Department of Economics

Announcements for Friday, April 10, 2009

Conferences and Calls for Papers

2009 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society
Boston, Massachusetts, June 4-7-2009_x000d_
Registration deadline: May 9, 2009_x000d_
http://www.bu.edu/econometrics/

Funding Opportunities

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
Global Change, Ultraviolet Radiation Monitoring Program (GCUVM)_x000d_
Deadline: May 5, 2009_x000d_
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/globalchangeultravioletradiationmonitoring...
Smith-Lever Special Needs Funding_x000d_
Deadline: May 26, 2009_x000d_
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/smith_lever.html_x000d_
Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship Grants Program Funding Opportunity (NNF)_x000d_
Deadline: May 8, 2009_x000d_
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/national_needs.html
National Science Foundation
Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP)_x000d_
Proposal deadline: September 9, 2009_x000d_
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084&org=NSF&sel_org=N...
Developing Global Scientists and Engineers (International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) and Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects (DDEP)_x000d_
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04036/nsf04036.htm
United States Department of Agriculture
Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI)_x000d_
Deadline: April 15, 2009_x000d_
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/specialty_crop.html
Bioeconomy Institute and ConocoPhillips Company,
Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass & Algae as a Bioenergy Feedstock_x000d_
Deadline: July 1, 2009_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/COPRFP09.pdf

Papers and Presentations

Wallace Huffman
"Technology and Innovation in World Agriculture: Prospects over 2010 to 2019." Presented at the 2009 OECD Agricultural Outlook Conference, Paris, France, April 6-7, 2009.