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• Announcements
• Department Seminars / Workshops
• External Seminars / Workshops
• Funding Opportunities
• Job Opportunities

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Announcements

Liesl Eathington To Receive CYtation Award

In recognition for taking a leading role in the revitalization of the Economics and Sociology departments abilities to provide information and assistance to Iowa citizens, communities and public officials.
The ceremony will take place on Tuesday, February 19, at 4:00 p.m. in 1750 Beardshear Hall.

Department Seminars / Workshops

Labor and Trade Recruiting Seminar

Stefania Garetto, University of Chicago, "Input Sourcing and Multinational Production," Friday, February 15, 11:15 a.m., 368A Heady Hall

External Seminars / Workshops

Economics Alum to Present College of Ag and Life Sciences Sesquicentennial Lecture

Lowell Catlett, Regents professor and dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics at New Mexico State University, "Dreaming the Future: Trends and Technologies for the Next 150 Years," Thursday, February 21, 7 p.m., Memorial Union Sun Room
http://www.ag.iastate.edu/aginfo/news_detail.php?var1=393

Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 9 to August 1, 2008
Deadlines: April 1 and April 15, 2008
http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/srl/srl.html

Funding Opportunities

Environmental Protection Agency

Pollution Prevention Information Network Grants Program
Letter of intent deadline: March 3, 2008
Application deadline: March 17, 2008
http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/p2home/pubs/grants/ppin/ppin08.htm

PERC

Graduate Fellow
http://www.perc.org/enviroprog/students/grad/basics.php

THE 2008 COMPASS LEXECON Prizes

Deadline: February 29, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/COMPASSLEXECONPrizes.pdf

USDA Rural Development

Rural Business Opportunity Grants (RBOG)
Deadline: March 31, 2008
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/busp/rbog.htm

Job Opportunities

North Carolina State University

Lecturer, Agricultural Law
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/NCStateLecturer.pdf

Pittsburg State University

Instructor
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/PittsburgInstructor.pdf

Salisbury University

Assistant Professor, Economics
Deadline: March 17, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/SalisburyUniv.pdf

Texas Tech University

Assistant Professor, Agribusiness/Marketing
Deadline: April 1, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/TexasTech.pdf

University of Alberta

Professor, Environmental Economics
Deadline: April 1, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UofAlberta3.pdf

USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

International Agricultural Internship Program
Deadline: March 3, 2008
http://www.fas.usda.gov/admin/student/iaip/index.asp