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• Announcements
• Department Seminars / Workshops
• Conferences and Calls for Papers
• Funding Opportunities
• Job Opportunities

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Current News

Announcements

Flu Shots

Flu shots are available again this fall at no cost to ISU employees. Shots will be available Nov. 4-21 (Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 205 TASF). You will need your ISU ID card or university ID number to receive your shot.

Students, post docs and scholars, who are covered under the ISU Student and Scholar Insurance Plan, are eligible to receive flu shots through the Thielen Student Health Center.
http://www.iastate.edu/news/announce/fs.php#flu

Department Seminars / Workshops

Department/Environmental Seminar

Kelly C. Bishop, Olin School of Business, Washington University at St. Louis, "A Dynamic Model of Location Choice and Hedonic Valuation," Friday, October 17, 3:40 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/calendar/papers/bishop_paper.pdf

Department Seminar

Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University, "The Political Economy of Non-Linear Capital Taxation," Monday, October 20, 3:40 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/farhi/files/polecon.pdf

I. W. Arthur Memorial Lecture

Juan Camilo Cardenas, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies, Harvard University, "Vertical Collective Action: Field Experiments on Watershed Management in Kenya, Thailand and Colombia," Wednesday, October 22, 4:00 pm, 368A Heady Hall

Human Resources Workshop

Wallace E. Huffman, Iowa State University, "Setting Incentives for Multitask University Professors: An Application of Principal-Agent Theory," Thursday, October 23, 4:00 pm, 468D Heady Hall

Conferences and Calls for Papers

2009 National Extension Risk Management Education Conference

Reno, Nevada, March 31-April 1, 2009
Proposal deadline: November 19, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/ExtRiskManagementConf.pdf

2010 NAREA Conference Workshop

Proposal deadline: December 1, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/2010NAREAConference.pdf

84th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International

Vancouver, British Columbia, June 29-July 3, 2009
http://www.weai.org/

Annual Meeting of SCC-76, Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture

Galveston, Texas, March 19-21, 2009
Submission deadline: January 15, 2009
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/SCC76call.pdf

NEC-63 / FAMPS Spring 2009 Conference

San Diego, California, February 1-3, 2009
Abstract deadline: December 1, 2008
http://commodity.aem.cornell.edu/nec63/meet.htm

Funding Opportunities

George Mason University

Robert A. Levy Fellowship in Law and Liberty
Deadline: April 1, 2009
http://www.law.gmu.edu/admissions/levy_fellowships

National Pork Board

General Request for Proposals - 2009
Deadline: November 18, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/NPBRFP2009.pdf

Job Opportunities

Bard College, New York

Assistant Professor, Financial Economics/Microeconomics/Industrial Organization
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail&nr=7500
Assistant Professor, Macroeconomic Theory/Policy
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail&nr=7499

Central College

Assistant Professor
Application deadline: December 1, 2008
http://www.central.edu/jobseekers/positions/08AsstProfECON.html

Cooperative State, Research, Education, and Extension Service

Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA), one year opportunity
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/CSREESIPA.pdf

University of Cincinnati

Assistant Professor, Macroeconomics
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail&nr=7485
Assistant Professor, Microeconomics
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail&nr=7486

University of Connecticut

Postdoctoral Fellow
Deadline: November 3, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UofConnPostdoc.pdf

University of Massachusetts

Assistant Professor, Econometrics
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UofMassAsstProfEcono.pdf
Assistant Professor, Experimental Economics and Public Policy
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UofMassExperimental.pdf
Assistant Professor, Industrial Organization/Managerial Economics
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UofMassIO.pdf

University of Texas

Assistant/Associate Professor, Economics
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail&nr=7508

University of Wyoming

Endowed Chair in Community Development
Deadline: March 1, 2009
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UofWyomingEndowedChair.pdf