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

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Current News

Announcements

Congratulations!

Bob Jolly and Stacey Noe received a second place award for their Ag Entrepreneurship Annual Report in the "Development Print Media Annual Reports" category at the National Agricultural Alumni and Development Association meetings held recently in Hawaii.

External Seminars / Workshops

Introduction to Learning-centered College Classrooms

Ames, Iowa, August 13-15, 2008
Registration deadline: July 25, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/ProjectLEARN.pdf

Conferences and Calls for Papers

67th International Atlantic Economic Conference

Rome, Italy, March 11-14, 2009
Submission dates: September 15-November 1, 2008
http://www.iaes.org/conferences/future/Rome_67/index.htm

Transition to a Bioeconomy: Environmental and Rural Development Impacts

St. Louis, Missouri, October 15-16, 2008
Paper deadline: August 1, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/EnvironandRural.pdf

Funding Opportunities

Department of Defense

Minerva Research Initiative (MRI)
White paper deadline: July 25, 2008
Full proposal deadline: October 3, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/MinervaRFP.pdf

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Request for pre-proposals (RFP) Summer 2008
Deadline: August 18, 2008
http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/research/rfp/2008.html

National Science Foundation

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP)
Letter of intent deadline: August 19, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08569/nsf08569.htm

Job Opportunities

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Research Associate
Deadline: July 8, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/RutgersResAssoc.pdf

University of Florida

Assistant/Associate Professor
Deadline: September 15, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UofFloridaAsstAssocProf.pdf

University of Minnesota

Assistant/Associate Professor, Energy Economics
Deadline: September 15, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UofMinnEnergyEconomics.pdf

Papers and Presentations

Wallace Huffman

(with Greg Colson and Matt Rousu). "Consumers' Willingness to Pay for New Genetically Modified Food Products: Evidence from Experimental Auctions of Intragenic and Transgenic Foods." Presented at the 12th International Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR), Ravello, Italy, June 12-14, 2008.

(with Xing Fan). "The Impact of Public and Private R&D on Profit Function Choices: Evidence from Eight Midwestern States, 1960-2004." Presented at the USDA-ERS and AIEA2 International Conference, "The Economic Impact of Public Support to Agriculture," Bologna, Italy, June 19-21, 2008.