Christopher Pudenz, second year Ph.D. student, was chosen to receive the 2019 Tim Galm Graduate Scholarship in Agricultural Economics. The $5,000 scholarship rewards promising Department of Economics graduate students with a focus on Agricultural Economics.
Pudenz has been working as a research assistant with Lee Schulz. His research has been related to livestock economics, with an emphasis on animal health economics and the economics of biosecurity adoption. He also has an interest in livestock marketing, with a paper co-authored with Dr. Schulz pertaining to price discovery in the cattle market currently under review.
The Galm scholarship was established by Molly G. Mulqueen, in memory of her husband, Tim Galm ('74 MS ag econ). Galm's first job after Iowa State was as a farm management specialist for the Iowa State University Extension Service in northwest Iowa.