Announcements for Friday, November 16, 2007
Announcements
- Operating Hours November 19-23
Rooms 260 and 266 Heady will close at 4:00 pm on Monday and Tuesday, November 19 and 20, and noon on Wednesday, November 21, for the Thanksgiving break. University offices will be closed November 22-23.
- Faculty Senate and the Ames-ISU YMCA to Host the 8th Annual Giving Tree
Roster Updates
- Office Moves
Abidoye, Babatunde, 180B/4-5895_x000d_
Andrian, Leandro, 180B/4-5895_x000d_
Veyssiere, Luc, 180B/4-5895 - Visiting
Shen, Manhong, Visiting Scholar, 368G/4-5699, smhsmh@iastate.edu
External Seminars and Workshops
- 2nd Annual NRI Social Science Stakeholder Workshop
Web-based workshop (online), November 27, 2007_x000d_
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/business/reporting/stakeholder/ec_stakeholder... - Bioethics Program Lecture
Dr. Peter Yu, Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law and founding director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University, "Cultural Relics, Intellectual Property and Intangible Heritage," Thursday, November 29, 4:30 pm, Ensminger Room, Kildee Hall
Conferences and Calls for Papers
- 6th INFINITI Conference on International Finance
"Micro and Macro Foundations of International Financial Integration"_x000d_
The University of Dublin/Trinity College, June 9-10, 2008_x000d_
Paper submission deadline: January 31, 2008_x000d_
http://www.tcd.ie/iiis/pages/events/infiniti2008new.php - Bayesian Inference in Econometrics and Statistics
University of Chicago, May 2-3, 2008_x000d_
Abstract deadline: March 14, 2008_x000d_
http://www.olin.wustl.edu/faculty/conferences/sbies/ - Fifth Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing
Chicago, Illinois, April 27-30, 2008_x000d_
Submission deadline: December 12, 2007_x000d_
http://www.bio.org/worldcongress2008/ - Soil and Water Conservation Society 2008 Annual Conference
Tucson, Arizona, July 26-30, 2008_x000d_
Abstract deadline: December 3, 2007_x000d_
http://www.swcs.org/en/conferences/2008_annual_conference/call_for_papers/
Funding Opportunities
- Bank of Italy
Research Fellowships for Economists_x000d_
http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/current/joe_full_adv.php?adnum=20071101501&pos... - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Education Grants_x000d_
Deadline: December 20, 2007_x000d_
http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/grants.html - California Department of Food & Agriculture
Pierce's Disease Research Proposals_x000d_
Deadline: January 15, 2008_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/PiercePropo...
Job Opportunities
- State University of New York, Cobleskill
Assistant/Associate Professor, Agricultural Business/Animal Science_x000d_
Deadline: December 7, 2007_x000d_
http://www.cobleskill.edu/hrjobsAGBUSINESS110507.html - Oklahoma State University
Assistant/Associate Professor, Production Economics_x000d_
February 15, 2008_x000d_
http://www.agecon.okstate.edu/jobs/Prod_Econ_Position_Announcement.pdf - Duke University
Offshoring Research Associate, Fuqua School of Business _x000d_
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail&nr=6164 - University of Pittsburgh
Assistant Professor, International/Macro Economist_x000d_
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail&nr=6160 - Sam Houston State University
Assistant Professor, Quantitative Methods_x000d_
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail&nr=6158 - International Center for Research on Women, Washington, DC
Research Assistant/Associate, PREG_x000d_
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail&nr=6148 - University of Wyoming
Assistant Professor, Production Economics/Systems Analysis_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/UofWyoming.pdf - Georg-August-University, Gottingen, Germany
Tenure-track Professorships (various positions)_x000d_
Deadline: December 3, 2007_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/GeorgAugust... - U.S. Department of Justice
Economists, Industrial Organization/Applied Microeconomics/Applied Econometrics_x000d_
http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/current/joe_full_adv.php?adnum=200710279001&po... - Competition Policy Associates
Economists (various locations)_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/COMPASS.pdf - University of Florida
Professor and Chair, Food and Resource Economics Department_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/UofFlorida.... - Oklahoma State University
Assistant Extension Specialist, Beef Cattle Value Enhancement_x000d_
Deadline: December 15, 2007_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/AsstExtSpec...
Papers and Presentations
- Wallace Huffman
(with Swords, K., J. Ye, C. Richael, H. Yan, T. Weeks, and C. Rommens.) "Intragenic Options for Specialty Crop Improvement: High Health and Quality Without Foreign DNA." Presented at the Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference (ABIC), Harnessing Science for the Evolving Consumer: The Fit of Agricultural Biotechnology, Calgary, Alberta, September 23-26, 2007 and at the Danforth Center Fall Symposium, Frontiers in Transgenesis, St. Louis, MO, September 26-28, 2007.


