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Announcements for Friday, August 31, 2012

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  • New photos now available

    Take advantage of an opportunity to update your department photo online and in our front case. Please contact Kristin Senty at ksenty@iastate.edu to set a time.

News

  • AAEA recognizes diversity of department talent

    The Department of Economics at Iowa State University was honored through numerous recognitions at the recent Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) 2012 Awards & Fellows Recognition Ceremony in Seattle, Washington, August 12 - August 14.

    John Schroeter, department interim chair and professor of economics said, “I was able to attend the awards program in Seattle and had the pleasure of seeing several of our department’s faculty and staff recognized for accomplishments in a broad range of categories. It was a very nice tribute to both the quality and the diversity of the work that we do in agricultural and applied economics.”

    Awardees include the following:

    • Professor Helen Jensen - AAEA Fellow
    • Professor Brent Kreider (shared award with two co-authors) - Outstanding Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy Article Award
    • Professor GianCarlo Moschini - Quality of Communication Award
    • Professor Wallace Huffman - Quality of Communication Award (Honorable Mention)
    • Professors Joseph Herriges, Catherine Kling, Dan Otto; John Downing (ISU) and Kevin Egan (University of Toledo) - Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis
    • Farm management team members Tim Eggers, Robert Wells, and Kelvin Leibold (shared with others from Universities of Missouri and Illinois) - Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Award
    • Agricultural Business Club - Outstanding Undergraduate Club and Academic Quiz Bowl Champions

    The AAEA, formerly the American Agricultural Economics Association, is the main professional association serving the interests of members working in agricultural and broadly related fields of applied economics.

  • McLaughlin honored at Fall Convocation 2012

    Diana McLaughlin (pictured left with Dean Beate Schmittman) was recently awarded with the Professional & Scientific Outstanding New Professional Award at LAS Fall Convocation 2012. She currently works as an Administrative Specialist III, a role which she took on in 2009, but started her career in the Department as a stenographer in 1973.


    Says McLaughlin, "When I started working as a stenographer, I was typing for fifteen individual faculty members daily, working on tests, papers, and correspondence. Everything was done with electric typewriters that had no correction functions. The electronic age has greatly change the way we do our work.


    "I appreciate the fact that I've had the opportunity to work up in the Department and to achieve new skills and sets of responsibilities. These changes have really given me a sense of accomplishment. I appreciate this acknowledgment," she says.


    Read the full list of convocation awardees at the following: http://www.las.iastate.edu/2012lasawards/

  • Tesfatsion's agent-based work featured in Nobel laureate Krugman's NYTimes blog

    Paul Krugman, 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, included a link to ISU Department of Economics Professor Leigh Tesfatsion's website on agent-based computational economics (ACE) in a recent opinion piece in The New York Times on the state of modern macroeconomic theory. Read the full piece at the following: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/neo-fights-slightly-wonkish-and-vague/

  • Campaign excitement at Heady Hall

    President Obama visited Iowa State University on Tuesday, August 28, 2012, as part of a campaign stop. His motorcade entry route for his speech outside of Curtiss Hall happened to pass by Heady Hall.


    Click on the following link to view the official slideshow of his visit: http://www.iastate.edu/main/12/obama/

  • GSA - Department of Economics fall 2012 picnic photos

    Enjoy photos from the recent Graduate Student Association-Department of Economics fall 2012 picnic! Click on the image left to view the full slideshow.

  • Hart and Ellis predict rise in 2013 grocery prices to reflect today's high grain costs

    Americans can expect to pay more for groceries due to high commodity prices driven by this year’s drought, but food prices likely won’t hit their peak for a few months. Corn prices have soared throughout the summer due to the historic drought that has withered much of the nation’s prime farmland, which has driven up feed costs for livestock and poultry producers. Those high prices will be passed onto consumers in the form of increased costs at the grocery store, but it will take between six and nine months for those increases to show up on store shelves.


    Chad Hart and Shane Ellis of the Department of Economics share their insights in this recent ISU News Service article written by Fred Love. Find the article at: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2012/08/29/grocerypricestorise

  • 2012 AAEA awards detail

    Wallace Huffman (George Norton and Luther Tweeten) received the 2012 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Quality of Communication Award Honorable Mention for their publication, “Investing in a Better Future through Public Agricultural Research,” CAST Commentary QTA2011-1, March 2011. This was awarded at the 2012 AAEA meetings in Seattle, August 12-14.

  • Graduate Student News & Updates

    Ranojoy Basu graduated from the Department with a PhD in economics in spring 2012. He is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS) at Iowa State University. His research focus will be on public economics and macroeconomics.

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