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In This Newsletter

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

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Current News

Announcements

Hart Wins Regents Award

Congratulations to Chad Hart on receiving the Professional and Scientific Regents Award for Staff Excellence. He will be recognized at the university's fall convcation and awards ceremony on Monday, September 10, 3:15 pm, in the Memorial Union Sun Room.

Moore and Thornburg to Receive LAS Awards

Congratulations to Brent Moore on receiving a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences P&S Excellence Award and to Deb Thornburg for receiving the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Merit Excellence Award. Both will be recognized at the LAS Fall Convocation on September 5, 4:00 pm, in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.

Department Seminars / Workshops

Department Seminar

Philippe Gagnepain, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain, "Contract Choice, Incentives, and Political Capture in Public Transit Operation," Monday, April 23, 4:00 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/calendar/papers/Gagnepain slides.pdf

Bob R. Holdren Memorial Lecture

Olivier Armantier, New York Federal Reserve Board, "Probability Misperception in Games: An Application to the Overbidding Puzzle," Wednesday, April 25, 12 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/calendar/papers/Armantier.pdf

Macroeconomics (Econ 693) Workshop

Youzhi Yang, ISU, "Equilibrium Matching and Termination," Wednesday, April 25, 3:40 pm, 368A Heady Hall

Bob R. Holdren Memorial Lecture

Amalia (Emie) Yiannaki, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Getting Away with Robbery? Patenting Behavior with the Threat of Infringement," Thursday, April 26, 3:40 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/Yiannaka_paper.pdf

External Seminars / Workshops

From Feedlot to Meat Counter: The Latest Research on the Impact of Ethanol

Webinar, Thursday, April 26, 2007, 2-3 pm CST
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/CMEWebinar.pdf

NSF Assistant Director to speak at UI

Dr. David Lightfoot, Assistant Director of the NSF Division of Behavioral, Social, and Economic Sciences (SBE), The Intertwinement of Fundamental Work in the Human and Physical Sciences, Tuesday, April 24, 4 pm, W151 John Pappajohn Business Building, Iowa City. A reception follows in the North Room of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Conferences and Calls for Papers

2007 World Congress

Creating Prosperity Through Investments in Agriculture
Saint Louis, Missouri, May 8-10, 2007
http://www.worldagforum.org/index.php?section=1

Agricultural Finance Review and China Agricultural University

Special Issue: Rural Credit in China
Deadline: August 31, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/RuralCreditinChina.pdf

Funding Opportunities

Institute of Science and Society

Mini Grant Competition
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/ISSMiniGrant.doc

Risk Management Agency, USDA

Non-Insurance Risk Management Program Partnerships
Application deadline: May 17, 2007
http://www.rma.usda.gov/news/2007/04/researchapkit.html

Rural Development, USDA

Value-Added Producer Grants (VAPG)
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/coops/vadg.htm

Job Opportunities

Penn State University

Assistant/Associate Professor, Agribusiness
Application deadline: June 29, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/PSUAgribusiness.pdf

University of Kentucky

Area Extension Specialist, Farm Management
Application deadline: May 15, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/Pennyroyal.pdf
Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UofKentuckyAgEconomics.pdf

Woods Hole Research Center

Economist, Environmental/Resource Economics
http://www.whrc.org/about_us/jobs.htm