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• Roster Updates
• Funding Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
• Papers and Presentations

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Announcements

It's a boy!

Congratulations to Keith and Courtney Evans on the birth of James Michael Evans born Thursday, May 21, at 11:44 a.m. weighing 6 lbs., 2 oz. and 20 inches long.

It's a girl!

Congratulations to Lihong and Joseph McPhail on the birth of Sumay Lu McPhail born Friday, May 29, at 9:40 a.m. weighing 7 lbs., 2.5 oz. and 20.5 inches long.

Funding Opportunities

USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program National Integrated Water Quality Program
Deadline: July 15, 2009
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/waterqualityicgp.cfm

Job Opportunities

Delaware Valley College

Dean, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/DelawareValleyDean.pdf

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Chair/Professor, Agribusiness Economics
Deadline: October 1, 2009
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/SIUCProfandChair.pdf

Virginia Tech

Assistant Professor, Financial Planning
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/VirginiaTechAsstProfFP.pdf

Papers and Presentations

Wallace E. Huffman

(with Z. Chen and S. Rozelle). "Farm Technology and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Four Regions in China." China Economic Review 20(2009):153-161.

"Projections for Labor Markets: 2009-18 and Beyond." Conference on Immigration Reform: Implications for Farmers, Farm Workers and Communities. Washington, DC, May 21-22, 2009.