maier, Chad Martin, Kyle Probst, Shannon Snyder, Richard Stroshine
Agricultural Communication
Becky Goetz, Laura Hoelscher, Steve Leer, Russell Merzdorf
Agricultural Economics
Omar Abdel-Latief, Bhawna Bista, Frank Dooley, Kenneth Foster, Brandon Hollas, Todd Hubbs, Chris Hurt, Paul Preckel, Bradley Stutzman, Wallace Tyner
Agronomy
Ricardo Ariaz, Brad Joern, Lori Snyder
Animal Sciences
Sunday Adedokun, Layi Adeola, Todd Applegate, Matthew Claeys, Shawn Donkin, Patrick Gunn, Zhengyu Jiang, Scott Lake, Mickey Latour, Ronald Lemenager, Michael Neary, J. cott Radcliffe, Brian Richert, Allan Schinckel, Nicole Schmelz, Lauren Snyder, Alan Sutton, Catalina Troche
Botany and Plant Pathology: Charles Woloshuk
Graduate Student News :
Congratulations to the May 2009 graduates!
Uris Baldo Master of Science remaining in AGEC for his PhD
Felix Baquedano Doctor of Philosophy ERS/USDA
Phillip Blomeke MSN Topco Associates, Skokie, IL
Shellye Clark Master of Science remaining in AGEC for her PhD
Andres Garcia Doctor of Philosophy World Bank Young Professional
Liwei Lu Master of Science remaining in AGEC for her PhD
Carlos Mayen-Solorzano Doctor of Philosophy New Mexico State University
Fulgence Mishili Doctor of Philosophy Sokoine University, Tanzania
Griffin Moag Master of Science
David Ortega Master of Science remaining in AGEC for his PhD
Craig Rismiller Master of Science Capital One
Delphine Simon Master of Science returning to France
Firouzeh Taheripour MSN TBA
Amanda Mize has accepted a position as Credit Analysis with Hickory Point Bank in Decatur, IL.
Thought You Would Like to Know:
James Mintert, from Kansas State University and a Purdue alumnus, has been hired as the Assistant Director of Extension under Charles Hibberd. He will hold a tenure home and full professor status in Agricultural Economics. In August 2009 there will be a reception for him to welcome him to the department.
News from GTAP:
Twelfth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis
The Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) is a global network of researchers and policy makers conducting quantitative analysis of international policy issues. The goal of the project is to improve the quality of quantitative analysis of global economic issues within an economy-wide framework. GTAP is coordinated by the Center for Global Trade Analysis in the Department of Agricultural Economics and will be holding theTwelfth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile from June 10-12, 2009. This conference is being jointly organized by the GTAP Center, ECLAC and the Inter-American Development Bank and promotes the exchange of ideas among economists conducting quantitative analysis of global economic issues with particular emphasis placed on applied general equilibrium methods, data, and application.
Further information about this conference as well as all proceedings is available on the conference homepage of the GTAP website.
Contact information:
Meghan Alexander
megalex@purdue.edu
765-494-4267
News from Center for Food and Agricultural Business:
Oilwell Company Looks to Purdue for Sales Management Expertise
Forty National Oilwell Varco (NOV) employees learned processes for strategically approaching sales and highlighted individual leadership skills at their first session of the NOV-Purdue Sales Management Program: Building World Class Capabilities. Participants ranked the session 4.71/5.00 for overall quality. Read more.
Purdue Teams with Syngenta to Shape Future Leaders
Continuing a decade-long partnership with Syngenta, the center launched the fifth class of Agribusiness Leadership Plus at Purdue (ALPs). The class' 33 participants, consisting of Syngenta employees from around the globe, have completed two distance-delivered modules and three in-person sessions. Read more.
MS-MBA Program Featured in The Furrow
After spending a day at Purdue with MS-MBA students during an on-campus residency, award-winning author Dean Houghton crafted a story for John Deere's The Furrow. Every John Deere dealer in the country received a copy of the magazine, which highlighted our dual-degree, distance-delivered program. Read more.
Upcoming Programs
June 11-12 Precision Selling
Sept. 15-17 Structuring Decision: Innovating through Turbulence
To learn more or refer a colleague to one of our seminars, visit www.agecon.purdue.edu/cab.
News from Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE):
News from the Indiana Council for Economic Education: Long time ICEE Econ Camp participant, Michelle Foutz, has done it again. Michelle teaches economics at Carmel High School and has attended every Econ Camp since it began 10 years ago. A team of her students won the Indiana Economics Challenge competition and then won the regional competition in Baltimore, before advancing to New York on May 16-17 for the national finals - the final four! Her team didn't end up as the national champion like last year, but the team was a force to be reckoned with. ICEE thanks the many Ag Econ professors who have presented at ICEE programs for high school teachers such as the Econ Camp. The results have been outstanding!
Resources at Purdue :
PURE—Purdue University Research Expertise database—has evolved into INDURE—Indiana Database for University Research Expertise. PURE is outdated and will soon be retired. INDURE is supported through the state and Purdue. Plans are to continue INDURE upgrade and maintenance.
https://www.indure.org/index.cfm?InstitutionFilter=1
Travel, Speeches, Presented Papers:
Hertel, T.W. “Assessing the Global Land Use Impacts of Biofuels: Strengths and Limitations of the GTAP Framework”, testimony presented to the California Air Resources Board, April 23, 2009.
Hertel, T.W. “Climate Volatility and Poverty Vulnerability”, presented at the University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 22, 2009.
Hertel, T.W. “Climate Volatility and Poverty Vulnerability”, presented at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, April 21, 2009.
Farzad Taheripour, “Bio‐fuels, land use, and poverty” , Presented at: Washington Dialogue Series, Trade and Climate Change: Development Aspects of Climate Change Policies of OECD Countries, RFF, Washington DC, 5 May 2009.
Publications:
Ubilava, D. and K. A. Foster, (2009). “Quality Certification vs. Product Traceability: Consumer Preferences for Informational Attributes of Pork in Georgia”. Food Policy, 34(3), pp. 305-310.
Hertel, T. W., S. Rose and R. Tol (eds.) (2009). Economic Analysis of Land Use in Global Climate Change Policy. Abingdon: Routledge.
Governments as Cartel Victims: AAI Working Paper 09-03. (April 15, 2009). [http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/archives/files/AAI%20Working%20Paper%2009-03_052120091755.pdf]
Internship Opportunities:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/careers/intern_research.htm
http://www.fsdinternational.org/intlopps/programs/internships1
http://www.fcnl.org/young/intern.htm
http://www.uschamber.com/careers/internships/default
http://www.unausa.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvKRI8MPJpF&b=317257
WorldbankJob Announcements:
University of Alberta: Assistant Professor – Agribusiness Management
USDA-ERS-FED: Food Safety Economist
APHIS: Economist position on Policy Analysis www.usajobs.opm.gov
ERS: http://www.ers.usda.gov/AboutERS/Employment/OpportunitiesPage.htm
Career and Job Sites on the Internet:
| Purdue | http://www.purdue.edu/jobs |
| AAEA Job Posting | http://www.aaea.org/classifieds/ |
| Academic Employment Network | http://www.academploy.com/ |
| Academic Position Network | http://www.apnjobs.com/ |
| Agriculture Career Connection | http://www.ag-biz.com/ |
| Community Colleges, misc | http//www.aacc.nche.edu/ |
| Chronicle of Higher Education | http://chronicle.com/jobs/ |
| Congressional Budget Office | http://www.cbo.gov |
| Education Jobs Page | http://www.nationjob.com/education |
| Employment/Resume Posting | http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/employment.html |
| EPA | http://jobs.quickhire.com/scripts/epa.exe |
| Foreign Ag Service | http://www.fao.org/VA/vac_en.htm |
| Government Career | http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/ |
| National Job Bank | http://www.jobs.joe.org |
| USDA, Ag Research Service | http://www.ars.usda.gov/careers/docs.htm?docid=11797 |
For further information, see the Job Posting File in Room 651
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