Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

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News in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

• Congratulations to Dr. Dana Hoag, who was named a Distinguished Scholar of the Western Agricultural Economics Association in 2009. He now joins Dr. John Loomis as the second current DARE faculty member so named.

• Congratulations to all of our Spring, 2009 graduates!

• Congratulations to Dr. Craig Bond, awardee of the 2009 Charles N. Shepardson Faculty Teaching Award!

• Congratulations to Dr. James Pritchett, awardee of the Western Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (less than 10 years experience)!

• Welcome to new faculty members Dr. Stephan Kroll and Dr. Kellie Enns!

• Best wishes to Dr. Gorm Kipperberg and Dr. Yuko Onozaka on thier new appointments in Norway!

• Dr. Chris Goemans is spending the summer as a visiting scholar at the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation.

• Dr. James Pritchett received the 2008 Charles N. Shepardson/NACTA Meritorious Teaching Award. Congratulations!

• Dr. Chris Goemans will present "The Medium Term Impact of Natural Disasters in Brazil" at the Interdisciplinary Water Resources Seminar Spring 2008, on Thursday, April 17 from Noon to 1PM in the Lory Student Center, Room 2003.

• Dr. Chris Goemans is among the "best minds" presenting at a symposium on global warming"Global Warming and Developing Countries: Addressing and Coping with the Challenge" at Williams College April 10-11.

• Colorado State University Retirement & Service Milestones (2007-08): Norman L. Dalsted, 30 years; Jerry B. Eckert, 35 years; Stephen R. Koontz, 10 years; Andrew F. Seidl, 10 years; and Dawn D. Thilmany, 10 years.

• Welcome to new faculty Marco Costanigro, Chris Goemans, and Greg Graff!

• DARE News and Views

• A new online Agricultural Business degree completion program was recently announced! See http://www.learn.colostate.edu/degrees/agricultural-business.dot for more details.

• Ag Adventure, a student-run and organized program educating children about agriculture, thrills thrid graders from the Poudre School District.

• The Ag Adventure program was named “Outstanding Education Exhibit” at the 2008 National Western Stock Show. Ag Adventure, a student-run program introduces all aspects of agriculture to elementary-aged children. The group, supervised by Marshall Frasier, hopes to expand the program to other functions such as State-Fair in Pueblo.

• Recent job listings and internship opportunities are available in DARE News and Views newsletters.

• Changes to the All University Core Curriculum (AUCC) have been approved, and will be effective for Fall, 2007. Details of the transition can be found here.

• Colorado State University Unveils First Scientific-Based Organic Production Undergraduate Program in the Country

• Dr. John Loomis has been appointed the acting Graduate Coordinator while Dr. Andy Seidl is in Europe.

• The inaugural Ag and Resource Economics and Economics Department Graduate Research Symposium has been sheduled for February 6, 2009. Submissions are due to Dave Gebbon by 11:59 PM on Jan 3, 2009.

• Dr. Andrew Seidl has been appointed the our new Graduate Coordinator. Many thanks to Dr. Dana Hoag for his years of service in this capacity.

• Updated Ph.D. requirements, including field exam topic lists and procedures, have been posted here.

• Congrats to Sarah Cline (Dr. Andy Seidl, mentor) and Jenny Thorvaldson (Dr. James Pritchett, mentor) for being selected as finalists for the AAEA Graduate Student Extension Competition.

• Check out our "DARE in the News" page for reporting on our research and other efforts.

• Colorado State Cooperative Extension Employees Honored by Epsilon Sigma Phi

• Colorado State University Cooperative Extension Presents Annual Honors

• The article "A Joint Estimation Method to Combine Dichotomous Choice CVM Models Corrected for Truncation and Endogenous Stratification," by Juan Marcos Gonzales, John Loomis, and Armando Gonzalez-Cabon, has been choosen as the 2008 Outstanding Journal Article by the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics! Congratulations!

• The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at CSU is a member of an international team of universities recently awarded a $5.5 million grant from USAID to study water, agriculture, and technology transfer in India and Afghanistan.

• People Spend Hundreds to Climb Fourteeners

• Tourism Promotion, Loyal Consumers of Colorado Wine Essential to Market Growth, Colorado State Study Finds 

• Devising Ways for Farms to Survive During Dry Times Subject of $500,000 Grant to Colorado State University

• Congratulations to Adam Smith and Amanda Zeihl on their engagement. They both were graduate students here a few years ago and are now working in Georgia. Their wedding is June 21, 2008.

• Congratulations to Lindsey Ellingson! She has accepted an Assistant Professor or Lecturer position at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. She will be starting the end of February and teaching undergraduate and graduate microtheory as well as working with water allocation issues.

• Recent job listings are available in DARE News and Views newsletters.

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