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Weekly media connections for the Department of Economics

[Posted Jun 15, 2011]
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Information courtesy of Jackie King, ISU News Service.

Singerman moves on to domestic rice industry work in San Francisco Bay area

[Posted Jun 09, 2011]
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Ariel Singerman is one of several graduate students who will soon complete their course of studies in the Department of Economics. Learn what he has planned after his exit in August.

What degree did you complete? I completed a Ph.D. in Economics with emphasis in Agricultural Economics.

Weekly media connections for the Department of Economics

[Posted Jun 09, 2011]
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Information courtesy of Jackie King, ISU News Service.

Teaching Excellence awarded to four Department of Economics grad students

[Posted Jun 02, 2011]
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Four Department of Economics graduate students received the Teaching Excellence award for 2011. The recipeints are (pictured left to right) Kenneth Liao, Ryan Goodrich, Alicia Rosburg, and Wenwen Xi (not pictured).

Weekly media connections for the Department of Economics

[Posted Jun 02, 2011]
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Information courtesy of Jackie King, ISU News Service.


  • Ron Deiter was interviewed by Codi Vallery-Mills of The Cattle Business Weekly regarding the career potential available to students who obtain an agribusiness degree.

  • Bruce Babcock spoke with Jim Offner of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier about elimination of the ethanol subsidy and estimated job impacts. Anna Petherick, a writer with a UK academic journal called Good Nature, called about a recent CARD Policy Brief regarding ethanol subsidies and corn prices. Peter Green, a reporter with Bloomberg News, interviewed Babcock about the effect that feeding China's growing middle class will have on the U.S., especially on producing more water-thirsty crops.

  • Babcock also spoke to Peter Green, a reporter with Bloomberg News about the effect on U.S. agriculture of feeding China's growing middle class, especially on producing more water-thirsty crops.

  • Chad Hart, assistant professor of economics and grain markets specialist, spoke with John Pocock of Corn and Soybean Digest about crop plantings and markets. He talked to Frank Zaworski, ICIS, about crop plantings and fertilizer applications. And he was interviewed by Bruce Gellerman of the Living on Earth radio program about crop and food prices.

  • Dave Swenson spoke with Lynn Hicks, executive business editor of The Des Moines Register, regarding a new U.S. News & World Report ranking showing Des Moines first among the 10 cities with the highest real incomes.

    • CARD's Clarke receives the 2011 ACE Publishing Award of Excellence

    [Posted Jun 02, 2011]
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    Sandy Clarke was named the 2011 recipient of the ACE Publishing Award of Excellence. The Association for Communication Excellence (ACE) is an international association of communicators, educators, and information technologists working in the areas of agriculture, natural resources, and life and human sciences.

    Three Nobel Laureates hail from Department of Economics

    [Posted May 26, 2011]
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    ISU's Department of Economics holds the unique distinction of having three of its former faculty members who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

    Former Chair Theodore W. Schultz (1930-1943), featured in the photo left, won the prize in economic sciences in 1979. He later joined the faculty at the University of Chicago, and received the award for his research into economic development, with particular consideration for the problems of developing countries.

    Weekly media connections for the Department of Economics

    [Posted May 26, 2011]
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    Information courtesy of Jackie King, ISU News Service

    Graduate Student Summer Spotlight: Zhao interning in electrical markets at ISO-New England

    [Posted May 24, 2011]
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    Huan Zhao is a 6th year PhD student (soon to graduate) studying computational economics under Leigh Tesfatsion, with a research focus on electricity market rules design. This summer he's interning at ISO-New England in Holyoke, Massachusetts, working on simulation tools used for evaluating market performance with a demand response program.

    What do you hope to learn or gain from this internship? I hope I can learn the latest market rules used in the power industry. I will also be exposed to the different challenges this evolving market is facing.

    Weekly media connections for the Department of Economics

    [Posted May 20, 2011]
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    Courtesy of Jackie King, ISU News Service.

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