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In This Newsletter

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

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Current News

Announcements

It's a boy!

Congratulations to Babatunde Abidoye and Joanna Awoniyi on the birth of a baby boy. The baby was born on Monday, September 15, at 8:50 p.m. weighing 9lbs., 1 oz. and 21 1/2 inches long.

It's a girl!

Congratulations to Brent and Donna Moore on the birth of a baby girl. Madeleine Marie was born on Tuesday, September 16, at 7:20 p.m. weighing 8 lbs., 3 oz. and 20 inches long.

Roster Updates

Office Changes

Song Xi Chen, 367, 4-0039
Hongli Feng, 377, 4-6307
Wally Huffman, 460E, 4-6359
Tanya Rosenblat, 460A, 4-5028

Conferences and Calls for Papers

67th International Atlantic Economic Conference

Rome, Italy, March 11-14, 2009
http://www.iaes.org/conferences/future/Rome_67/index.htm

67th Midwest Political Science Association National Conference

Chicago, Illinois, April 2-5, 2009
Deadline: October 10, 2008
http://www.mpsanet.org/~mpsa/index.html

Funding Opportunities

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The National Research Initiative Fellowship
The Gerald R. Ford Fellowship
Deadline: December 5 2008
http://www.aei.org/fellowships

Social Science Research Council

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
Application deadline: October 3, 2008
http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/

The National Academies

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/

Job Opportunities

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

One year opportunity, development of economic systems/models
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/EconIPA.pdf

Gustavus Adolphus College

Visiting Assistant Professor/Macroeconomist
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/files/Gustavus.pdf

University of Oklahoma

Assistant Professor, Open Economy Macro, Development or Economic Growth
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail&nr=7353
Assistant Professor, Public Economics
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail&nr=7352

University of Pittsburgh

Associate/Full Professor, across fields
Open Rank, Econometrics/Experimental Economics/Macroeconomics (three positions)
Deadline: October 15, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UnivofPittsburgh.pdf

Papers and Presentations

Wallace Huffman

"The Impact of Public and Private R&D on Farmers' Choices and Productivity: Econometric Evidence from State Data, 1960-2004," Yale University Symposium in Honor of Robert Evenson's Retirement, September 13, 2008.