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• Conferences and Calls for Papers
• Funding Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
• Papers and Presentations

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Announcements

Foreign Travel Grants

Department deadlines for fall semester:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: due in 266 Heady on Friday, August 31, 2007.
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: due in 266 Heady on Friday, September 7, 2007.

See the Faculty Senate web site for additional information: http://www.facsen.iastate.edu/Foreigntravel/foreigntravel.htm

It's a girl!

Congratulations to Shane and Camille Ellis on the birth of their daughter. Emmarae Jacqueline was born on Monday, July 9, weighing 8 pounds, 13 ounces and 21 inches long.

Conferences and Calls for Papers

3rd Annual Agricultural Entrepreneurship Institute

Ames, Iowa, September 17-18, 2007
http://www.entrepreneurship.ag.iastate.edu/2007_Institute/index.html

9th Annual Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop

Ames, Iowa, September 16-17, 2007
Registration deadline: September 7, 2007
http://www.card.iastate.edu/here/

Midwest Organic Research Symposium

LaCrosse, Wisconsin, February 21-23, 2008
http://ofrf.org/networks/midwest_organic_rsch_symposium.html

Midwest, Great Plains, and Western Outlook Conference

Indianapolis, Indiana, August 14-15, 2007
Registration deadline: August 10, 2007
http://www.econ.istate.edu/newsfiles/SummerOutlook.pdf

Funding Opportunities

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, USDA

Rural Health and Safety Education Competitive Grants Program
Deadline: August 1, 2007
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/ruralhealthandsafetyeducation.cfm
Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR)
Deadline: September 5, 2007
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/sbir.cfm

Social Science Research Council

The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)
http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/

The BASIS Assets and Market Access Collaborative Research Support Program

Deadline: July 23, 2007
http://www.basis.wisc.edu/ama_crsp/rfp_2007.htm

Job Opportunities

American Farm Bureau Federation

Economist (Trade Specialist)
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/AmericanFarmBureauFederation.pdf

Arkansas State University

Assistant/Associate Professor, Agribusiness
http://academicaffairs.astate.edu/Faculty Positions/Coll Agriculture/A0706-04AsstAssocAgriEcon.htm

Kansas State University

Assistant Professor
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/KSUproductioneconomist.pdf

Purdue University

Assistant Professor, Environmental/Natural Resource Economics
Deadline: September 1, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/PurdueEnvEcon.pdf
Assistant Professor, Food/Agricultural Business Economics
Deadline: September 1, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/PurdueFoodAgBus.pdf

Papers and Presentations

Wallace E. Huffman

(with Matthew Rousu, Jason F. Shogren, and Abebayehu Tegene.) "Effects and Value of Verifiable Information in a Controversial Market: Evidence from Lab Auctions of Genetically Modified Foods," Economic Inquiry 45(July 2007):409-432.

"Demand for Farm Labor in the Coastal Fruit and Salad Bowl States Relative to the Midlands: Three Decades of Experience," presented at the Conference on Immigration Reform: Implications for Farmers, Farm Workers and Communities (sponsored by the Farm, Giannini, Northwest Area and Kellogg Foundations), Washington, D.C., June 13-14, 2007.