Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Sheila Olmstead
Professor of Public Affairs in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin
"The Value of Water Quality: Separating Amenity and Recreational Benefits"
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Sher Afghan Asad, Ph.D. grad student, Iowa State University
"Reverse discrimination: Evidence from an online labor market"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Lee Branstetter
"Does offshoring manufacturing harm innovation in the home country? Evidence from Taiwan and China"
Contact Person: GianCarlo Moschini
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Alex Zhylyevskyy, professor, Iowa State University
"Investigating Treatment Effects of Participating Jointly in SNAP and WIC when the Treatment is Validated Only for SNAP"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Carol Shiue
"Social Mobility in the Long-Run: An Analysis with Five Linked Generations in China, 1300-1900"
Location: Cardinal Room, Memorial Union
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jing Cai CV
"Subsidy Policies and Insurance Demand"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Ebonya Washington
"The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood?"
Location: Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Description: The Faculty Experience Workgroup, led jointly by the Faculty Senate and the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost, is working to identify and take action on issues of concern raised by faculty in the recent Campus Climate Survey.
Location: Beijing Friendship Hotel, No. 1, Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, China
Description: Under the background of China's poverty-alleviation efforts, combining the small-scale farmers' development and poverty alleviation practices in the Asia-Pacific region, the focus will be on improving the ability of smallholders to survive and develop, especially on the experiences and frontiers of smallholders' development and poverty reduction in various countries.
Deadline: Aug. 15, 2018
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Sam Bird (U.C. Davis)
“Technology Adoption, Market Participation, and Smallholder Endowments in Western Kenya”
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Price V. Fishback
"The New Deal and Cotton Agriculture During the Great Depression"
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Michael McCormick
"Studying the Fall of the Roman Empire with the Science of the Human Past"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Pierre Mérel
"How Big is the `Lemons' Problem? Historical Evidence from French Appellation Wines"
Location: Stephens Auditorium, 1900 Center Drive, Ames, Iowa 50011
Location: Cambridge, MA
Description: The Rise of the Mega-firm: Causes and Consequences for Labor and Product Markets
Contact Person: NBER will cover the hotel and travel cost for two authors per paper. Other participants may also attend the meeting if space permits. Anyone interested in attending the meeting, but who does not have a paper to submit, may email Carl Beck in the NBER Conference Department (cbeck@nber.org). Questions about the conference should also be directed to him.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Amanda Ross
"Home Equity and the Timing of Claiming Social Security Retirement Income"
Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: 2018 NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration
The NIH Regional Seminar serves the NIH mission of providing education and training for the next generation of biomedical and behavioral scientists. This seminar is intended to:
Location: 2030 Morrill Hall
This is an opportunity to find out more about using open textbooks is your courses as a way of making ISU more affordable for our students. Here’s a link to the subject areas covered by the Open Textbook Library.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Tom Vogl
"Intergenerational Associations and the Fertility Transition"
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Location: Kildee Hall Pavilion
Description: Meet your CALS P&S Council representatives at a meet and greet ice cream social and raffle.
RSVP here: https://iastate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78nAGoNryFQhovX
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Susan Sayre
"Groundwater Externalities with Endogenous Well Deepening"
Location: Curtiss 0013
Description: Sustainable Agriculture Graduate Program colloquium series
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: John Winters, associate professor, Iowa State University
"Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Alberto Galasso
"How does product liability affect innovation? Evidence from medical implants"
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: One of the most important skills for future economists to developing is good communication. Many of the faculty, overall, feel like English communication is an area where we need to improve. Dr. Zhang has kindly offered his time to come and speak about the importance of English skills on the US job market. He'll speak about his own experience in improving his own English skills and answer student questions.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Peter Orazem and Darin Wohlgemuth
"Do Liberal Arts Colleges Maximize Profit?"
Location: Webinar (or Weill Hall 224, Cornell University)
Description: The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, the Center for Carbon Removal (CCR), and the New Carbon Economy Consortium (NCEC) invite you to connect with scholars working at the intersection of carbon removal and human dimensions research in order to develop a research agenda on the integration of the social sciences, humanities, and arts in the creation of an economy that is carbon-sequestering rather than carbon-emitting.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Ali Shourideh
“Inequality, Redistribution and Optimal Trade Policy: A Public Finance Approach”
Location:368A Heady Hall
Description: Marc Bellemare
"Producer Attitudes toward Output Price Risk: Experimental Evidence from the Lab and from the Field"
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Wallace Huffman, professor, Iowa State University
"Wellbeing: Models, Measurement and International Comparisons"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Brookside Park, Maple Shelter, 1325 6th St.
Contact Person: jwlee@iastate.edu
Everyone is welcome: students, faculty, staff, family, friends, and pets.
Please help us estimate how much food to provide by filling out the attached RSVP form by Wednesday, Sept 5.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Daniel Kaffine
“Microclimate effects of wind farms on local crop yields”
Location: 13 Curtiss Hall
Description: The sustainability of our food system depends on ensuring that everyone has a seat at the table. Recognizing this, agriculture and food businesses, organizations, and educational institutions are increasing their diversity and inclusion efforts — from the classroom to the field to the fork. But what does diversity and inclusion mean? What is its relevance for the agriculture and food system, including here in Iowa? Why is it important for CALS students to engage in these issues at ISU?
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Peter Orazem, University Professor, Iowa State University
"Long-Term Responses to Large Minimum Wage Shocks: Sub-Minimum and Super-Minimum Workers in Slovenia"
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: Tom Vilsack served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for eight years and is currently president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council. He was Governor of Iowa from 1999 to 2007.
"Trade Relations and U.S. Agriculture"
More information: E-mail the Lectures Program
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
The program will include brief comments from Interim Dean Joe Colletti and recognition of the College’s new faculty and staff since last fall. A reception will follow.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Pioneer Policy Lecture
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady
Contact Person: Harvey Lapan
Location: 368A Heady
Contact Person: Joydeep Bhattacharya
Location: Blockade Runner Resort, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Qiong Wu
"Bitcoin, A New Era or Another Bubble?"
Contact Person: Rajesh Singh
Location: Cambridge, MA
Location: Webinar - Register Here
Description:
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Description: The objective of the conference is to bring together academic researchers, educators, doctoral students and practitioners from various international institutions to focus on timely financial issues and research findings pertaining to industrialized and developing countries including the recent financial and economic crisis.
Paper submission deadline: Jan. 15, 2018
More information
Location: Scheman Building, Ames, IA
Description: "Grow Your Adventure"
Our technical program will provide a rich and varied selection of professional development including oral and poster sessions, workshops, and tours of local agriculture enterprises and sites unique to central Iowa. There will also be ample opportunities to meet old friends, make new ones, and build your professional network. In essence, a chance to grow your professional adventure!
Location: Institute for Research on Poverty
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Description: Designed to help college instructors plan courses on the causes, consequences, and cures of poverty. The workshop is open to college faculty and instructors in any postsecondary institution—university, college, or community college. Applicants need not have prior experience in poverty studies, but should plan to include material from the workshop in future courses.
Application deadline: Feb. 15, 2018
Location: 2117 Gerdin (June 11 and 13), 3164 Gerdin (June 12)
Description: A 3-part series. The research-based flipped classroom and team-based learning (TBL), an increasingly-popular form of flipped-classroom where small-group learning that can be implemented effectively in small or large classes.
Location: University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
Location: 206 Durham
Description: The purpose of the ISU-OLC is to share campus best practices to improve online teaching and learning; see how others are using the University Learning Management System (LMS).
Location: 2030 Morrill
Description: The "Improving Your Online Course" workshop explores the QM Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan.
Location: 1204 Kildee Hall
Description: "Science Policy in an Age of Public Conflict" NUTRS 505
Lecturer: Dr. Catherine Woteki, Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics 2010-2016 and Under Secretary for Food Safety 1997-2001, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Location: 368A Heady
Contact Person: Harvey Lapan
Location: 368A Heady
Contact Person: Joydeep Bhattacharya
The 2018 Midwest Big Data Summer School for Early Career Researchers will be held from May 14-17, 2018 in Ames, Iowa. This summer school is designed as an intensive curriculum aimed at early career researchers to get them started in data-driven research. The school will include full day lectures on topics ranging from: data acquisition, data preprocessing, exploratory data analysis, descriptive data analysis, data analysis tools and techniques, visualization and communication, ethical issues in data science, reproducibility and repeatability, and understanding of domain/context.
Early registration: March 14
Regular registration: March 15-April 14
Location: St. Petersburg
Abstract submission deadline: March 30, 2018
More information
Turkish Airlines is now our official airline partner and provide discounted flight tickets for conference participants. More information is available at http://icntefconference.com/flight-tickets/
Location: Howe Hall
Description: A strong program of invited speakers presenting on interesting Machine Learning topics. We are accepting poster presentations for the event and the registration fee for ISU people is quite reasonable (essentially at marginal cost).
Location: Howe Hall
Description: This national meeting organized by the ISU Statistics Department features some of the very top scholars in the country and world. It is accepting poster presentations.
More information: https://predictiveinference.github.io/
Graduating seniors in agricultural business, economics, and business economics and their families:
Location: Gallery Room, Memorial Union
Description: This year, we will be hosting an open house reception in honor of our graduating seniors from all three majors and their families.
Please stop by so we, as the Department of Economics faculty and staff, may thank you for sharing your student with us for a few years!
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Cambridge, MA
Description: The Role of Immigrants and Foreign Students in Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Abstract submission deadline: Oct. 31, 2017
Location: Alanya, Turkey
Description: ICFAEC 2018 aims at disseminating new knowledge in the field economics and provides a forum for deliberations and exchange of knowledge among academics, organizations, and researchers. ICFAEC 2018 encourages submission of theoretical and empirical papers in the different domains of food and agricultural economics and related disciplines, within and across different levels of analysis.
Location: 468D Heady Hall
Description: Zehui Jiang
"Predicting County Level Corn Yields in Iowa Using Machine Learning"
Contact Person: Quinn Weninger
Location: Central Campus, just north of the Campanile
Description: “A World Intellectual Property Day celebration, hosted by The Iowa State University Research Foundation (ISURF) and the Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer (OIPTT) will be held just north of the Campanile on Central Campus, Thursday, April 26, 2018, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
The Department of Economics cordially invites you to a reception celebrating University Professor Harvey Lapan's 46 years of distinguished service to the department.
Location: 008 Curtiss Hall
Description: The roundtable will be discussion format for peers to provide hints or tips to others, share concerns, exchange ideas, and demonstrate what works in Canvas for them/their classes. In addition, there will be a short introduction to the Canvas Mobile Apps (Canvas Teacher & Canvas Student). Please bring your laptop. A light lunch will be provided.
Location: Drop off location, 260 Heady Hall
Description: The 10th Annual Live United Food Drive will take place on campus from April 23 to May 4. Donations will benefit the food pantries of Story County and ensure children have food during the summer months.
Non-perishable items and monetary donations will be accepted. Monetary donations may be provided online or via cash/check. Online donations may be provided on the United Way of Story County website.
Location: Maple shelter in Brookside Park
Description: We plan on serving hamburgers, chicken, hot dogs, vegetables, fruits, chips, and cookies. If you are interested in preparing something else or if you have any suggestions, please let us know in the comments of the RSVP form below Please RSVP by April 18.
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: "Where is U.S. Foreign Policy Headed?"
Location: 368A Heady
Description: Lala Ma
"Does Shale Gas Development Impact Infant Health through Drinking Water?"
Location: University of Berkely, CA
Location: University of Georgia in Athens, GA
Description: The theme of the conference is “Regulatory Impact Analysis: Methods, Applications, and Implications for Emerging Economies”. The conference includes invited keynote speakers, roundtable forums, and parallel sessions. Arrival and registration of participants will start in the afternoon of April 5. All speeches and sessions are on April 6 and 7.
Abstract submission deadline: Dec. 15, 2017
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jay Shimshack
"Does mandatory labeling of outfall points influence pollution and compliance? Evidence from a natural experiment in Ohio"
Location: Cambridge, MA
Description: Capital Flows, Currency Wars and Monetary Policy conference
Submission deadline: Jan. 15, 2018
Contact Person: rshannon@nber.org.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: V. Bhaskar (University of Texas at Austin)
"Marriage Market Equilibrium, Education and Ability"
Location: 1951 Food Sciences Building – CCUR Auditorium
Live webinar: https://zoom.us/j/298365885
Join by phone: (669) 900-6833 – ID# 298365885
Location: 568B Heady Hall
Description: Xiangou Deng
"Brokerage Preference, Dual Agency and Housing Market Strength"
Contact Person: Somenath Bera
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Valentin Verdier
"Welfare effects of dynamic assignment without money: An empirical analysis"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Katherine Lacy (ISU)
"Farmers use of herbicide resistance management practices"
Contact Person: Quinn Weninger
Location: Memorial Union
Description: Whether you are a chemist, artist, performer, engineer, or historian, if you are involved with research, scholarship or creative activity at Iowa State, we invite you to register and participate on March 27. Let’s “Discover. Create. Together.”
Location: Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Description: Dr. Kathrin Zippel
"Women in Global Science: Advancing Careers Through International Collaboration"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jason Abrevaya
“Interval Censored Regression with Fixed Effects”
Location: Memorial Union Gold Room
Live webinar: https://zoom.us/j/295238679
Join by phone: (669) 900-6833 – ID# 295238679
Description: The sessions are an opportunity for students, faculty and staff to learn more about the search, as well as provide input on characteristics they would like to see in the next dean. Questions may be submitted during each session by using the chat window in the webinar, or via email to calsforum@iastate.edu.
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Registration deadline: March 23
Description: ISU Advance Workshop
Award-winning author and associate professor of sociology at Northeastern University, Dr. Kathrin Zippel is an expert on gender, science and organizations.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
“Impact of the Global Gag Rule: New Estimates”
Contact Person: Joydeep Bhattacharya
Location: Hilton Orrington, Evanston, Illinois
Description: MEA's 82nd Annual Meeting
Abstract submission deadline: Oct. 6, 2017
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Stephie Fried
"Storm Drains and Seawalls: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation"
Location: 0013 Curtiss Hall
Description: The Brenton Center Instructional Development Team will be holding a roundtable that will be discussion format for peers to provide hints or tips to others, share concerns, exchange ideas, and demonstrate what works in Canvas for them/their classes. In addition, we will share some general data retrieved from a recent student & faculty survey on the Canvas conversion. Please bring your laptop. There is no set agenda - just a free flow of ideas and information.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Cardinal Room, Memorial Union
Description: Handling Classroom Disruption: From Senseless Side Conversations to Shouting and Slamming Doors (for all faculty)
To register:
Location: 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138-5398
Paper submission deadline: Jan 19, 2018
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: The program will include brief comments from Interim Dean Colletti and recognition to all of our 2018 CALS faculty and staff award recipients. Please come and congratulate this year’s winners.
A wine-and-cheese reception, including Block & Bridle Summer Sausage, will follow the program.
Contact Person: Trina Zimmer 515-294-3830
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: JunJie Wu (Oregon State University)
"Agglomeration Economies and Efficient Environmental Regulation"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Speaker: Dr. Pamala Morris, Assistant Dean/Director of the Office of Multicultural Programs and an Associate Professor for the Department of Youth Development and Agricultural Education, in the College of Agriculture at Purdue University
“Privileging the Privileged; How bias, power, and privilege impact graduate school funding and admissions”
Location: Memorial Union
Description: The Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity (ISCORE) is the university’s local initiative designed to provide an ongoing platform of sharing and applying new knowledge through presentations and workshops. The conference support the university's Mission to "create, share, and apply knowledge... and make Iowa and the world a better place.”
Information on last year's pre-conference and conference here
Location: Memorial Union
Description: The Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity (ISCORE) offers a professional development opportunity for all faculty, professional and merit staff. These sessions provide a structured environment to enhance your understanding and sensitivity to cultural differences. Many of the sessions will focus on providing tools to improve employee interactions and create inclusive workspaces.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Anita Schiller
"The Environmental Kuznets Curve in Small Geographies"
Presentation slides
Location: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Description: In addition to time to network and discuss career options over hors d'oeuvres, the event will feature a review of the research and data on women in economics, a panel featuring women from various career fields who majored in economics, and unique perspectives from leaders in the field.
Special speakers will include:
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: Nick Mullins
"Coal, Climate and Environmental Backlash"
Part of the 2018 Iowa State University Symposium on Sustainability, Feb. 19-20, and the National Affairs Series
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Richard Hornbeck (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
“Engines of Growth: Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing”
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Dave Donaldson (MIT)
Geography and Path Dependence
UContact Person: Joydeep Bhattacharya
Location: Scheman Building
Description: The 2018 Professional and Scientific Council Professional Developent Conference will include 32 sessions and 47 speakers and will be held at the Scheman Building of the Iowa State Center on Wednesday, February 14th!
Registration: Early: $90, Regular, $105
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Jessica Schnabel, International Finance Corporation
"Banking on Women: The Next Emerging Market"
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: You are invited to this inaugural data symposium underscoring Iowa State’s commitment to student success, with a special focus on leveraging best practices across the university to close the gaps in persistence and completion among underrepresented students.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Charlene Cosandier CV
"Intermediaries versus Trolls in Contests for Patents
Contact Person: Quinn Weninger
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Karun Adusumilli CV
"Bootstrap Inference for Propensity Score Matching"
Contact Person: Brent Kreider
Description: Free webinar on the Impact of the 2017 Tax Reform and Jobs Act on Agricultural Cooperatives.
Presenters: Phil Kenkel, Bill Fitzwater Cooperative Chair, Oklahoma State University, Keri Jacobs, Iowa Institute of Cooperatives Endowed Economics Professor, Iowa State University, and Brian Briggerman, Director of the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center, Kansas State University.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Vishal Kamat CV
"Identification with Latent Choice Sets: The Case of the Head Start Impact Study"
Contact Person: Brent Kreider
Location: 116 Durham
Description: Course Design in Canvas
January 22, 2018
Assignments and Gradebook in Canvas
January 23, 2018
Groups and Collaborative Work in Canvas
January 24, 2018
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Rohan Dutta CV
"Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don't: Two Masters"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Désiré Kédagni CV
"Identifying Treatment Effects in the Presence of Confounded Types"
Contact Person: Brent Kreider
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Fei Li CV
"Revenue Management without Commitment: Dynamic Pricing and Periodic Fire Sales"
Contact Person: Quinn Weninger
Location: University of Puerto Rico School of Business, Main Campus, Puerto Rico
Description: The objective of the conference is to bring together academic researchers, educators, doctoral students and practitioners from various international institutions to focus on timely financial issues and research findings pertaining to industrialized and developing countries including the recent financial and economic crisis.
Submission deadline: Sep. 15, 2017
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Prescott Scholarship Reception
Awardees: Pichittra Prapassornmanu and Ginger Zehui Jiang
Location: Molecular Biology Building Room 1102
Description: VPR leaders will give an overview of this impactful internal funding opportunity, as well as information and tips on how to apply. Pre-proposals are due Jan. 31.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Ming Jin
"Wage information, job satisfaction, and perceived social status in China."
Contact Person: Quinn Weninger
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Yun Chang
"Per Capita Income Convergence and Structural Change in Income Inequality in China"
Contact Person: Wallace Huffman
Description: Faculty, retired faculty, staff, grad students:
You are invited to join the department in celebrating the joys of the season at the 2017 Holiday Party.
Thurs., Dec. 7th
Noon-2 p.m.
368A Heady Hall
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Shirui Wang
" An Experimental Study of Alternating Bargaining Game with Uncertainties"
Location: Gold Room, Memorial Union
Description: "Understanding and Implementing Physical and IT Protection for Controlled Unclassified Information”
To register: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/595f181024694ec8bc03357287dcacd8
Location: Food Sciences Building Room 1951
Description: Office of the Vice President for Research leaders will give an overview of this impactful internal funding opportunity, as well as information and tips on how to apply. Pre-proposals are due Jan. 31.
Location: 1306 Elings Hall
Description: Empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions:
The series brings a number of influential women to campus with the goal of empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions. Topics are designed with women in mind.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Hansen Learning Center, 2508 Mortensen Road, Ames, IA 50011
Discussion Leader: Mark Rasmussen, Director, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Title: “Sustainable Agriculture: What Now Leopold?”
Please register by noon, Nov. 30, 2017 to jrober@iastate.edu
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Donna Ginther
"Does Federal Funding of Scientific Research Matter?"
Contact Person: Peter Orazem.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Daniel Tannenbaum
"The Evolving U.S. Occupational Structure"
Contact Person: Wallace Huffman
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Yang He (ISU)
"Robust Inference in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Prashant Bharadwaj
"Displacement and Development: Long Term Impacts of the Partition of India"
Location: Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii
Paper Submission deadline: July 2, 2017
Each symposium has its own organizing committee and its own call for papers! One registration gets you access to all 32 symposia and tutorials and all symposia events.
More information
Location: Scheman Building
Description: For women involved in farming, agribusiness, or students interested in a career in agriculture. Establish a leadership role, expand your professional network, enhance your career.
Register at www.aep.iastate.edu/leadership
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Joyee Deb
"Gambling with Public Opinion"
Location:368A Heady Hall
Description: Dakshina De Silva
"An Evaluation of a Bidder Training Program"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Ryan Kellogg
"Crude by Rail, Option Value, and Pipeline Investment"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 013 Curtiss
Description: New Canvas Training Opportunity Exclusively for CALS Faculty and Staff
To help you prepare for the upcoming semester, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) is providing an exclusive training opportunity for CALS faculty and staff to learn Canvas, ISU’s new learning management system.
Training that would normally take at least four hours to complete, has been condensed into an hour and a half. In that short time, you will learn how to use:
Location: 1306 Elings Hall
Description: Empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions:
The series brings a number of influential women to campus with the goal of empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions. Topics are designed with women in mind.
Connecting Faculty to Translate Research
Tues. Nov. 7
4:30-6:00 pm
0198 Parks Library
Vice President for Research Sarah M. Nusser and Interim Vice President for Extension and Outreach John D. Lawrence will provide brief comments and introduce the program at 5:00 pm. Complementary appetizers and beverages will be served.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Daniel Sumner
"Supply effects of crop insurance and compatibility with WTO rules"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Garance Genicot
"Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks"
Location: 568B Heady Hall
Description: Final Oral Exam, Xiaoguang Feng
"Three Essays on Agricultural Insurance and Farm Real Estate Investment"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: “If These Walls Could Talk” - CALS multicultural students discuss their perspective of life on campus. Their stories are emotional and raw, filled with incredible tenderness, courage and pain. The diversity issues that they challenge us to look at are equally provocative, begging to be heard and confronted.
RSVP by Oct. 16 to Theressa Cooper. Lunch Provided.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: James Sullivan
"Consumption and Income Inequality in the U.S. Since the 1960s"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Owen Ozier
"A Firm of One’s Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice"
Location: Washington University in St. Louis
Description: We are now issuing a call for original research papers from graduate students of all fields of economics. Selected applicants will be expected to present their papers at the 12th Annual Economics Graduate Student Conference of Washington University in St. Louis on Saturday, October 28, 2017.
Paper Submission deadline: Aug. 14, 2017
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Peter Orazem, Brent Kreider
"Minimum Wages and the Return to Occupational Skills Acquired During High School"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Xianjun Qiu (Iowa State University)
"The Conservation Reserve Program and Nutrient Pollution in Groundwater"
Location: Hansen Learning Center
Description: Dr. Matthew Helmers
"Nutrient Reduction to the Mississippi River: We are all in this together"
Contact Person: Julie jrober@iastate.edu
Meal will be $15 per person payable at the door.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Aubhik Khan
"Large recessions in an overlapping generations model with unemployment risk."
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom
Location: Alanya, Turkey
Description: ECONALANYA aims at disseminating new knowledge in the field economics and provides a forum for deliberations and exchange of knowledge among academics, organizations, and researchers. ECONALANYA encourages submission of theoretical and empirical papers in the different domains of economics and related disciplines, within and across different levels of analysis.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Benjamin Moll
"Monetary Policy According to HANK"
Contact Person: Juan Carlos Cordoba
Location:1951 Food Sciences, CCUR Theater
Description: Breaking Bias, The focus of this interactive workshop is to provide a safe space for students, faculty and staff to explore the concept of Unconscious Bias. Specifically we will focus on what bias is and how you can nudge your unconscious to counter bias in your day to day activities.
RSVP by Oct. 16 to Theressa Cooper. Lunch Provided.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Durham Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank and 2017 World Food Prize Laureate
"Betting on Africa to Feed the World"
A reception and student poster display will precede the lecture at 7 pm in the South Ballroom.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Derek Lemoine
"Innovation-Led Transitions in Energy Supply"
Location: 013 Curtiss
Description: New Canvas Training Opportunity Exclusively for CALS Faculty and Staff
To help you prepare for the upcoming semester, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) is providing an exclusive training opportunity for CALS faculty and staff to learn Canvas, ISU’s new learning management system.
Training that would normally take at least four hours to complete, has been condensed into an hour and a half. In that short time, you will learn how to use:
Location: 1306 Elings Hall
Description: Empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions:
The series brings a number of influential women to campus with the goal of empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions. Ttopics are designed with women in mind.
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Location: Hansen Learning Center, 2508 Mortensen Road, Ames, IA 50011
Description: “State of Agriculture in Iowa and the World”
Come and enter into a discussion of the state of plant and animal agriculture in Iowa and the world with Mr. Northey who is awaiting confirmation as the next USDA Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation. Congratulations to Mr. Northey for three terms as Secretary of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship!
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Lorenzo Caliendo
"Trade and Labor Market Dynamics: General Equilibrium Analysis of the China Trade Shock"
William K. Deal Endowed Leadership Lecture
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Joe Kerns ('86 ag business)
"A Tale of Resiliency, Entrepreneurship and the Value of Mentors"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Don Fullerton
"Vertical and Horizontal Redistributions from a Carbon Tax and Rebate"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 142 Curtiss Hall
Description: Reading Circle - “White Like Me” by Tim Wise. As a follow up to the Sept. 13 University Lecturer given by Tim Wise, join us for a book discussion on “White Like Me” written by Tim Wise. A limited number of books is available for free in the CALS Dean’s Office, room 138. Pick up books any time before the event. Lunch will be provided for this event.
RSVP by Sept. 20 to Theressa Cooper
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Matthew Wiswall
"Human Capital Investments and Expectations about Career and Family"
Location: Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Description: "Leveraging NSF Programs for Big Data Research." Dr. Chaitanya Baru, senior advisor for data science, CISE directorate, will discuss agency priorities and initiatives, and answer your questions about funding programs related to data science and data-driven discovery.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Sheryl Ball
"Behavioral and Neural Evidence on Decision Making Under Uncertainty"
Title: Using the Competitive Storage Model to Explain Natural Gas Price
Location: Heady 368A
Contact Person: Quinn Weninger
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Kerwin Charles
“Sexism and the Outcomes of American Women: Internalized Norms or Market Discrimination?”
Location: 1306 Elings Hall
Description: Empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions:
The series brings a number of influential women to campus with the goal of empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions. Topics are designed with women in mind.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Rahul Deb
"Revealed Price Preference: Theory and Stochastic Testing"
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Location: 386A Heady Hall
Description: Jason Brown
"Response of Consumer Debt to Income Shocks: The Case of Energy Booms and Busts"
Location: Scheman Building, Iowa State Center
Description: Keynote Presentation: Data Science for Transforming the US Food Systems
All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend.
Registration is required to attend the All-Hands Meeting. Register here.
Location: Scheman Building
Description: As part of the Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub, the UASPSE Digital Agriculture Spoke is devoted to building partnerships and resources that will address emerging big data issues related to Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Plant Sciences, and Education, including
Location: Room 1951 Food Sciences (CCUR Theater)
Description: Parag Chitnis, Deputy Director, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Registration is not required to attend this seminar
Location: Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Description: Faculty, staff, post-docs, and graduate students interested in learning how the I-Corps program can help you explore the commercial potential of your research discovery or innovation and increase its impact are encouraged to attend. In this presentation we will overview the I-Corps program and our process for participation by students, post-docs, staff, and faculty. One may choose to attend either session (Sep. 11 or Sep. 12).
Location: Gallery, Memorial Union
Description: Faculty, staff, post-docs, and graduate students interested in learning how the I-Corps program can help you explore the commercial potential of your research discovery or innovation and increase its impact are encouraged to attend. In this presentation we will overview the I-Corps program and our process for participation by students, post-docs, staff, and faculty. One may choose to attend either session (Sep. 11 or Sep. 12).
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Pamela Jakiela
"How Soon Is Now? Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments"
Location: 206 Durham (60-person capacity)
Live webcast: 116 Durham (30-person capacity)
Description: Canvas Faculty and Staff Breakout Sessions
with Canvas trainer Erin Wasson
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. - Assignments and Discussions
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. - Grading and Assessment
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. - Quizzes and Question Banks
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. - Modules and File Management
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 206 Durham (60-person capacity)
Live webcast: 253 Durham (12-person capacity)
Description: Canvas Faculty and Staff Breakout Sessions
with Canvas trainer Erin Wasson
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. - Modules and Files Management
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. - Communication and Collaboration
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. - Assignments and Discussions
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. - Grading and Assessment
Location: Jeff and Deb Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center
Description: Make plans to attend the college’s annual BBQ on Sep. 2 at the Jeff and Deb Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center, prior to the ISU vs. UNI football game! Visit fellow alums, students, faculty and friends from 3 - 6 p.m. with a program by Dean Wendy Wintersteen at 4:30 p.m. Bring your family and enjoy fun for all ages including a Hickory Park meal and more!
Enjoy the CALS Corner:
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Ivan Rudik
"Calibrating Informational Dynamics: Learning the Sensitivity of Climate to Emissions"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Economics Department Convocation
Begins: 3:15 pm
Remarks: 3:40 pm
Refreshments will be available.
Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom
Location: Brunnier Art Museum
Description: Welcome reception sponsored by University Museums to celebrate the Faces of Iowa State exhibition’s premiere. Open to all faculty, staff, and students, this is an opportunity to greet colleagues and network while also celebrating the opening of the new portrait exhibition.
Location: University of Iowa Campus - Kollros Auditorium, Biology Building East
Description: The Board of Regents Tuition Task Force has announced dates and times for four public stakeholder meetings. The Tuition Task Force was established this year by the Board to facilitate a public discussion examining core issues and strategies central to the process of setting tuition at Iowa’s public universities.
Location: Iowa State University Campus – Room 240, Scheman Building
Description: The Board of Regents Tuition Task Force has announced dates and times for four public stakeholder meetings. The Tuition Task Force was established this year by the Board to facilitate a public discussion examining core issues and strategies central to the process of setting tuition at Iowa’s public universities.
Location: University of Northern Iowa Campus – Slife Ballroom, Commons
Description: The Board of Regents Tuition Task Force has announced dates and times for four public stakeholder meetings. The Tuition Task Force was established this year by the Board to facilitate a public discussion examining core issues and strategies central to the process of setting tuition at Iowa’s public universities.
Location: Chicago Marriott Downtown, Chicago, IL
Description: "Recent Developments in Experimental Economics"
Location: Grace Meeting Room, 4th floor, Chicago Marriott Downtown
540 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
Description: 2017 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting Reunion and Reception
This is a joint reception with the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Location: Webinar
Description: You are invited to attend a webinar for social, behavioral, and economic scientists. It will address the steps to obtain research funding. We will discuss challenges for research faculty working toward the goal of tenure, and the proposal process for SBE researchers.
Location: John and Mary Pappajohn Education Center, 1200 Grand Ave., Des Moines, Iowa
Description: The Board of Regents Tuition Task Force has announced dates and times for four public stakeholder meetings. The Tuition Task Force was established this year by the Board to facilitate a public discussion examining core issues and strategies central to the process of setting tuition at Iowa’s public universities.
Location: Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
Description: The Econometrics of Derivatives Markets
Application deadline: April 10, 2017
Days/Times: Weds., July 19, 2017 AND Weds., July 26, 2017, 8 am-12 pm (total of 8 hours)
Location: Hach Hall atrium
Description: RESPOND is an 8-hour training that teaches participants how to help someone who is in distress and may be experiencing a mental health issue. The training will provide information and decrease stigma about mental health issues, teach helpful ways to assess the needs and support the individual, and advise how to refer to appropriate campus or local resources.
Days/Times: Tues., July 18, 2017 AND Tues., July 25, 2017, 1 pm-5 pm (total of 8 hours)
Location: Hach Hall atrium
Description: RESPOND is an 8-hour training that teaches participants how to help someone who is in distress and may be experiencing a mental health issue. The training will provide information and decrease stigma about mental health issues, teach helpful ways to assess the needs and support the individual, and advise how to refer to appropriate campus or local resources.
Location: University of London, UK
Location: 2030 Morrill Hall
Description: Today's university classrooms are more diverse than in the past. With this diversity of students comes the need to ensure the learning environments associated with courses are inclusive and designed to support all students. This faculty workshop includes pre-workshop online learning modules and an interactive face-to-face workshop focused on creating an inclusive classroom environment.
Days/Times: Tues., July 11, 2017 AND Thurs., July 13, 2017, 8 am-12 pm (total of 8 hours)
Location: Hach Hall atrium
Description: RESPOND is an 8-hour training that teaches participants how to help someone who is in distress and may be experiencing a mental health issue. The training will provide information and decrease stigma about mental health issues, teach helpful ways to assess the needs and support the individual, and advise how to refer to appropriate campus or local resources.
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Contact Person: Rob Shannon in the NBER's Conference Department at 617/588-0384 or rshannon@nber.org.
Abstract deadline: March 20, 2017
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The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and
Location: Scheman Building, ISU
To register, visit (http://www.aep.iastate.edu/iowaswineday/registration) and choose the student portal.
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Location: National Academies of Science headquarters
2101 Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, DC
"Global Economic Analysis in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities"
Location: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Location: University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Sarasota, Florida.
Description: First author(s) must be a graduate student. GRADCONF will also have a career fair and workshops for graduate students. GRADCONF 2017 aims to bring together graduate students and their faculty advisors together to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of business and economics and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
Abstract deadline: Feb. 1, 2017
Location: University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Sarasota, FL
Description: This is going to be double-blind, peer-review conference. First author(s) must be a graduate student. GRADCONF will also have a career fair and workshops for graduate students.
Description: IIBA Conference Lecture Series
Ravi Dhar, Director of Consumer Insights Center & George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing, School of Management, Yale University
"Lessons from Behavioral Economics for Understanding Consumers"
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description: 2017 Universities Research Conference on Understanding Productivity Growth in Agriculture, part of the ongoing NBER Universities' Research Conference series.
Paper submission deadline: Dec. 31, 2016
Upload papers to http://papers.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=PGAs17
Location: 2622 Lagomarcino
Description: "Introduction to Learning-Centered Classes and Meetings"
Participants will be engaged in activities that will cause them to examine their beliefs about learning. They will be asked to focus on their own thinking and learning. After experiencing learning-centered strategies for themselves, participants will discuss the implications and applications as they plan learning for students and clients.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Xiangou Deng (ISU)
"Short and Distort"
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Iowa Cattlemen’s Association, 2055 Ironwood Court, Ames, IA 50014
Description: “Current challenges and research priorities of the Iowa Animal Commodity Organizations”
Meal will cost $15/person payable at the door.
Please register to jrober@iastate.edu by noon on Thursday, April 27, 2017.
Location: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Description: Penn Institute for Economic Research
This unique week-long program provides essential training on state-of-the-art quantitative tools for analyzing macroeconomic policy from the world’s leading experts at the University of Pennsylvania
Registration deadline: Mar. 10, 2017
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Nick Muller
"Pollution, Mortality Risk, and the Distribution of Income"
Location: Sokos Hotel Presidentti, Helsinki, Finland
In the conference emphasis will be placed on the developments in emerging market economies, on the fate of the recent trends and of the impact of these developments on international trade, finance and regulation as well as on national economies and financial systems. Theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented papers are all welcome.
Abstract deadline: March 24, 2017
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Description: This conference serves as a forum for academics, practitioners, and central bank and government officials in Europe and all over the world to present and discuss research results about the evolution of the international economics and of the global financial system.
Abstract submission deadline: March 24, 2017 aioc.econometrics@gmail.com
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: Washington, DC
Description: Current Trends in U.S. Farm Income, Farm Income Volatility, and Farmland Values: What's the Story?
Presenters: Moderator: Christopher Burns, Ag Economist, USDA ERS
Kevin Patrick, Ag Economist, USDA ERS
Daniel Prager, Ag Economist, USDA ERS
Wendong Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Xiaoguang Feng (ISU)
“Re-evaluating Farmland Investment Characteristics from a Forward-looking Perspective”
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Catherine Eckel (Texas A&M University)
"Gender in Financial Markets"
Location: Hickory Shelter in Brookside Park - 1325 6th St., Ames, IA
Description: The Economics Grad Student Association will hold their spring picnic at Brookside Park. The picnic is free and open to everyone in the department (staff, faculty and students), their family and friends.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Eric Young
"The Politics of Flat Taxes"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: Imperial College London, UK
Abstract submission deadline: March 24, 2017
Registration deadline: April 7, 2017
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Location: 468D Heady Hall
Description: Yoonho Choi (ISU)
“Currency Devaluation, Foreign Debt, and Unemployment in an Open Economy.”
The Department of Economics cordially invites you to a reception honoring Dr. John Schroeter, who retires on May 31, 2017, after 34 years of distinguished service as professor, interim chair, and director of graduate education.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: James Feigenbaum
"Taxes, Imperfect Capital Markets, and Illegal Immigration"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Koichiro Ito
"Information Frictions, Inertia, and Selection on Elasticity: A Field Experiment on Electricity Tariff Choice"
Location: Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Join Sigma Xi to celebrate the impact of Iowa State research! Hear what your campus colleagues are discovering and creating – and learn how you can help spread the word about the value of Iowa State’s research.
Location: Scheman Building
Description: Dean Wintersteen appointed the CALS Sustainability Task Force last year to begin a college-wide dialog on sustainability to consider how the college can focus and more fully engage in sustainability across our research, education and extension and outreach missions.
Location: 1148 Gerdin Building
Description: Alan Barkema
“Pursuing Questions: Prospects for the Economy in Agriculture”
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Economic Forum Series: "How to Build Financial Security in a Changing World"
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: "My Personal Journey with Diversity - A Conversation with TIAA President Roger W. Ferguson, Jr."
Location: Kocimski Auditorium, 0101 College of Design
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Hyunseok Kim (ISU)
“U.S. Corn and Soybean Supply Response in the Renewable Fuel Standard Era”
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Webinar
Description: Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research
ET for a short how-to on ROAR participation and an open Q&A session
Location: Gallery Room, MU
Description: ISU Department of Environmental Health and Safety hosts Severe Storm Spotter Training presented by the National Weather Service, Des Moines.
Pre-register at Learn@ISU
Location: Des Moines Marriott Downtown, 700 Grand Ave.
Description: This is the must-attend event for professionals in the field of analytics who work in finance, insurance, retail, cybersecurity, and transportation. Participants will be immersed in high-level information that is sure to benefit careers of all levels.
Engaging sessions will be led by highly qualified experts in their fields, will boost participant skills, and enhance capabilities for company analytics.
Location: Des Moines Marriott Downtown, Des Moines, IA
Description: Hosted by the Iowa State University College of Business
For professionals in the field of analytics who work in finance, insurance, retail, cybersecurity, and transportation. Participants will be immersed in high-level information that is sure to benefit careers of all levels. Registration: $30
Location: Hansen Learning Center, 2508 Mortensen Road, Ames, IA
Description: Dr. Robert C. Brown, ISU Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
“Renewable Energies: Options and Opportunities, Iowa’s Role, and the Future”
Register by March 29, 2017: Julie at jrober@iastate.edu
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Javier Bianchi
"Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Risk, and Unemployment"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: Gallery, Memorial Union
Description: Dr. Nancy Wayne, UCLA
"The Need for Self-Promotion"
9-11 am
"Work-Life Balance"
1-3 pm
Registration deadline: March 21
Contact Person: Carla Persaud cpersaud@iastate.edu
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: David Weiman
"Main Street vs. Wall Street: An Historical Perspective"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Steve Miller
"Estimating Heterogeneous Effects of Transferable Quota Programs Using Causal Trees"
Location: Gallery Room, Memorial Union
Description: Federal Statistical Research Data Centers Day: Opportunities for Researchers to Use Restricted Access Data
We are sponsoring an event at the end of March targeted toward researchers in the social sciences. Faculty, postdocs, and graduate students are all welcome to attend.
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Caroline Bruzelius (Duke University)
"Apps, Maps & Models, The Digital Revolution & History"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jeremy Weber
"Asset Ownership, Windfalls, and Income: Evidence from Oil and Gas Royalties"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Joseph Cullen
“Market Dynamics and Investment in the Electricity Sector”
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Posters and poster sessions are a major vehicle for presenting new research, both in academics and industry.
Designing a good poster—one that communicates your research clearly and succinctly—can be intimidating at first. Therefore, the communications staff of Economics (and CARD) are offering a small workshop on how to approach poster design.
Contact Person: RSVP to kkovarik@iastate.edu
Office of the Vice President for Research
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
This event will feature Iowa State’s faculty research across disciplines, offer tables for networking discussions, and end with a hosted reception. Faculty from all Iowa State departments, colleges, centers, and institutes are encouraged to attend. Faculty are also invited to present their research, scholarship, or creative activity in timed lightning talks and/or poster sessions.
Program
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Wade Brorsen
"Times Series Analysis of Cash and Futures Prices"
Location: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
The theme of the conference is “New Normal of the Chinese Economy: Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Implications.”
CES invites both members and non-members to submit papers and/or to propose organized sessions at the 2017 North America Conference. All fields of specialization within Economics will be considered, but papers focusing on the Chinese economy will be given preference.
Abstract submission deadline: Dec. 15, 2016
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Description: William Graves, Associate Dean of the Graduate College, Ann-Marie Fiore, University Professor in Apparel, Events & Hospitality Mgmt. and Mufit Akinc, Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, will lead the session.
Register: Learn@ISU page https://training.ehs.iastate.edu/IowaSU/site/
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
7th Economics & Finance Conference, Tel Aviv
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28th International Academic Conference, Tel Aviv
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Location: Kildee Hall Ensminger Room
Description: Attendees at this session will learn how to strategically search for foundation funding using the Foundation Directory Online and other sources. This session will inform you about the next steps to take once a match is found, as well as the university resources available to you to assist with completion of your submission. The event will be beneficial to all faculty and staff who are interested in funding smaller projects or diversifying their funding sources.
Location: Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research at Stanford University
Description: NBER project on the Economics of Digitization
On March 1 and 2, the meeting will involve a tutorial for economics graduate students.
Application deadline: Nov. 18, 2016
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Greg Kaplan
"Micro Heterogeneity and Aggregate Consumption Dynamics"
Location: New York Sheraton Hotel at Times Square, NYC, NY
Paper submission deadline: Nov. 15, 2016
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: Adam Davidson
"It's the Economy"
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: Dr. Keisha N. Blain
"In the Shadow of Charleston: Race, Racism, and Racial Violence"
Location: Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center, 2508 Mortensen Road
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Zabid Iqbal (ISU)
“Aggregate Agricultural Intensive and Extensive Land Supply Response to Price and Non-Price Factors”
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Panel: "Shaping Environmental Policy, Improving Water Quality and Environmental Health"
Location: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Description: Financial Education and Planning Research
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Kristy Buzard CV
"Self-enforcing Trade Agreements and Lobbying"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Woan Foong Wong
"The Round Trip Effect: Endogenous Transport Costs and International Trade"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Carolina Pan CV
"From Ideas to Trade"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jialing Yu CV
"Welfare Effects of Publicly Subsidized Crop Insurance Programs: The Sufficient Statistics Approach"
Location: 2030 Morrill Hall
Description: Workshop series meets for 5 Tuesdays:
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Gary Lyn
"Grounded by Gravity: A Well-Behaved Trade Model with Industry-Level Economies of Scale"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Edward Balistreri
"Optimal environmental border adjustments under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Guilherme DePaula
"Technological Diffusion and Bundled Contracts: Soy Boom in Brazil"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jeff Luckstead
"US Immigration Policies"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Vladimir Tyazhelnikov
"Production Clustering and Offshoring"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: David Weil (Brown University)
"The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade"
Location: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis headquarters or its branches, also webcast live
Description: Conversation with the Chair: A Teacher Town Hall Meeting
Educators are invited to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s first town hall for teachers. After opening remarks, Chair Yellen will take questions from audiences across the country.
Join us to participate in this free event, which will include hors d’oeuvres in St. Louis and dinner at the Little Rock, Ark., Louisville, Ky., and Memphis, Tenn., branches.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Prescott Scholarship Reception
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Georgetown University's Fourth Winter School on the Analytics and Policy Design of Migration
Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Doha, Qatar
Application deadline: Oct. 15, 2016
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Location: 360 Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Paul Glewwe
“What Explains Vietnam’s Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries?”
Location: Olde Main Brewing Co, 316 Main St., Ames, IA
Description: Robert C. Brown, Distinguished Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering
"Renewable energy and complementary biofuels. Practicality and politics for Iowa, U.S. and World"
Register by email to jrober@iastate.edu
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Ziran Li (ISU)
“The Pre-Harvest Hedging practices of U.S. Corn Producers”
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Sandip Agarwal (ISU)
"Unfolding the Bias in Farm Nutrient Management”
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 386A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Nicolas Ziebarth
"Student Debt and Labor Market Outcomes."
Location: Webcast
View these sessions to gain key insight into a wide range of current issues at NSF including: the state of current funding; new and current policies and procedures; and pertinent administrative issues.
Register here.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Chao Li (ISU)
“The Supply Curve of Cellulosic Ethanol”
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 368A Heady hall
Description: Steven Durlauf
"Some Microfoundations for the Great Gatsby Curve"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Qianrong Wu (ISU)
"The Role of Neural Activation Differences in the Brains of Women and Men When Making Decisions on Choosing Milk and Eggs" (with John Crespi and Dermot Hayes)
Location: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Description: Teaching and Learning Economics in the College Classroom
Registration deadline: Oct. 28, 2016
Location: South Ballroom, Memorial Union
Description: The Office of the Vice President for Research
Faculty, staff, post-docs, and graduate students are welcome to attend; space is limited.
Registration deadline: Oct. 28, 2016 at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-winning-grant-proposals-tickets-28406703214.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Hansen Learning Center, 2508 Mortensen Road, Ames, IA
Description: Chad Hart, associate professor; Lee Schulz, assistant professor
“Iowa’s crop and livestock outlooks: From local economies to global impacts"
Location: Webcast
Madison Auditorium, Alexandria, VA
Description: US Patent and Trademark Office
“New Tools for Open Patent Data”
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Thomas Fullerton
"Collegiate Football Attendance in El Paso"
Contact Person: Peter Orazem
Location: Richard and Joan Stark Lecture Hall, 1148 Gerdin Business Building
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Nathan Hendricks
"The Economic Benefits from Innovations to Reduce Heat and Water Stress in Agriculture"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Meredith Fowlie
"Measuring and Mitigating Emissions Leakage Risk"
Getting Started with EndNote Web
Lost the references you need for your research paper? Thesis & dissertation citations becoming unmanageable? This workshop for beginners introduces EndNote Web, a free bibliographic management program that helps you collect, organize, format, and use your collected citations in your writing projects.
RSVP to reserve your seat
Register through Learn@ISU
Contact Person: Jody A. Kalvik jkalvik@iastate.edu
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Reception for Emeritus Professor John Miranowski
Please join the department in celebrating John's retirement after 31 years at Iowa State University. A short program will begin at 2:30 pm.
Location: Cardinal Room, MU
Description: "Changing Institutional Culture One Department at a Time"
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Otavio Bartalotti
“Revising the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Unemployment: A Measurement Error-Corrected Regression Discontinuity Approach”
Finding Funding: Using Campus Resources!
27th International Academic Conference
Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract and registration deadline: Oct. 6, 2016
"Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Under the Global Food, Financial and Economic Challenges"
Kyiv, Ukraine
Registration and annotation submission deadline: May 31, 2016
Full Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2016
Payment deadline: Sept. 15, 2016
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Dr. Rebecca Sela, Executive Director – Financial Analysis, JPMorgan Chase
Ph.D. candidates are invited to learn more about employment opportunities with JPMorgan Chase in the economics and related quantitative fields.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Julia K. Thomas
"Default Risk and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Scott Swinton
"Limitations of Auctions for Cost-Effective Payment for Farmers to Abate Phosphorus Runoff"
Description: Pivot for grant coordinators and administrative staff
Location: 301 Spedding Hall
Bring your laptop for this hands-on training to learn how to strategically use the Pivot research funding database. Using your own Pivot account, you will learn how to identify and connect with research funding opportunities that match the research goals of the faculty you support.
Description: Pivot for researchers
Location: 301 Spedding Hall
Bring your laptop for this hands-on training to learn how to strategically use the Pivot research funding database. Using your own Pivot account, you will learn how to identify and connect with research funding opportunities relevant to your interests.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: David Switzer (St. Cloud State University)
Professor Switzer will discuss supplementary materials that are offered by several textbook publishers to learn both about how they integrate them with their classroom teaching and what sorts of metrics they use to gauge the effectiveness of these materials.
Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom
Location: Room 2432, Food Sciences Building
Reception at 4:30 p.m., Agronomy Hall Commons (second floor, facing courtyard)
Description: Keith Paustian
"Climate-Smart Soils: Bringing Pie in the Sky Down to Earth"
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Getting Started with Mendeley
Wish you could …
• extract details from academic papers into a database?
• filter your library by authors, journals or key words?
• share and synchronize your library with selected colleagues?
This workshop for beginners introduces Mendeley, a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device.
RSVP to reserve your seat
Register through Learn@ISU
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Harry Paarsch
"Hui: A Case Study of a Sequential Double Auction of Capital"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Quentin Brummet
"Parental Valuation of School Choice: Evidence from Geographic Boundaries"
Contact Person: Wallace Huffman
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Paul Collier
"The Economics of Dysfunctional Cultures in Organizations"
Contact Person: Wallace Huffman
Location:368A Heady Hall
Description: Max Farrell
“Regression Discontinuity Designs Using Covariates”
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Teaching Interactively with Games and Surveys
Contact Person: Donna Otto
Location: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
The Nobel Conference has brought together the world’s experts to explore the moral and societal implications of a cutting-edge scientific issue. Nobel laureates—and soon-to-be Nobel laureates—are regularly on the roster of experts for an audience of more than 8000 high school and college students, industry professionals, and lifelong learners who attend the conference in St. Peter or watch it live-streamed online.
Location: Olde Main Brewing Co., 316 Main St, Ames, IA
Description: "Agriculture and Politics: Do They Mesh? What is on the Horizon?"
Discussant: State Senator David Johnson
Register by noon on Sep 22 to jrober@iastate.edu
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: William Boal
“Work Intensity and Worker Safety in Early Twentieth-Century Coal Mining”
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Discover Financial Services:
Information sharing session about internship and full time employment opportunities in the financial industry for M.S. and Ph.D. students in quantitative fields of study.
Presenters:
Salima Yala, VP, Risk Management
Bingrong (Bing) Jiang, Director, Phoenix Analytics Center
Crystal Fruit, Sr. Recruiter, HR
Location: 368A Heady Hall
CSWEP Call for Complete Sessions and Individual Papers –
CSWEP Sessions @ Eastern Economic Association Meeting
Feb. 23–26, 2017
Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel,
New York City
Submissions to: ksconwaya@unh.edu
Deadline: Oct. 17, 2016
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Marca Weinberg
Director Resource and Rural Economics Division, Economics Research Service
Dr. Weinberg will give a presentation on the kind of work done at ERS including information on opportunities for
1. Employment with ERS for M.S. and Ph.D. graduates in economics and agricultural economics
2. Access to data for research
3. Internships
4. Research collaborations with ERS staff
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Sebastien Pouliot
Steve Forbes, Chairman, editor in chief, Forbes Media
"How Capitalism Will Save Us"
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Fall Convocation, and this fall a combined awards celebration, is scheduled for Thursday, September 8 at 4:10 p.m. in the Sun Room, Memorial Union.
The program will include brief comments from Dean Wintersteen, award presentations for this past spring’s award winners, (Spring Awards was canceled this year due to inclement winter weather!) and recognition for the College’s new faculty and staff. A reception will follow.
Location: Gold Room, Memorial Union
Contact Person: Dawn Shedarowich, University Human Resources 515-294-4820
Register: Learn @ ISU: https://training.ehs.iastate.edu/IowaSU/site/
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Professors Gabriel Lade, Ivan Rudik, and Wendong Zhang will offer advice to Ph.D. candidates based on their own recent experiences in the job market for new Ph.D.s in Economics.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: This workshop will give advice on the preparation of CVs and resumes, things to include (or not include) in cover letters, statements of teaching/research philosophy, etc.
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: This seminar will provide general information about sources of job listings, on-campus career fairs and other resources for job search and career development, our departmental “Job Market Candidates” webpage, and preparation for interviews. Much of the information will be relevant for both M.S. and Ph.D. candidates, but there will also be special attention paid to the practical aspects of negotiating the ASSA job market for Ph.D. candidates.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Yan Chen CV
"Recommending teams promotes giving"
Location: 2155 Marston Hall
Description: Strategies for managing your email inbox and processing email efficiently and effectively.
Limited to CALS and COE staff.
To Register: coe_edge@iastate.edu
Graduate students of all fields of economics:
Selected papers will be presented at the 11th Annual Economics Graduate Student Conference of Washington University, St. Louis
Oct. 22, 2016
Paper submission deadline: Aug. 12, 2016
Location: Gold Room, Memorial Union
Contact Person: Dawn Shedarowich, University Human Resources 515-294-4820
Register: Learn @ ISU: https://training.ehs.iastate.edu/IowaSU/site/
Online webinar - Multi-Week Course
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Karen Kelsky, PhD |
Online webinar:
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Laurie Johnson, PhD |
Location: Gold Room, Memorial Union
Contact Person: Dawn Shedarowich, University Human Resources 515-294-4820
Register: Learn @ ISU: https://training.ehs.iastate.edu/IowaSU/site/
International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Abstract deadline: June 7, 2016
Junior AAEA members, defined as those no more than five years beyond completion of their Ph.D., are invited to submit their expressions of interest (EOI) in attending.
Location: Washington, DC
EOI Submission: by March 10, 2016 to nberconf@cornell.edu.
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Online webinar:
Rahuldeep Gill, PhD |
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Amy Emmett
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Amy Emmett
Creating a Competitive Letter of Inquiry
A Webinar from the Foundation Center
ISU Foundation’s Cardinal Room
May 24
1:00-2:30
Please let us know if you plan to join us to ensure we have adequate space at cfr@foundation.iastate.edu
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Soumyadip Roy (Iowa State University)
"Health, Types of Leisure, and Time Allocation: Evidence from the ATUS data"
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Soil Management and Land Valuation Conference
Sponsored by the ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and ISU Extension and Outreach
Location: Scheman Building, ISU
Registration Fee (on or before May 4) - $100
Registration Fee (after May 4) - $110
For a whole week we will be teaching different aspects of the statistical software R.
Monday is for everybody, who always wanted to get started with R, but couldn't find the time.
Tuesday is a day of graphics,
Wednesday we will be doing some data wrangling.
Thursday morning, we have a DIY web application session with shiny. In the afternoon, we will finish our series with a cool new module on webscraping of data!
Location: 160 Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Wenwen Xi (Iowa State University)
"Model Specification Implied by Commodity Volatility Indices"
Contact Person: John Schroeter
International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences
Location: Venice, Italy
Abstract deadline: April 6, 2016
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Dirk Krueger
Dr. Krueger will speak on a convex combination of two papers:
Location: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract submission deadline: March 25, 2016
Ceremony in honor of Quinn Weninger as the inaugural recipient of the
John F. Timmons Endowed Professorship in
Environmental and Resource Economics
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Magne Mogstad
"The Economics of Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment of Individuals”
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Catherine Kling (ISU) "From Iowa Kid to NAS Member: Where the Study of Economics Has Taken Me"
Location: Sabin and Seerley Halls
University of Northern Iowa
Abstract submission deadline: March 25, 2016
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Frankel, David M.
Description: Global Games in Ames Conference
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Roger Underwood, Becker Underwood Inc, "Your future is short. Don’t waste it working for someone else"
Hosted by ISU, Iowa Network for Women in Higher Education
Location: Garden Room, Reiman Gardens and ISU Alumni Center
More information: http://www.iowawhe.org/homepage.html
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Zhixia Ma
"Firm Entry and Exit in a game of Incomplete Information"
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Carlos Asarta
Topic: McGraw-Hill Connect, an adaptive learning platform.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Timothy Guinnane
CALS Student Panel
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact person: RSVP by noon, March 23 to tncooper@iastate.edu.
Location: 1306 Elings Hall
Description: Hotelling Under Pressure
Location: 368A Heady
Description: Anna Mikusheva
"Conditional Inference with a Functional Nuisance Parameter"
Location:
368A Heady Hall
Contact Person:
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Francisco Buera (Chicago Fed)
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Michael Darden (Tulane University)
"Smoking and Mortality: New Evidence from a Long Panel"
Contact Person: David M. Frankel
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Mar Reguant (Northwestern)
"Using High-Frequency Interval Meter Data to Evaluate Energy Efficiency Investments in Schools"
Contact Person: Gabriel E. Lade
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Nancy Lutz, Program Director for Economics at the National Science Foundation
Lutz is in charge of the Economics Program in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences and is currently also a member of the coordinating committee for NSF's Science and Technology Centers Program. Her responsibilities include coordinating the review process, making funding recommendations, and participating in the development of new NSF initiatives.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location:368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
How to Navigate the Academic Job Market
The Art of Saying 'No'
Moving From Resistance To Writing
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall