Keeping Track
January 2011
Calendar of Events:
January 10 |
Classes begin |
Congratulations and Names in the News:
A visiting scholar from Turkey, Hasan DUDU, is arriving January 14. He will be in the department for one year and will be collaborating with Dr. Wallace Tyner on several projects.
December graduates:
Benoit Delbecq PhD
Yuanlong Ge PhD
Parwin Hamidi MS
Gustav Helmers PhD
Amanda Leister PhD
Chen Liu MS
Rafiullah Rahimzai MS
Stephanie Rosch MS
Danielle Urick MS
Monika Verma PhD
Bruce Erickson led a group of 15 crop management and pest management academic and business professionals from across the United States and Canada December 8 and 9 in Chicago in updating the Performance Objectives for the International Certified Crop Adviser (CCA) program. The objectives guide continuing education for the more than 13,000 CCAs in North America, and set the base level of expectation for the CCA exams that are offered twice yearly.
News from Center for Food and Agricultural Business:
Center Debuts New Program: Agribusiness Finance for Non-Finance Managers
Agribusiness managers from across the country gathered December 13-16 at Purdue for the inaugural offering of Agribusiness Finance for Non-Finance Managers. Designed to build on participants’ existing managerial experience, the program exposed them to the process of running a business from a core of financial management.
Participants learned to evaluate financial statements, interpret balance sheets and analyze profitability. They also discovered how thinking like a CFO will help them in daily business interactions, and how financial management concepts apply to broader company goals, the industry and the marketplace.
“The course helped me understand the financial implications of every change in the operational and financial metrics of a company,” said one participant. “The high-level discussion helped facilitate learning, and the case study allowed me to work through numbers with a real company. This course will definitely help me make better business decisions.”
The next offering of Agribusiness Finance for Non-Finance Managers will be June 27-30, 2011, at Purdue. More information is available here.
Center Staff Attend ASTA Expo to Promote Programs Off Campus
Program Managers Betty Jones-Bliss and Aissa Good attended the American Seed Trade Association’s Corn & Sorghum and Soybean Seed Expo in Chicago in early December to promote the center’s annual ASTA Management Academy. The academy challenges seed industry professionals to think strategically and expand their knowledge base. The 2010 ASTA Management Academy attracted 53 participants from the United States, Mexico and Austria. The 2011 offering, which marks the 24th year of the academy, will be held February 2-March 4 at Purdue. More information is available here.
Center Highlights Programs at Conferences, Expos
Recruitment is underway for next year’s MS-MBA in Food and Agribusiness Management cohort. A few students are already registered for next year’s class. Approximately a dozen people are studying for the GMAT, and Program Manager Luanna DeMay hopes to have a full class of 25 before the program starts in August.
As part of her recruitment efforts, DeMay attended the ARA Annual Conference in Palm Springs, California. The theme of the booth at the conference was Give it Your Best Shot. The booth featured an interactive putting green, and participants could enter their business card for a chance to win an Odyssey putter. Jeff Garlich, a senior product manager at John Deere in Iowa, won the putter. Danielle Quirk, event manager, was also on hand to promote non-degree programs, including the center’s ARA Management Academy, to be held February 1-3, 2011, at Purdue. The center generated more than 150 leads from the conference.
DeMay will also be recruiting for the MS-MBA program at the College of Ag Fish Fry on Saturday, February 5, held in the Toyota Blue Ribbon Pavilion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. She will also have a booth at the Indiana Agribusiness Conference and Expo. The exposition, which is sponsored by the Agribusiness Council of Indiana, will take place on January 26 and 27 at the Sheraton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites in Indianapolis.
News From the Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE):
ICEE received a grant from Chase through the Council for Economic Education (www.councilforeconed.org) to implement personal finance in middle and high school courses in two metropolitan Indianapolis school corporations – MSD Perry and MSD Pike Townships. Jeff Sanson will be leading this initiative. Jeff is currently finalizing an original online personal finance curriculum that is a part of a previous Chase grant.
ICEE, partnering with the Purdue College of Education and the Ball State Center for Economic Education, received a grant from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education to implement economics and personal finance into the curriculum of Randolph County schools. Teachers will develop curriculum units in an intensive, two-week summer graduate credit course and then will implement the units during the 2011-12 school year. BSU Center Director, DeVon Yoho, will spearhead the teacher training.
Congratulations to Shelly Surber, ICEE office administrator and “accountant,” for her promotion from Secretarial V to Administrative Professional Op Tech.
Travel, Speeches, Presented Papers:
Bruce Erickson, Director of Cropping Systems Management, was the keynote speaker at the Central Ohio Agronomy Day December 16 at Newark, discussing the economics and adoption trends of various precision farming technologies and their applications in Eastern Corn Belt cropping systems.
Alla Golub presented poster "Modeling the Heterogeneous Effects of GHG Mitigation Policies on Global Agriculture and Forestry" by Alla Golub, Benjamin Henderson, Tom Hertel, Steve Rose, Brent Sohngen. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 December, 2010.
Alla Golub presented paper “Effects of GHG Mitigation Policies on Livestock Sectors” by Alla Golub, Benjamin Henderson, Tom Hertel, Steven Rose, Misak Avetisyan and Brent Sohngen. Presented at the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, Berkeley, CA, December 12-14, 2010.
Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan gave a talk on “The Global Trade Analysis Project”, for the Network and Complex Systems Talk Series at the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, Indiana University Bloomington, USA, on December 6, 2010.
Gramig, B.M. Organizer, AAEA Principal Paper Session entitled “Climate Change Policy Design” at the Allied Social Science Association annual meeting in Denver, CO. Wally Tyner will preside over the session and serve as the discussant for all three papers.
Gramig, B.M. “Some unaddressed issues in proposed cap-and-trade legislation involving agricultural soil carbon sequestration,” AAEA Principal Paper. Allied Social Science Association annual meeting in Denver, CO. January 7, 2011.
Hertel, T., W., M. Verma and D. Lobell (2010) “Biophysical and Economic Uncertainty in the Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture”, presented at the American Geophysical Union meetings, San Francisco, December 14, 2010.
Hertel, T., W. (2010) “Estimating the Gains from Trade due to Variety: Discussion”, presented at the 30th Anniversary celebration of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, Berkeley, CA, December 12, 2010.
Juan Sesmero has two papers accepted to the 2011 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) conference. The two papers are: "Economic and Marketing Efficiency Among Corn Ethanol Plants", with Richard Perrin and Lilyan Fulginiti "Sustainability of Corn Stover Use for Biomass"
David Ortega will present his paper (co-authored with H. Holly Wang, Nicole Olynk, Laping Wu and Junfei Bai) "Using Choice Experiment Methods to Study Chinese Consumers' Trust on Food Safety Attributes" at the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) Meetings in Denver CO, January 7, 2011.
Wally Tyner will be speaking at the Legislative Ag Chairs Summit in Phoenix, AZ on January 14 on the California low carbon fuel standard.
Wally Tyner and Ismail Ouraich will be traveling to Rabat, Morocco, the week of January 17 for a workshop on Climate Change Impacts on Moroccan Agriculture.
News from AGEC Graduate Students:
The GSO had another successful year that culminated with recent officer elections last week. Before we begin the year anew and introduce our fresh leadership, we wanted to take a moment to thank our outgoing officer team for their hard work and service.
The new 2011 GSO Officers are:
President – Clay Davis
Vice President – Dan Sanders
Secretary – Mike Veldstra
Treasurer – Jena Thompson
Senate Rep. – Uris Baldos
Academic Chair – Patrick Ward
Social Chairs – Anna Lee Allcorn & Jordan Timberlake
Orientation Chair – Mike Jones
Intramural Sports Chair – Joe Longley
Congratulations to the newly elected officer team!
Publications:
Martin, Marshall A., First Generation Biofuels Compete, New Biotechnology, Elsevier Press, 27(5):596-608. November 30, 2010
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:
Principal Scientist for the Institute of Bioenergy Climate and Environment
Principal Scientist for the Institute of Food Production and Sustainability
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/about/offices/inst_bioenergy_climate_env.html.FAO – Ag Finance Officer based in Rome - Employment Section of the FAO website, at the following link: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/VA/pdf/2478AGS_en.pdf
University of California-Davis: Assist professor – applied econometrics, environmental
ERS: http://www.ers.usda.gov/AboutERS/Employment/OpportunitiesPage.htmUniversity of Vermont – Extension Assist Prof – Ag Financial Mgmt Specialist
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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