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Announcements for Friday, March 18, 2011

News

  • Iowa State graduate programs ranked among nation’s best by U.S. News and World Report
  • Weekly media connections for the Department of Economics

    Dave Swenson, associate scientist in economics and staff member in ISU’s Regional Economics and Community Analysis Program, was interviewed by Ed Tibbits, a reporter with the Quad City Times, on the state's most recent jobs report and the pace of recovery -- focusing on the job losses occurring in local government. He was also interviewed by Staci Hupp, a reporter with The Des Moines Register, about local government employee earnings in Iowa and how benefit structures might differ from the private sector. And he was also interviewed by Angie Hunt, Ames correspondent, KCCI-TV, about whether manufacturing in general and rural manufacturing employment are starting to recover. Swenson reported that while manufacturing jobs in Iowa were up 5,000 from a year ago, they were still down 25,000 from the peak prior to the recession. 

    Chad Hart, assistant professor of economics and grain markets specialist, spoke with Gregory Meyer, the Financial Times, and Fran Howard, a freelance agriculture reporter, about the latest USDA reports.

    Courtesy of Jackie King, ISU News Service

Graduate Student Announcements

  • The 2011 Chicago-Argonne Initiative for Computational Economics Summer Workshop

    The 2011 Summer Workshop organized by the Chicago-Argonne Initiative for Computational Economics (ICE11) will be held at the University of Chicago from July 18 to July 30, 2011. ICE11 will be a two-week summer program for young scholars interested in applying computational methods to economics.

    http://ice.uchicago.edu/index.htm

     

Conferences and Calls for Papers

  • MCRSA Conference Paper Proposals Due April 1, 2011

    The Mid-Continent Regional Science Association will host their 42nd annual conference June 8-10, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan.  This is a call for regular papers and for students to participate in the M. Jarvin Emerson Student Paper Competition. 

     All persons wishing to submit an abstract or session proposal for the MCRSA conference are encouraged to do so electronically via e-mail to John Leatherman at jleather@k-state.edu by April 1, 2011.  The deadline for students wishing to participate in the student paper competition also is April 1, 2011.  Notification of paper acceptance will be made by April 15, 2011.

     Information can be found at the MCRSA Website: www.mcrsa.org

  • NBER's Universities' Research Conference, Call for Papers

    The National Bureau of Economic Research is continuing its series of Universities' Research Conferences in September.  We will hold a conference on Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective on September 23 and 24, 2011 in Cambridge, MA.  The program is being organized by Professor Price Fishback, Professor Kenneth Snowden and Professor Eugene White.

    For your information, a copy of the call for papers is attached and can also be found at http://www.nber.org/callforpapers/callpapers.html

  • 72nd International Atlantic Economic Conference - Call for Papers

    ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS WILL OPEN Tuesday, 15 March and will close Sunday, 1 May 2011.

    Submit online at http://www.iaes.org/conferences/past/Future/washington/index.htm.

Funding Opportunities

  • Funds Available for Information Technology for Instruction and for Student Needs

    The college’s Technology Advancement Committee has issued its annual Request For Proposals inviting applications for funds for computer-based instructional support and general IT needs of students. Approximately $80,000 will be available for 2011-12. The funding comes from the computer fees paid by students so all projects must show direct benefit to students. The RFP is available at: http://www.anslab.iastate.edu/tac/10-11/2011%20COA%20RFP.pdf

    Proposals are due on April 13. Questions about the proposal process should be directed to: Philip L. Spike, (Email:

    plspike@iastate.edu, Voice: 294-6030).