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Announcements

It's a girl!

Congratulations to Huan Zhao and Qiye Sun on the birth of a baby girl! Melody was born on Wednesday, July 9, weighing 6 lbs., 11 oz. and 19 1/2" long.

Conferences and Calls for Papers

Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association

Chicago, Illinois, March 4-9, 2009
Proposal deadline: October 1, 2008
http://www.udel.edu/uaa/annual_meeting/index.html

Challenges and Tensions in International Research Collaborations

Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2-3, 2008
http://www.international.umn.edu/oriconf/

Econometric Society European Winter Meetings

Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 31-November 1, 2008
Proposal deadline: September 5, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/esewm08b.pdf

Funding Opportunities

Higher Education for Development

Burundi: Strengthening Rural Agriculture Development
Deadline: July 28, 2008
http://www.hedprogram.org/tabid/66/itemid/160/Burundi-Strengthening-Rural-Agriculture-Developme.aspx
Egypt: Executive Master's in Business Administration
Deadline: August 22, 2008
http://www.hedprogram.org/tabid/96/itemid/147/Paraguay-Strengthening-Training-in-Health-Informa.aspx
Paraguay: Strengthening Training in Health Information Systems, Health Statistics and Epidemiology
September 24, 2008
http://www.hedprogram.org/tabid/96/itemid/147/Paraguay-Strengthening-Training-in-Health-Informa.aspx

USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

Unified Export Strategy
http://www.fas.usda.gov/scriptsw/PressRelease/pressrel_dout.asp?Entry=valid&PrNum=0106-08

Job Opportunities

Department Of Agriculture, Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration

Agricultural Economist
Deadline: July 29, 2008
http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/getjob.asp?JobID=73663823&AVSDM=2008%2D07%2D08+11%3A04%3A51&Logo=0&pg=3&q=APHIS

Farm Foundation

Vice President
Deadline: September 2, 2008
http://www.farmfoundation.org/news/templates/template.aspx?articleid=402&zoneid=23

Library of Congress

Analyst in Agricultural Policy
Deadline: July 31, 2008
http://jsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/getjob.asp?JobId=73398957&AVSDM=2008-06-30+09:22:21
Analyst Agricultural Conservation & Natural Resources Policy (two positions)
Deadline: August 4, 2008
http://jsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/getjob.asp?JobId=73396011&AVSDM=2008-06-30+08:12:51