Department of Economics

Announcements for Friday, March 7, 2008

Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9, so turn your clocks ahead one hour on Saturday night.

Sivesind Memorial Lecture
Kathleen Segerson, University of Connecticut, "Eliminating Polluting Products: Voluntary vs. Regulatory Approaches," Monday, March 10th, 4:00 pm, 368A Heady Hall_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/calendar/papers/VA%20vs%20Regulation%20Oct%2...

2008 Annual Conference of the Soil and Water Conservation Society
Tucson, Arizona, July 26-30, 2008_x000d_
Registration deadline: June 14, 2008_x000d_
http://www.swcs.org/en/conferences/2008_annual_conference/
Advancing Renewables in the Midwest Conference
Ames, Iowa, March 25, 2008_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/AdvancingRenewables.pdf
First Annual Conference of the India Society of Agri-Business Management
Bangalore, India, September 25-27, 2008_x000d_
Abstract deadline: March 31, 2008_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/ABMConference.pdf

Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development , ISU
Grow Iowa Values Fund Grants Competition_x000d_
Deadline: April 18, 2008_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/GIVFRFP.pdf
University of Missouri at Columbia
National Needs Fellowships in Bioenergy Economics_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/MissouriDoctoralFellowships.pdf
Higher Education for Development
Requests for Applications_x000d_
http://www.hedprogram.org/CurrentRFAs/tabid/66/Default.aspx
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Pollution Prevention Grant Program_x000d_
Deadline: April 16, 2008_x000d_
http://www.epa.gov/p2/pubs/grants/ppis/2008rfpp2grant.htm
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, USDA
National Research Initiative - Agricultural Prosperity for Small and Medium-Sized Farms_x000d_
Deadline: June 5, 2008_x000d_
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/smallfarmsagriculturalprosperitynri.cfm

Christian-Albrechts-University
Professor, Consumer/Health Economics_x000d_
Deadline: April 15, 2008_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/ChristianAlbrechtsUniv.pdf
University of Missouri
Agricultural Business Specialist_x000d_
Deadline: March 18, 2008_x000d_
http://extension.missouri.edu/careers/positionannouncements/SCAgBus037.html
Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency
Agricultural Program Analyst_x000d_
Deadline: March 17, 2008_x000d_
http://federalgovernmentjobs.us/jobs/Agricultural-Program-Analyst-113731...

Wallace and Sonya Huffman
"Over-Nutrition and Changing Health Status in High Income Countries." Economics and Statistics Seminar, Middlesex University Business School, Middlesex, UK, February 26, 2008.
Leigh Tesfatsion
(with Bart Wilson). "Agent-Based Computational Economics and Behavioral Modeling: Potential Applications to Energy Science and Technologies." Invited Symposium, Department of Energy - National Renewable Energy Laboratory (DOE-NREL), Washington, D.C., February 22, 2008._x000d_
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(with Lynne Kiesling). "A Test Bed for the Integrated Experimental Study of Retail and Wholesale Power Market Designs: Seaming GridLab-D with AMES." Tele-Seminar and Webcast, sponsored by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington, February 15, 2008._x000d_
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"Agent-Based Test Beds for Power Industry Research, Teaching, and Training." Tele-Seminar and Webcast, sponsored by the Power Systems Energy Research Center (PSERC), Cornell University, February 5, 2008.