Keeping Track
November 2010
Calendar of Events:
November 4 |
Department Seminar: Juan Sesmero, Kran 661, 3:30 pm
“Protection of Low-Income Households and Pareto Efficiency in
Cap and Trade”
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Congratulations and Names in the News:
Fernando Malapi and Ricardo Mejia were appointed as members of the Cropping Systems Management workshop at the 2010 Fulbright Global Food Security Seminar. As part of this workshop, they joined a group of 15 scholars from 14 countries to discuss the role of climate change on agriculture in developing countries –particularly in South Africa- and propose a global initiative for farming adaptation. The event, which took place in Lincoln, NE during October 20-24th, 2010, was sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (USDOS/ECA), administered by the International Institute of Education (IIE) and hosted by the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL).
Freddie Barnard, Paul Ellinger and Christine Wilson received the Gold Quill Award for 2010 from the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. This award is given for the outstanding Journal article “Measurement Issues in Assessing Farm Profitability through Cash Tax Returns”, Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, Vol. 73, No. 1 : pp. 207-217. The award will be presented November 2, 2010 in Orlando, FL.
Amanda M. Leister, C. Parr Rosson, III and Oral Capps, Jr. were selected for the 2010 Presidential Award for Excellence in Research and Communication by the Food and Distribution Research Society. The award recognizes their article, “Economic Effects of New Product Beef Promotion in Guatemala,” as the top article published in the Journal of Food Distribution Research in 2010.
News From Alumni:
Dr. Patrick D. O’Rourke was named the president-elect of the American Association of State Colleges of Agriculture and Renewable Resources (AASCARR). O’Rourke is a professor of agribusiness management in the Department of Agriculture at Illinois State University. He has been at Illinois State since 1983, serving on many departmental, college and university committees and task forces. He received his Ph.D. and master’s degrees from Purdue University and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois.
The purpose of AASCARR is to create and foster an organization of publicly supported non-land-grant colleges and universities offering baccalaureate degree programs in agriculture, food, renewable resources, and related disciplines. AASCARR also provides a vehicle for sharing ideas and exploring avenues that might be taken to solve common problems and explore common opportunities which will lead to strengthening the instructional, research, and service programs of agriculture, food, renewable resources, and related programs and foster their association, recognition, and support by the public.
Dr. Latisha A. Settlage, University of Arkansas – Fort Smith, was named a Bess and Hill Williams Endowed Professor. Also in the spring, she received the University's award for Most Outstanding Student Organization Faculty Adviser. This marked the third time Dr. Settlage received this student-nominated award for her work with Phi Beta Lambda which is the collegiate level of Future Business Leaders of America.
Dr. Daniel Settlage was promoted to Associate Professor, University of Arkansas – Fort Smith.
Ramiro Guzman, Class of 1995, will be honored as the 2010 Carr Scholar Alumnus. Employed at TempTRIP in Del Rio, Guzman supervises a temperature monitoring service for meat and agricultural products. He returned to the Del Rio area to work with radio frequency identification in cattle and implemented a similar system for all registered sheep in Mexico.
News from GTAP:
The Center for Global Trade Analysis held the 2010 Short Course in Dynamic Global Trade Analysis from October 8-13, 2010. The objective of this course was to introduce participants to a dynamic model designed for conducting global trade analysis in an applied general equilibrium setting; to provide participants with ample hands-on training with software that has been tailored for undertaking analysis using a dynamic recursive model; and to give participants the opportunity to interact with economists working on global trade and resource use issues using a dynamic modeling framework.
In total, 20 individuals from 12 different countries participated in this course.
For further information on this course, please visit: http://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/events/Dynamic_Courses/2010/
News from Center for Food and Agricultural Business:
Agribusiness Professionals Learn Marketing Strategies at Center Program
In early October, more than 30 agribusiness managers from 14 states, Argentina, and New Zealand attended Strategic AgriMarketing, a professional development seminar designed to provide a new lens for analyzing marketing problems. The program, led by Professor Dave Downey, executive director of the center, and Thomas Funk, professor emeritus of agricultural marketing at the University of Guelph, placed significant focus on marketing strategy and decision-making tools. A significant portion of the program involved case study analysis, which allowed the instructors to demonstrate the use of cutting-edge marketing tools. The next offering of Strategic AgriMarketing is set for October 10-14, 2011.
Purdue Shapes New Leaders, Continues Partnership with Syngenta
Continuing its strong partnership with Syngenta, the center launched the sixth class of Agribusiness Leadership Plus (ALPs) October 18 at the Beck Ag Center. The class participants, consisting of 33 Syngenta employees from around the globe, spent a week on campus learning both in the classroom and through field visits to locations such as Remington Seeds and Ceres Solutions. Throughout their 16 months in the program, the Syngenta managers will complete both distance-delivered and in-person modules held in California, Washington DC, Brazil, and Switzerland. With participants representing Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, The Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, this is the most diverse ALPs class and represents how this program has become truly global in its development and delivery.
National Conference for Agribusiness Coming This Month
The 2010 National Conference for Agribusiness will be held November 16-17 at the Purdue Memorial Union. The conference is designed to give agribusiness professionals an opportunity to explore how they can push boundaries and discover new ways to grow in various management areas. For more information and a conference schedule, visit www.agecon.purdue.edu/cab/programs/nca.
The center had an opportunity to highlight topics that will be discussed at the conference in AgriMarketing, Feedstuffs, and on other trade press magazine’s Web sites. For example, Professor Mike Boehlje provided his perspective on how companies can grow by focusing on sustainability, and Carolyn Wiethoff, associate professor at Indiana University, offered advice about recruiting and retaining Millennials, the next generation of agribusiness leaders.
News from Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE):
ICEE had a very successful Econ Camp, a popular economics training event for high school teachers of economics. It is held annually at Camp Tecumseh. Joan Fulton and Wally Tyner took part this year and made excellent presentations. There were 32 very enthusiastic teacher participants. To see photos of the Camp, go to ICEE’s web site: www.econed-in.org.
Harlan Day and Jeff Sanson made five presentations at the national conference of the Council for Economic Education (CEE), ICEE’s parent organization, which is based in New York.
Harlan Day is chairing a transition Task Force for CEE’s new incoming president and CEO, Nan Morrison. Harlan is also co-chairing a task force to formulate new affiliation guidelines for CEE’s Council and Center network.
Harlan was elected to serve on the national board of CEE.
ICEE’s popular Stock Market Game (SMG) program is off and running this semester with approximately 8,000 Hoosier students participating. For more information about the SMG programs, see www.econed-in.org/stockmarket.asp or contact Jeff Sanson in the ICEE office.
To see many other things ICEE is doing, check out ICEE’s Hoosier Economist: www.econed-in.org/PDF/HEFall10.pdf.
Travel, Speeches, Presented Papers:
November 9-10, Roman Keeney will travel to Ispra, Italy to participate in the European Commission Joint Research Centre’s expert consultation on “Critical Issues in Estimating ILUC Emissions.”
Presentations by Wally Tyner:
- “Key Drivers for Our Economic Models” presented at OECD workshop on Long Term Scenarios: Supporting Robust Policies for Global Agriculture and Food In Paris, October 21-22, 2010.
- “Transportation Infrastructure Implications of Development of a Cellulosic Biofuels Industry for Indiana” presented at the Indiana Logistics Summit, Indianapolis, October 27, 2010.
- “Alternative Policies and Pathways to our Energy Future,” the M. I. Wilson lecture at Montana State University, November 5, 2010.
Hertel, T., W. and S. Rosch (2010) “Climate Change, Agriculture and Poverty”, presented to the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, September 22, 2010.
Hertel, T., W. (2010) “The Global Supply and Demand for Land in 2050: A Perfect Storm?”, presented to the Cornell Institute for International Food and Agricultural Development, September 22, 2010.
Hertel, T., W. (2010) “A Spatially Explicit, Global, Open-Source Database for Analysis of Agriculture Forestry and the Environment”, presented to the Third Annual meeting of the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium, Washington, D.C., October 29, 2010.
Hertel, T., W. (2010) “The Global Supply and Demand for Land in 2050: A Perfect Storm?”, presented at The World Bank, October 28, 2010.
Publications:
Tyner, Wallace E., Sarah Brechbill, and David Perkis. “Cellulosic Ethanol: Feedstocks, Conversion Technologies, Economics, and Policy Options,” Congressional Service Report R41460, coordinated by Randy Schnepf, October 2010.
John M. Connor. The High Economic Costs of Cartels: Can Private Enforcement Help? SSRN Working Paper (October 17, 2010). (Preprint of Chapter 2, "The Impact of International Cartels," in The International Handbook on Private Enforcement of Competition Law, Albert Foer and Jonathan Cuneo (editors). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar (forthcoming 2010). [Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1694156]
John M. Connor, Recidivism Revealed: Private International Cartels 1990-2009: SSRN Working Paper (5/28/2010). [available 10/10/10 at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1688508]
Golub, A., T. W. Hertel, F. Taheripour and W. E. Tyner (2010). “Modeling Biofuels in General Equilibrium”, Chapter 6 (pp. 153-187) in J. Gilbert (ed.), Frontiers of Economics and Globalization Vol. 7, Emerald Publishing.
Strutt, A., T. W. Hertel and S. Stone (2010). “Exploring Poverty Impacts of ASEAN Trade Liberalization for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam”, Chapter 8 (pp. 217-245) in J. Gilbert (ed.), Frontiers of Economics and Globalization Vol. 7, Emerald Publishing.
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
Job Announcements:
Michigan State University:
Assistant/Associate Professor in International Development Economics (tenure system).
Assistant Professor in International Development Economics (tenure system) .
Assistant Professor in Agricultural Economics (tenure system) - economics of agricultural markets. .
Assistant Professor in Food Industry Management (tenure system) - food retailing, wholesaling, manufacturing, consumer marketing, or a related area. .
Assistant Professor in Global Agri-food Systems Development (tenure system) - management of global food systems. .
Fixed Term Assistant/Associate Faculty - International Development Economics - three fixed term assistant/associate professors to join its Food Security Group (FSG).
University of Arizona: Associate Director – Ag & Resource Econ & Water Res Research Center
Texas Tech University: Maddox Chairs in Energy
University of Vermont: Assist Prof – Ag Financial Mgmt (Extension)
University of Maryland at College Park: Faculty Extension Position -
Post-Doctoral Positions:
University of Alberta: Environmental and Resource Economics
Louisiana State University: Ag Center Postdoctoral Researcher
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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