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• Funding Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
• Papers and Presentations

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Department Seminars / Workshops

Bob R. Holdren Memorial Lecture

Larry Karp, University of California at Berkeley, "Climate policy when the distant future matters: Catastrophic events with hyperbolic discounting," Monday, April 30, 4:00 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/calendar/papers/LarryKarp.pdf

Seminar for Graduate Students

Nick Paulson and Junjie Sun, ISU, "Searching for the Right Job: Employment Insights for Graduate Students," Thursday, May 3, 10:00 am, 368A Heady Hall

Funding Opportunities

Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)

Fulbright Scholar Program
http://www.cies.org

Environmental Protection Agency

Strategic Agricultural Initiative Program
Deadline: June 5, 2007
http://www.epa.gov/region07/economics/r7_grant_opportunities.htm

Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA

Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG)
Deadline: May 31, 2007
http://www.ia.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/CIG.html

Organization for Economic and Cooperation Development (OECD)

Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agriculture Systems
Deadline: September 30, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/OECDFellowship.pdf

Rural Cooperative Development Grant Program (RCDG)

Deadline: June 8, 2007
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/coops/rcdg/rcdg.htm

Smith Richardson Foundation

Domestic Public Policy Fellowship Program
Proposal deadline: June 29, 2007
http://www.srf.org/grants/Domestic_Public_Policy_Fellowship.php
International Security and Foreign Policy Program
Proposal deadline: June 29, 2007
http://www.srf.org/grants/JF_Domestic_Description.php

Job Opportunities

University of Idaho

Assistant Professor, Natural Resource Economics
Deadline: August 16, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UInaturalresource.pdf
Assistant Professor, Community Economic Development
Deadline: August 16, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UIcommunitydevelopment.pdf

University of Puerto Rico

Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics
Deadline: May 15, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UPR1.pdf

Papers and Presentations

Wallace E. Huffman

(with Tubagus Feridhanusetyawan) "Migration, Fixed Costs, and Location-Specific Amenities: A Hazard Analysis for a Panel of Males," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(May 2007):368-382.