Department of Economics

Announcements for Friday, July 28, 2006

Announcements

Junjie Sun Receives Two Special Honors
Junjie Sun was selected from among a world-wide pool of graduate student applicants for admission to the computational economics summer school (ICE06) held the week of July 17 by the Institute on Computational Economics, sponsored by the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. In addition, all participants were invited to give a poster presentation of their computational economics research in progress and Junjie was one of three winners chosen by the ICE06 directors.

Roster Updates

Graduate Student Moves
Many current graduate students moved to new offices over the summer. For updated information, check the roster on the department web page or intranet. New graduate students have been added as well. _x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/people/roster/roster.asp_x000d_
https://intranet.econ.iastate.edu/
Faculty Moves
Rajesh Singh, 281 Heady, 294-5213_x000d_
Ike Van de Wetering, 280B Heady, 294-5888

External Seminars and Workshops

From a Green to an Ever-green Revolution
1148 Gerdin Building, Thursday, August 3, 2006_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/SwaminathanSeminar.pdf

Conferences and Calls for Papers

2006 Biobased Industry Outlook Conference
Ames, Iowa, August 28-29, 2006_x000d_
http://www.bioeconomyconference.org/
Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq: Policies, Programs and Projects
Boston, Massachusetts, July 23-26, 2007_x000d_
http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/rsci/index.html