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

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Announcements

Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9, so turn your clocks ahead one hour on Saturday night.

Department Seminars / Workshops

Sivesind Memorial Lecture

Kathleen Segerson, University of Connecticut, "Eliminating Polluting Products: Voluntary vs. Regulatory Approaches," Monday, March 10th, 4:00 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/calendar/papers/VA vs Regulation Oct 07.pdf

Conferences and Calls for Papers

2008 Annual Conference of the Soil and Water Conservation Society

Tucson, Arizona, July 26-30, 2008
Registration deadline: June 14, 2008
http://www.swcs.org/en/conferences/2008_annual_conference/

Advancing Renewables in the Midwest Conference

Ames, Iowa, March 25, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/AdvancingRenewables.pdf

First Annual Conference of the India Society of Agri-Business Management

Bangalore, India, September 25-27, 2008
Abstract deadline: March 31, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/ABMConference.pdf

Funding Opportunities

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, USDA

National Research Initiative - Agricultural Prosperity for Small and Medium-Sized Farms
Deadline: June 5, 2008
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/smallfarmsagriculturalprosperitynri.cfm

Higher Education for Development

Requests for Applications
http://www.hedprogram.org/CurrentRFAs/tabid/66/Default.aspx

Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development , ISU

Grow Iowa Values Fund Grants Competition
Deadline: April 18, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/GIVFRFP.pdf

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Pollution Prevention Grant Program
Deadline: April 16, 2008
http://www.epa.gov/p2/pubs/grants/ppis/2008rfpp2grant.htm

University of Missouri at Columbia

National Needs Fellowships in Bioenergy Economics
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/MissouriDoctoralFellowships.pdf

Job Opportunities

Christian-Albrechts-University

Professor, Consumer/Health Economics
Deadline: April 15, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/ChristianAlbrechtsUniv.pdf

Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency

Agricultural Program Analyst
Deadline: March 17, 2008
http://federalgovernmentjobs.us/jobs/Agricultural-Program-Analyst-1137311.html

University of Missouri

Agricultural Business Specialist
Deadline: March 18, 2008
http://extension.missouri.edu/careers/positionannouncements/SCAgBus037.html

Papers and Presentations

Leigh Tesfatsion

(with Bart Wilson). "Agent-Based Computational Economics and Behavioral Modeling: Potential Applications to Energy Science and Technologies." Invited Symposium, Department of Energy - National Renewable Energy Laboratory (DOE-NREL), Washington, D.C., February 22, 2008.

(with Lynne Kiesling). "A Test Bed for the Integrated Experimental Study of Retail and Wholesale Power Market Designs: Seaming GridLab-D with AMES." Tele-Seminar and Webcast, sponsored by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington, February 15, 2008.

"Agent-Based Test Beds for Power Industry Research, Teaching, and Training." Tele-Seminar and Webcast, sponsored by the Power Systems Energy Research Center (PSERC), Cornell University, February 5, 2008.

Wallace and Sonya Huffman

"Over-Nutrition and Changing Health Status in High Income Countries." Economics and Statistics Seminar, Middlesex University Business School, Middlesex, UK, February 26, 2008.