This coming January the International Foundation of Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) will sponsor its 18th Visiting Graduate Student Workshop on Experimental Economics at Chapman University in (warm) Orange, CA. The seminar will open with a reception on the evening of Sunday, January 6 and run through Thursday, January 10, 2013.

Submissions of papers are now being accepted in all fields of economics to be presented at the The Missouri Economics Association and Washington University's Economics Graduate Students Conference. Completed manuscripts will be given priority, but abstracts will also be considered. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2012.

Find information on submitting papers and conference registration at: http://research.stlouisfed.org/conferences/moconf/2012/callforpapers.html

The computer committee is looking for a graduate student to coordinate IT workshop series in Fall 2012. Responsibilities include teaching an introductory workshop on departmental computer resources for graduate students, locating students willing to teach other workshops in the series (topics include Matlab, R, Stata, Gauss, etc. -- at the coordinator's discretion; these students are paid on hourly basis), and managing logistics of the series. Compensation is at the regular 1/2 TA rate (including tuition, benefits and regular TA salary). Contact oz9a@iastate.edu for details.

Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS) at Rochester Institute of Technology is accepting applications for September 2012 admission to the Sustainable Systems M.S. (http://www.rit.edu/gis/academics/ms-sustainability/ ). Since this is an interdisciplinary program, students of many education backgrounds are admitted, and likewise, coursework and research draws on numerous disciplines within science, engineering, and liberal arts.