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Chad Hart, professor, was interviewed for an Oct. 29 KIWA Radio story, "U.S. agricultural trade flourishes under Phase One trade agreement."
Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, had his paper,"Who can work and study from home in Pakistan: Evidence from a 2018–19 nationwide household survey," published in the journal, World Development.
As you continue to work with your students who face challenges in dealing with impacts related to a range of issues this semester—from COVID to social and racial injustice— please be aware that the team at Student Health and Wellness have expanded their existing services, including adding telehealth, to support students. So far this academic year, 3058 appointments have been requested serving 757 students.
Joydeep Bhattacharya, professor, has had his paper, "Exponential-growth prediction bias and compliance with safety measures related to COVID-19," co-authored with Ritwik Banerjee and Priyama Majumdar, published in the journal Social Science & Medicine.
Joshua Rosenbloom, professor and department chair, was interviewed in an Oct. 26 WHO TV story, "Economist: Route to Economics Recovery is Better Control of Virus."
The ISU Ag Business Club won the 2020 Undergraduate Student Section Creative Club Award from the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA).
Gary Lyn, assistant professor, gave a presentation on his paper, "Climate Contagion: Temperature and Growth in Spatial General Equilibrium," at the Department of Economics seminar series at Purdue University on Oct. 20.
Leigh Tesfatsion, professor emerita, had a paper published recently: Swathi Battula, Leigh Tesfatsion, and Zhaoyu Wang (2020), “A Customer-Centric Approach to Bid-Based Transactive Energy System Design,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Volume 11, Issue 6, pp. 4996-5008.
A paper coauthored by Sergio Lence, professor, and Alejandro Plastina, associate professor, was published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Chad Hart, professor, was interviewed for an Oct. 19 AgriMarketing story, "USDA Reports Much More Corn in Iowa is Unharvestable than Originally Estimated."
According to a study by Iowa State University researchers, disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic caused high school completion rates in the United States to increase considerably in 2020 compared to previous years.
As you know, the National Science Foundation recently began enforcing new formatting requirements for biosketches and current and pending support documents.
The Sponsored Funding Support Council (SFSC) has collaborated with OVPR Communications to put together some advice to PIs, along with a dashboard containing helpful links and tutorials for preparing compliant documents.
Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, had his article, "Most US Farmers Remain Loyal to Trump Despite Pain From Trade Wars and COVID-19," published on The Conversation Oct. 19.
NC-1177 Multi-state Research Project on Agricultural and Rural Finance Markets in Transition 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting
Organizing Committee: Lawson Connor, Andrew Stevens, Ana Claudia Sant’Anna, Wendong Zhang
Special thanks to Nathan Kauffman, Courtney Cowley, and Ty Kreitman at Kansas City Fed
Mon., Oct. 19
Weds., Oct. 21
Thurs., Oct. 22
The Fall 2020 CARD Agricultural Policy Review is now available online.
MSAE student Grant Durbahn's paper, "The Determinants of Farmland Rental Contract Choice in Iowa," took second place in the 2020 AAEA (Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) Undergraduate Paper Competition.
Peter Orazem, University Professor, was interviewed for the Oct. 16 radio program Marketplace on the effect of COVID-19 on unemployment.
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was interviewed for an Oct. 16 Provisioner story, "The state of the workforce 2020: covid-19 catalyzes a reckoning."
Research by Joydeep Bhattacharya, professor, was cited in an Oct. 16 The Wire story, "Did India Lock Down Too Early?"
David Swenson, research scientist, was interviewed for a Oct. 15 WHO Radio story, "This holiday shopping season could be rough for retailers."
Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, has published a new paper, “The Case for Healthy U.S.-China Agricultural Trade Relations despite Deglobalization Pressures,” at Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. It is a Featured Article in the special COVID-19 issue.
Kevin Kimle, associate teaching professor, presented, "Creation of an Investment in a University Environment," at the Red Cidir International Conference and Entrepreneurship on Wed., Oct. 7.
A warm congratulations to Bertan Turhan and his wife, Jenna Blochowicz, who welcomed a baby son to their family Weds., Oct. 7 at 6:51 pm, at Mary Greeley Hospital. Little Emre Kaan Turhan weighed 6 lbs, 12.8 oz and was 21 inches long. Baby and both parents are doing well!
From President Wendy Wintersteen to Iowa State Students:
We continue to be encouraged by the low positivity percentage of COVID-19 cases on campus. Thank you for doing your part to practice and model our health and safety measures. Your commitment to personal responsibility is having a positive impact.
The 2020 Norman Borlaug Lecture is on Mon., Oct. 12 at 6:30pm CDT.
2020 World Food Prize Laureate Dr. Rattan Lal will talk about his work in soil and climate.