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

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Department Seminars / Workshops

Miller Lecture

Wendy Stock, Montana State University-Bozeman, "The Plateau in Maternal Labor Force Participation Rates," Friday, April 6, 4:00 pm, 368A Heady Hall

Macro/International Workshop

Kartik Athreya, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, "Unsecured Credit and Self-Employment," Tuesday, April 3, 12:00 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/calendar/papers/Athreya.pdf

Conferences and Calls for Papers

2007 Annual Conference of the Soil and Water Conservation Society

Tampa, Florida, July 21-25, 2007
http://www.swcs.org/en/swcs_conferences/2007_annual_conference/

2007 International Symposium on Financial Engineering and Risk Management (FERM2007)

Beijing, China, June 11-12, 2007
http://ferm2007.gsm.pku.edu.cn/

4th Annual BIGMAP Symposium

Ames, Iowa, April 18, 2007
http://www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/bigmap/home.html

Community Futures: The Small Town in the Bioeconomy

Ames, Iowa, April 10, 2007
Early registration deadline: April 3, 2007
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/bioeconomy/communityfutures/

Fourth Annual NET Institute Conference on Network Economics

Stern School of Business, NYU, April 20, 2007
http://www.NETinst.org/2007_conference.htm

Livestock Industry and Renewable Fuels: Dynamics, Opportunities and Challenges

Urbana, Illinois, May 23-24, 2007
http://www.livestockandrenewablefuels.uiuc.edu/

Ninth Annual Conference of the National Business & Economics Society

Honolulu, Hawaii, March 5-8, 2008
Abstract deadline: July 1, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/NBESHawaii.pdf

Funding Opportunities

Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)

Fulbright Scholar Program
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/Fulbright.pdf

Publication Subvention Grants Program

Deadline: April 16, 2007
http://www.vpresearch.iastate.edu/guidelines/pub_subvention.html

The NET Institute

Call for proposals for Summer 2007 grants
Deadline: May 25, 2007
http://www.netinst.org/call_for_proposals_2007.htm

Job Opportunities

Kansas State University

Extension Associate
Deadline: April 20, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/KStateExtAssoc.pdf

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Student Internship - Anniversay Conference Assistant
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/LeopoldIntern.pdf

Mississippi State University

Vice President for Research and Economic Development
http://www.jobs.msstate.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1175088459127

Missouri State University

Instructor
Deadline: April 16, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/MSUInstructor.pdf

Texas A&M University

Associate Professor/Professor and Extension Economist, Community Economic Development
Deadline: April 30, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/TexasA&MEconDev.pdf

University of California-Riverside

Open-rank position, Public Economics
http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/0611d/html/joe019.html

University of Kentucky

Program Coordinator, Farm Business Management Program
Deadline: April 2, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UKCoordinator.pdf

Papers and Presentations

Wallace E. Huffman

(with M. Rousu, J.F. Shogren, and A. Tegene) "The Effect of Prior Beliefs and Learning on Consumers' Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 63(2007):193-206.