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

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Current News

Roster Updates

Office Changes

Mainul Hoque, B13 Curtiss, 4-4827
Qiye Sun, 83 Heady, 4-6846
Saw Wah, 280D Heady, 4-2177
Zheng Xu, B11 Curtiss, 4-4827

Conferences and Calls for Papers

The Economics of Alternative Energy Sources and Globalization: The Road Ahead

Orlando, Florida, November 1517, 2009
Abstract deadline: September 7, 2009
http://www.fred.ifas.ufl.edu/files/energy_conference.pdf

Funding Opportunities

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers Training Coordination Program
Deadline: September 17, 2009
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/pdfs/09_taaf.pdf

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Network Infrastructure Support for Emerging Behavioral and Social Research Areas in Aging (R24)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-09-233.html

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Fall 2009 EPA Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowships For Graduate Environmental Study
Deadline: October 22, 2009
http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2009/2009_star_gradfellow.html

Job Opportunities

Purdue University

Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Energy Economics
Deadline: September 30, 2009
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/PurdueEnergyPostDoc.pdf

Papers and Presentations

Wallace E. Huffman

(with Yanni Chen). "An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Food Prices and Other Factors on Adult Lifestyles: Choices of Physical Activity and Healthy Weight." Presented at the 27th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), Beijing, China, August 16-22, 2009.

(with Greg Colson). "Consumers' Willingness to Pay for New Genetically Modified Food Products: Evidence from Experimental Auctions of Intragenic and Transgenic Foods." Presented at the 27th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), Beijing, China, August 16-22, 2009.