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Neil E. Harl, emeritus professor, will be featured on the Successful Farming Radio Magazine in a program entitled, "Farm Estate and Business Planning," on Aug. 8, 9, 10 and 11...
Economics department alumnus Subhra Bhattacharjee married Alexander Reitmeyer on July 19, 2016 in Kolkata, India. Subhra, who is a recent PhD student of Cathy Kling and Joydeep Bhattacharya, works in Jerusalem for the United Nations. Several other department alumni attended the event. Shown in photo, left to right: Ritwik Banerjee (MS), Monisankar Bishnu (PhD), Subhra, Joydeep, and Min Wang (PhD).
Chad Hart, associate professor, was interviewed by Charity Nebbe on Talk of Iowa, Iowa Public Radio, on how farm sizes in Iowa and the U.S. have doubled in the last 100 years.
David Swenson, associate scientist had two interviews last week: In the Des Moines Register about the $8 million tax break for Prestage Farms...
Helen Jensen, Brent Kreider, Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy, and colleagues (Kim Greder at ISU and John Pepper at the University of Virginia) were awarded a $74,989 grant by the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research...
Edelman, Mark. "Addressing Rural Equity Capital Gaps for Strategic Development." selected paper presented at Community Development Society (CDS)...
ISU alumnus, Thomas Sutherland, has died in Ft. Collins, CO at age 85. He was released in 1981 after being held hostage by Islamic terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon for six years.
Chad Hart, associate professor, was interviewed by Aerin Curtis, Feednavigator.com, about how the hot weather in July is affecting feed crop growth and development.
Mark Edelman, professor, was interviewed by ISU News Service about the Solidarity Microfinance program.
David Swenson, associate scientist had several media interviews recently:
Adriana Valcu-Lisman, postdoc, and her husband Jeff welcomed little Ana Sophia who arrived Thursday morning at 9:53 am. Ana weighs 6 lbs 9 oz and was 19-1/2 inches long. Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to Miyoung Oh, postdoc, and her husband Jiwoong Kim, who welcomed their newest family member on July 17th! Baby Joshua joins his older brother Isaac and sister Emma. All are doing well.
David Swenson, associate scientist, talked with Brian Morelli, Cedar Rapids Gazette, about how to measure the ostensible effectiveness of area regional development organizations...
The 2015 Iowa Land Value Survey conducted by Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, and CARD was cited in an article by Courtney Fiorini, Mason City Globe Gazette.
David Frankel, associate professor, had an op ed piece, "What's Happening to Obamacare?" published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Once again this year, CARD will be hosting an alumni reunion during the 2016 AAEA Annual Meeting in Boston.
Peter Orazem, university professor, answered questions about Tyson Foods' motivations concerning their recently closed plant in Cherokee, IA in an article in the Des Moines Register.
Professor Wallace Huffman's, 2015 research on consumers' willingess to pay for GMO potatoes was cited in a Des Moines Register article on companies working on creating foods that improve health.
Dermot Hayes, professor, was interviewed by Jennifer Carrico of the High Plains Journal on the impact of the Trans-Pacific agreement on U.S. pork exports.
Wallace Huffman, professor, and Jonathan McFadden.
Another enrollment record has been set this summer, with 11,942 students attending the summer sessions. That's an increase of 306 students over last summer's previous record. The growth is in students learning online. The subset of students enrolled only in online or other distance options increased 431, up to 3,388 students this summer.
Otavio Bartalotti, assistant professor, presented the paper "Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Sharp Regression Discontinuity Designs with the Uniform Kernel," Otavio Bartalotti, Gray Calhoun, and Yang He, at two recent conferences.
The Undergraduate Programs Office completed freshman 2-day summer orientation sessions in June. Ninety-four ag business and six economics freshmen attended.
Keri Jacobs, assistant professor, worked with Iowa Institute for Cooperatives this spring to develop and host the first annual Iowa Cooperative Intern Day at the Monsanto Learning Center on Thursday, June 23.
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