Department of Economics

Announcements for Friday, February 24, 2006

Foreign Travel Grants
Applications for FY06 Foreign Travel Grants are due in 266 Heady on Wednesday, March 8, 2006._x000d_
http://www.facsen.iastate.edu/Images/2005FTGApplication.pdf
Outstanding Choices Article for 2005
Maureen Kilkenny and Robert Jolly will receive the Outstanding Choices Article for 2005 for their article entitled "Are Rural Credit Markets Competitive? Is There Room for Competition in Rural Credit Markets?" The award will be presented at the AAEA annual meetings this summer in Long Beach, California.
OSPA Training Sessions
Federal agencies will be required next year to change their grant announcement and grant application process to use the website Grants.Gov. The LAS College will sponsor two training sessions about the new application process and recommends the training for all current and future principal investigators. Because space is limited, RSVP to Venita Currie (vcurrie@iastate.edu)._x000d_
March 20, 2:30-3:30 pm, 302 Catt Hall_x000d_
March 23, 9:00-10:00 am, 302 Catt Hall_x000d_
http://www.grants.gov/
English Short Course
The Intensive English and Orientation Program will offer a short course for international graduate students, visiting scholars and faculty/staff, Tuesdays and Thursdays, March 7-May 2, 6:30-8 p.m. The cost is $150. http://www.ieop.iastate.edu

NIH Grant Workshop
The second workshop in a series on Research Grants Workshops will focus on the National Institutes of Health. Please note that the location has changed to Carver 101. http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/NIH_Workshop.pdf
Embracing Sustainability: Local to Global Research Perspectives
Campanile Room, Memorial Union, March 22, 2006_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/GPSAResearchForumPoster.pdf_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/GPSAForumRegistrationForm.pdf
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Lorna Michael Butler, Henry A. Wallace Endowed Chair in Sustainable Agriculture, and Mary Nyasimi-Riugu, Ph.D. student, Sustainable Agriculture, "Sustainable Livelihoods: Opportunities and Challenges for the Social Sciences," Wednesday, March 1, 12:10 pm, 8 Curtiss Hall_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/SustainableLivelihoods.pdf

Mid-Continent Regional Science Association/IMPLAN National User's Conference
Indianapolis, Indiana, June 8-10, 2006_x000d_
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/mcrsa/annual_conference.htm

Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship Grants Program
Deadline: April 28, 2006_x000d_
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1280
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA Region 7, Watershed Improvement Grant_x000d_
Deadline: May 11, 2006_x000d_
http://www.epa.gov/region07/economics/pdf/epa-r7wwpd-06-002.pdf
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award_x000d_
Deadline: April 7, 2006_x000d_
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/new_investigators/pathway_independence.htm
Faculty Research Exchange Visits
Application deadline: March 15, 2006_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/FacultyResearchExchangeVisits.pdf

The University of Adelaide
Professor, School of Economics_x000d_
Deadline: March 30, 2006_x000d_
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/jobs/11041.html
University of Calgary, Alberta
Svare Professorship in Health Economics_x000d_
Deadline: April 30, 2006_x000d_
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail;nr=4371
Purdue University
Research Assistant Professor, Environmental Economics_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/Purdue.pdf
Cash Grain Bids, Inc.
Commodity Market Analyst_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/files/CashGrainBi...