Keeping Track
October 2009
Calendar of Events:
October 9 |
Reception for James Mintert |
Going Green Tip: Use soft-white compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) BECAUSE if every American household replaced one stand bulb with a CFL, we could save enough energy to power three million homes a year.
October Question: Who was the first world leader to send an email?
1)Ronald Reagan 2) Pope John Paul II 3) Queen Elizabeth II 4)President George H.W. Bush
Read on to find the answer.
Congratulations and Names in the News:
Marshall Martin was presented with the 2009 Special Boilermaker Award from the Purdue Alumni Association on September 19, 2009 at the football game at Ross Ade Stadium. The purpose of this Award, which was established in 1981, is to honor and recognize those people who have contributed significantly to the improvement of the quality of life and betterment of the educational experience of a substantial number of students at Purdue University.
Miriam Otoo received an African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) fellowship from the CGIAR Gender and Diversity program. This 2-year program is designed to fast-track the careers of African women delivering pro-poor research and development (R&D). This program is designed around establishing mentoring partnerships, strengthening scientific skills and developing leadership capacity. Dr. Joan Fulton will serve as mentor for Miriam Otoo through this program. Miriam Otoo and Dr. Joan Fulton attended the kick-off Mentoring and Orientation Workshop in Mombasa, Kenya on September 21-25, 2009. Miriam Otoo is to be congratulated on her success in this very competitive process where 60 fellows were selected from 496 applicants.
David Ortega was awarded the Food Distribution Research Society’s 2009 William Applebaum Memorial Scholarship Award for his M.S. thesis, “
The following undergraduates were recognized at the College of Agriculture Scholarship Banquet held September 27:
Charles Bartlett Ashley Mastela
Katharine Bartlett Nicholas Michel
Anna Bechman John Nieman
Laura Bohlander Alyson Parks
Kaley Bontrager Joshua Pottschmidt
Leslie Byers Alejandra Ramirez
Kelly Colbert Ryan Rippy
Landon Davenport Katie Robinson
Katelyn Desper Whitney Rogers
John Evans Jeremy Russell
Jay Fiechter Richard Shepherd
Jennifer Graham Aaron Smith
Lauren Haase Seth Smoot
Tim Hammer Brianne Stauffer
Derek Harrell Daniel Stauffer
Danielle Haynes Jamie Steiner
Emily Hirsch Blake Stowers
Keith Hoeing Hannah Strasser
Kimberly Hoeing Sarah Taylor
J.D. Hoffman Steven Tillman
Sarah Jordan Jackson Troxel
Luke Kaiser Marc Whetstone
Adam Kline Nathan Wyss
Kyle Maple
Thought You Would Like to Know:
Sawyer Sparks, AGEC undergraduate will be on the ABC sitcom, Shark Tank, September 29th. He is involved with the Entrepreneurship Certificate program at Purdue and was selected to represent the university at the club callout. Sawyer was then selected by the producers to appear on the television show and will attempt to get the millionaires’ money to market his product. Stay tuned . . . . .
AGEC faculty and alumni gathered in Beijing during the IAAE meetings held in August, 2009 for a Purdue reception and dinner. Photos from the reunion can be seen at:
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/news/beijing/
News from GTAP:
Center for Global Trade Analysis
The Center is pleased to have Nico van Leeuwen (http://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/network/member_display.asp?UserID=416) visiting for the next 6 months to help improve the commodity tax data for the GTAP 8 Data Base. Nico is on loan from the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
Contact information:
Meghan Alexander
megalex@purdue.edu
765-494-4267
News from Center for Food and Agricultural Business:
Upcoming Programs
Oct. 12-16 Strategic Agrimarketing
To learn more or refer a colleague to one of our seminars, visit www.agecon.purdue.edu/cab.
Research Goes International: Center Announces Partnership with Austral University in Argentina
The center has entered into a research partnership with Austral University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read more.
Bayer CropScience Sales Team Learns to Build Relationships with Large Farmers
In early September, 30 members of Bayer CropScience’s sales force came from across the United States to attend Serving the Needs of Today’s High Value Producers through Precision Selling, a program customized for Bayer CropScience. Read more.
Center Develops Webinars for Top Members of Pioneer’s Sales Force
Sixty-seven participants attended the first in a series of online seminars entitled "Building Business Success" that the center has developed in coordination with Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. The program, which was developed specifically for Pioneer's key salespeople, helps participants hone business, leadership, and decision-making skills. Read more.
Introducing the MS-MBA Class of 2009-2011
The new MS-MBA class began its experience with a residency session at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, held August 8–13. They will attend a Purdue residency the second week of November. Read more.
News from Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE):
ICEE Annual Awards Program
September 25, 2009, 10:30 -12:00 PM
Time is drawing near for our Annual Awards program, which will be held this year at the Indiana State House Rotunda and North Atrium. Classroom Exhibits at 10:30 AM followed by the awards presentations at 11:00 AM. We will recognize 5 outstanding teachers who have excelled in the teaching of economics. The teachers will also bring school displays and students. Everyone is welcome!
Travel, Speeches, Presented Papers:
Ben Gramig will travel to USDA-ERS in Washington, DC on October 22-23 to serve as a discussant at the annual meeting of PIs for the Program of Research in the Economics of Invasive Species Management (PREISM).
Hertel, T.W. “Climate Volatility and Poverty Vulnerability”, presented the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, September 15, 2009.
Hertel, T.W. “Analysis of Global Land Use Impacts of Corn Ethanol: Future Research Needs”, Presented to the USDA-USDOE Technical Advisory Committee on Biofuels, Washington, DC, September 15, 2009.
Hertel, T.W. “Key Issues in Analyzing the Global Poverty Impacts of Biofuel Mandates”, presented in a Mini-Symposium on Biofuels and the Poor, IAAE meetings, Beijing, August 18, 2009.
Hertel, T.W. and F. Taheripour. “Analyzing the Poverty Impacts of Biofuel Mandates”, presented in an Invited Panel Session on Biofuels, IAAE meetings, Beijing, August 21, 2009.
Liwei Lu will present at North American Power Symposium 2009 on October 5. The title is “Reliability Assessment of Indiana’s Electricity Generation System”.
Badri Narayanan G. gave a seminar on “Impacts of tariff liberalization on Indian auto industry: A Partial-General Equilibrium analysis” at Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India on 18th September, 2009.
John Connor, Determinants of EC Antitrust Fines for Members of Global Cartels, paper to be presented at the Institute of Competition Law's conference on "New Frontiers of Antitrust," Paris, February 15, 2010. [with Douglas J. Miller]
Wally Tyner will give a presentation on October 21, 2009, at Argonne for the CRC Workshop on Life-Cycle Analysis of Biofuels.
Publications:
John M. Connor. "Cartels & Antitrust Portrayed: Private International Cartels from 1990 to 2008:" AAI Working Paper #09‐06. (August 31, 2009). [Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1467310]
Ahmed, A., N. Diffenbaugh and T. Hertel, (2009) “Climate Volatility Deepens Poverty Vulnerability in Developing Countries”, Environmental Research Letters (4) doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/3/034004
Keeney, R. and T.W. Hertel (2009). "The Indirect Land Use Impacts of United States Biofuel Policies: The Importance of Acreage, Yield, and Bilateral Trade Responses", American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(4):895-909.
Ortega, David L., Wang, H.H., and Eales, James S. 2009. “Meat demand in China” China Agricultural Economics Review. Vol. 1 (4):410-419.
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:
USDA-ERS-FED: Food Safety Economist
APHIS: Economist position on Policy Analysis www.usajobs.opm.gov
University of Illinois: http://www.ace.illinois.edu/employment.aspx?typeid=1
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
Contact Lou Ann Baugh concerning information to be included in future issues of KT
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