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The results of the 2017 Iowa Farmland Ownership Tenure Survey conducted by ISU Extension and Outreach were announced June 28 at 10 a.m. in the Horton Room of the ISU Alumni Center.
Otavio Bartalotti, assistant professor, presented the paper “A Correction for Regression Discontinuity Designs with Group-Specific Mismeasurement of the Running Variable,” at the North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, at UC-Davis June 21-24, 2018.
Chad Hart, associate professor, was quoted in a June 22nd story in The Gazette about interest rates and beginning farmers.
Wallace Huffman, professor, made two paper presentations:
Leigh Tesfatsion, "Electric Power Markets in Transition: Agent-Based Modeling Tools for Transactive Energy Support," Chapter 13 (pp.
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David Swenson, associate scientist, talked with Washington Post reporter Todd Frankel for a story about Ames’ lowest-in-the-nation unemployment rate and whether the effects of that low rate are evident.
Alum Nathan Kauffman ('12 PhD econ) has been promoted to vice president of the Kansas City Fed.
Sebastien Pouliot and Chad Hart, associate professors, were interviewed for a June 15th Des Moines Register story "Experts: Trump's latest tariffs put increased risk into already uncertain Iowa economy.
Sebastien Pouliot, associate professor, was interviewed by Danny Lawhon, Des Moines Register, about the impact of steel and aluminum tariffs on companies, such as Indian Motorcycles in Spirit Lake.
Alejandro Plastina, assistant professor was quoted in a June 7 ArgiNews news brief:
Rental rates for Iowa farmland increased for the first time since 2013, according to a survey conducted by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
Dermot Hayes, professor, was quoted in a June 11 Forbes article "Evidence That New Tariffs, Not Immigrants, Are Costing Jobs."
Just a reminder that, effective April 26, 2018, Iowa State has replaced Travel & Transport with two new contracted travel agencies—Corporate Travel Partners (CTP) and Key Travel.
The impact for faculty travel is limited. As always, travelers can book their own travel directly with airlines or use their preferred travel agencies so long as they pay using a personal credit card (and not an ISU P-card).
June is a busy month for academic advisers Amy Brandau, Ebby Luvaga, and Ron Deiter.
Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, was interviewed by The New Food Economy for a story on how almost 40 percent of all farmland is rented out by non-farming landlords.
This year, Iowa State's theme at the fair, Thursday, August 9th – Sunday, August 19th, is “Design within Reach. Innovation for Iowa’s Future”, with our partner the Department of Architecture. The exhibit will include interactive displays and highlights the technology that we have here on campus. Additionally, we will have our ever-popular Cyclone tattoos, football posters, daily drawings, and the University Book Store’s Iowa State merchandise.
Chad Hart, associate professor, was interviewed by Donnelle Eller, for the June 4th Des Moines Register story "Low prices, trade disputes sow fears of '80s-style farm crisis."
Members of the economics department and the Economics Club attended the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders' meeting in Omaha on May 5, 2018.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) offers the following pre-award resources to assist faculty and staff in planning and preparing competitive grant applications.
Search for Funding Opportunities
The Office of the Vice President for Research provides links to resources for finding funding opportunities. CALS provides the following supplemental resources.
Dermot Hayes, professor, has agreed to do an interview next week, during the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, with Betsy Jibben, national reporter for Farm Journal Media on how U.S.-China trade tensions could impact pork prices.
Joydeep Bhattacharya, professor, (with coauthors Richard C. Barnett and Mikko Puhakka) had his paper "Private versus public old-age security" published in J Popul Econ (2018) 31:703–746 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0681-9.
Kelly and Assistant Professor Lee Schulz are the proud parents of Myron Carter, born May 28 at 7:07 a.m. Myron, who joins big sister Isla, weighed in at 8 lb. 1.5 oz. and measured 21 in. long.
Chad Hart, associate professor, did media interviews recently with:
KCCI reporter Laura Terrell about Chinese tariffs on May 29.
Danny Lawhon, Des Moines Register, about the production of industrial hemp and what that means for Iowa farmers.
Joshua Rosenbloom, professor and department chair, recently received a $229 thousand grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Implementing Effective Sharing of Research Data.
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