Department of Economics

Announcements for Friday, May 16, 2008

Conferences and Calls for Papers

67th International Atlantic Economic Conference
Rome, Italy, March 11-14, 2009_x000d_
http://www.iaes.org/conferences/future/Rome_67/index.htm
Eleventh Annual International Conference of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences
Honolulu, Hawaii, September 25-27, 2008_x000d_
Proposal deadline: July 15, 2008_x000d_
http://www.asbbs.org/call__int.html

Funding Opportunities

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, USDA
Supplemental and Alternative Crops Competitive Grants Program_x000d_
Deadline: June 9, 2008_x000d_
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/alt_crops.html
2008 William Applebaum Memorial Scholarship
Deadline: June 1, 2008_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/2008FDRSAward.pdf

Job Opportunities

Texas Tech University
Professor, Agricultural Competitiveness Endowed Chair_x000d_
Deadline: June 15, 2008_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/AgCompChair.pdf

Papers and Presentations

Wallace Huffman
"Willingness to Pay for Genetically Modified Products with Increased Levels of Antioxidants," presented at the Symposium on Food Consumption and Health: Economic Research in Consumer Behavior, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway, May 8, 2008.