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April 04, 2018

Dr. Lee SchulzThe farm loss projections of Lee Schulz, assistant professor, were cited in an April 3, 2018 story "Iowa's Hog Farmers are Facing Losses Thanks to Trump's Trade War"  in Bloomberg.

April 04, 2018

2018 Dean's High Impact Award for Undergraduate Research
Application deadlines:
Summer 2018: April 16
Fall 2018: April 23

This information (and links to other opportunities, awards and scholarships) can be found at: https://las.iastate.edu/students/scholarships/

More information 

April 03, 2018

Celeste SwansonCeleste Swanson, ag bus senior, was recently selected as Senior Class President. She will be in charge of the Senior Class Council, which is part of the Student Alumni Leadership Council (SALC).

April 03, 2018

Dr. Alejandro PlastinaAlejandro Plastina, assistant professor, was selected as the recipient of the 2018 ANR Programming Innovation Award for developing a collaborative partnership with the Iowa Farm Business Association and using their farm-level data to evaluate the financial situation of Iowa farms, publish several extension articles (including an article in Choices Magazine and FMR 1892), and serve as the basis for most of his extension presentations. He received the award April 3, 2018.

April 02, 2018

Dr. Chad HartChad Hart, associate professor, was interviewed by China Daily March 30, 2018, for the story "China's ethanol demand remains strong."

"As China's gasoline-vehicle fleet has grown, gasoline and ethanol demand has risen sharply, and the government has announced a target to utilize a 10 percent ethanol blend by 2020," said Hart.

April 02, 2018

Jeff RoweJeff Rowe ('95 ag business), president, global seeds, North America and China, for Syngenta, spoke to a small audience at the Princeton (IL) Area Chamber of Commerce Ag Appreciation Breakfast in March, 2018.

April 02, 2018

E. Kwan Choi, professor, and Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, were the guests at the grad students' Coffee Hour: Know Your Faculty on March 30.

March 29, 2018

Instructors will want to download the grade center, grade history and course files from their courses prior to June 1 when access to Blackboard ends. These files are considered part of university records retention, according to the Records Retention website.

March 29, 2018

David Swenson, associate scientist, was interviewed by Jason Margolis, The World (Public Radio International), about research on the practice and prevalence of state educations systems training workers for specific employers (like John Deere or Caterpillar in the Midwest and Mercedes Benz in Alabama).

March 28, 2018

Dr. Alejandro PlastinaAlejandro Plastina, assistant professor, was interviewed for a March 27th story in Wallaces Farmer about the results from the 2018 Iowa Farm Custom Rate Survey.

March 27, 2018

2018 Cardinal Key inducteesTen students from the Department of Economics were inducted into the Cardinal Key Honor Society at the induction ceremony held Sunday, March 25, 2018 at the Iowa State University Alumni Center. Of the inductees, seven were ag business majors, two economics, and one business economics.

March 27, 2018

Dr. Dermot HayesDermot Hayes, professor, was quoted in two March 23, 2018 news stories:

March 27, 2018

Making its return back...ISU Innovation PRIZE
March 30-31, 2018

ISU Research Park, Core Facility

Calling all Iowa State faculty & staff!
The ISU Innovation PRIZE is an incentive competition at Iowa State University where developers, designers, marketers, problem-solvers, researchers, creatives and startup enthusiasts share ideas, form teams, and solve one of the three bold challenges! Are you ready to solve a Bold Challenge?

March 26, 2018

Dr. Peter Orazem, Dr. Jounjun Kim Peter Orazem, university professor, and Younjun Kim ('15 PhD economics), assistant professor, Southern Connecticut State University, wrote a March 22nd blogpost "You've got internet! - connecting rural areas" for the Oxford University Press's OUPblog. 

March 26, 2018

Dr. John LawrenceJohn Lawrence, interim vice president of ISU extension and outreach, has been appointed vice president of Iowa State University’s extension and outreach programs after a nationwide search.

March 26, 2018

Dr. Wendong ZhangWendong Zhang, assistant professor, had his paper "Do U.S. Anglers Care about Harmful Algal Blooms? A Discrete Choice Experiment of Lake Erie Recreational Anglers" in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

March 26, 2018

Kevin KimleKevin Kimle, senior lecturer, wrote the article "Investors Look to Disrupt Ag" for the March issue of Agri Marketing magazine.

March 26, 2018

Dr. Otavio BartalottiOtavio Bartalotti, assistant professor, joined the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, Germany as a Research Fellow in March, 2018. See his IZA profile

March 21, 2018

Dr. Alejandro PlastinaAlejandro Plastina, assistant professor, discussed by conference call the results of his study on the economics of cover crops (www.card.iastate.edu/conservation) with Sheldon R. Jones, Chief Operating Officer, the Soil Health Institute;

March 19, 2018

Dr. Leigh TesfatsionLeigh Tesfatsion, emeritus professor, has been appointed Research Professor by Iowa State University, effective March 1, 2018.

March 19, 2018

Dr. GianCarlo MoschiniGianCarlo Moschini, professor of economics, has been announced as the recipient of a $424,624 USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant. Federico Ciliberto of the University of Virginia and Edward Perry of Kansas State University are listed as Co-Project Directors.

March 19, 2018

Sebastien Pouliot and Lee SchulzSebastien Pouliot, associate professor, and Lee Schulz, assistant professor, have been announced as recipients of a $361,234 USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant. Pouliot is listed as project director and Schulz is listed as co-project director.

March 19, 2018

Georgeanne Artz, Kevin Kimle, Peter OrazemGeorgeanne Artz, assistant professor, Kevin Kimle, senior lecturer, and Peter Orazem, Peter Orazem, university professor, was interviewed by Jeff Angelo for the story "Why Are Iowa Workers Being Laid Off In A Hot Economy?" on WHO News Radio Nov. 16, 2018. They discussed the layoff of 400 workers in the Des Moines area by Wells Fargo.professor, have been announced as recipients of a $233,355 USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant.

March 13, 2018

Dr. Alejandro PlastinaAlejandro Plastina, assistant professor, along with Fernando Miguez, associate professor of agronomy; Fangge Liu and Wendiam Sawadgo, graduate students in economics; Guillermo Marcillo, graduate student in agronomy; and Sarah Carlson, the strategic initiatives director for Practical Farmers of Iowa, found substantial variability in net returns, driven by the costs of planting and terminating cover crops, feed cost savings from grazing cover crops, cost-share program payments, and the difference in yields obtained in fields with and without cover crops.

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