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

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Department Seminars / Workshops

Department Seminar

Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University, "Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy," Friday, April 17, 3:40 pm, 368A Heady
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/calendar/papers/HelpmanpaperInequality_and_Unemployment.pdf

Conferences and Calls for Papers

2009 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society

Boston, Massachusetts, June 4-7-2009
Registration deadline: May 9, 2009
http://www.bu.edu/econometrics/

Funding Opportunities

Bioeconomy Institute and ConocoPhillips Company,

Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass & Algae as a Bioenergy Feedstock
Deadline: July 1, 2009
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/COPRFP09.pdf

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

Global Change, Ultraviolet Radiation Monitoring Program (GCUVM)
Deadline: May 5, 2009
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/globalchangeultravioletradiationmonitoring.cfm
Smith-Lever Special Needs Funding
Deadline: May 26, 2009
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/smith_lever.html
Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship Grants Program Funding Opportunity (NNF)
Deadline: May 8, 2009
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/national_needs.html

National Science Foundation

Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP)
Proposal deadline: September 9, 2009
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Developing Global Scientists and Engineers (International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) and Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects (DDEP)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04036/nsf04036.htm

United States Department of Agriculture

Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI)
Deadline: April 15, 2009
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/specialty_crop.html

Papers and Presentations

Wallace Huffman

"Technology and Innovation in World Agriculture: Prospects over 2010 to 2019." Presented at the 2009 OECD Agricultural Outlook Conference, Paris, France, April 6-7, 2009.