Presidential Recognition Award for Special Service to the Association
Julia Kelly and Louise Letnes, AgEcon Search
Outstanding Master's Thesis Awards
David Kaczan, University of Alberta, “Designing an incentive program to reduce on-farm deforestation in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania,” Thesis Advisors: Brent Swallow and Wiktor (Vic) Adamowicz
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth A. Dobis, Purdue University, “A Sociodemographic Analysis of Health Care Utilization in the United States,” Thesis Advisor: Raymond J.G.M. Florax
Honorable Mention: Zachary Kaufman, Pennsylvania State University, “Agricultural Best Management Practice Adoption Decisions and Spatial Dependence in Southeastern Pennsylvania Farms and Watersheds,” Thesis Advisor: Jayson K. Harper
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards
Zachary Steven Brown, Duke University, “The Economics of Malaria Vector Control,” Thesis Advisor: Randall Kramer
Honorable Mention: Gulcan Onel, North Carolina State University, “Modeling Nonlinearities in Agricultural Factor Markets,” Thesis Advisor: Barry Goodwin
Distinguished Teaching Awards
Less Than Ten Years' Experience: Michael A. Gunderson, University of Florida
Undergraduate Teaching, Ten or More Years' Experience: Stephen Devadoss, University of Idaho
Graduate Teaching, Ten or More Years' Experience: Terry Roe, University of Minnesota
Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Awards
Individual, Less Than Ten Years' Experience: Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University
Individual, Ten or More Years' Experience: Thomas Stinson, University of Minnesota
Group: Tim Eggers, Robert Wells, and Kelvin Leibold, Iowa State University; Mary Sobba and Karisha Devlin, University of Missouri; Ruth Hambleton, University of Illinois (retired)
Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis
Joseph Herriges, Catherine Kling, Daniel Otto, and John Downing, Iowa State University; Kevin Egan, University of Toledo
Quality of Communication Award
Colin Carter, University of California, Davis; Ian Sheldon, The Ohio State University, “Genetically Modified Food and Global Welfare”
Honorable Mention: Wallace E. Huffman, Iowa State University; George Norton, Virginia Tech University; Luther Tweeten, The Ohio State University, “Investing in a Better Future through Public Agricultural Research”
Honorable Mention: John Baffes, The World Bank, “Cotton Subsides, the WTO, and the 'Cotton Problem'”
Quality of Research Discovery Award
John Antle, Oregon State University, “Parsimonious Multi-Dimensional Impact Assessment”
Honorable Mention: Richard E. Just, University of Maryland; David R. Just, Cornell University, “Global Identification of Risk Preferences with Revealed Preference Data”
Outstanding American Journal of Agricultural Economics Article Award
Stacy Sneeringer and Nigel Key, USDA-Economic Research Service, “Effects of Size-Based Environmental Regulations: Evidence of Regulatory Avoidance”
Honorable Mention: Kira M. Villa, Christopher B. Barrett, and David R. Just, Cornell University, “Whose Fast and Whose Feast? Intrahousehold Asymmetries in Dietary Diversity Response Among East African Pastoralists”
Outstanding Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Article Award
Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Brent Kreider, Iowa State University; John Pepper, University of Virginia, “The Economics of Food Insecurity in the United States”
Outstanding Choices Article Award
Todd Kuethe, Jennifer Ifft, and Mitch Morehart, USDA-Economic Research Service, “The Influence of Urban Areas on Farmland Values”
Honorable Mention: Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service, “Potential Challenges of Beginning Farmers and Ranchers”
Publication of Enduring Quality Award
Charles R. Knoeber and Walter N. Thurman, North Carolina State University, “Testing the Theory of Tournaments: An Empirical Analysis of Broiler Production”
AAEA Trust Scholarship Awards
Chester O. McCorkle, Jr. Student Scholarship
David Ortega, Purdue University
Sylvia Lane Mentor Fellowship
Kathryn Boys, Virginia Tech
Mariah Ehmke, University of Wyoming
R. Karina Gallardo, Washington State University
Aine Seitz McCarthy, University of Minnesota
Luther G. Tweeten Scholarship
Julia Berazneva, Cornell University
Kepifri Lakoh, University of Nebraska
Romina Ordonez
AAEA/AARES Young Professionals Exchange Program—Heading North and Heading South Award Winners
Joanna Parks, Food and Drug Administration
Tess Stafford, University of New South Wales
LDC Travel Grant
Mohammad Alam, Bangladesh Agricultural University
Heman Lohano, Institute of Business Administration
Jacob Nunoo, University of Cape Coast
Patrick Okello, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS)
Mary Lubungu, Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI)
Graduate/Undergraduate Student Competitions
Graduate Student Case Study Competition
First Place: Kansas State University—Brady Brewer, Melissa Lynes, and Rebecca Manes
Second Place: University of Georgia—Virginia Allison, Kayla Calhoun, and Ganna Sheremenko
Third Place: Oklahoma State University—Trent Milacek and Johnna Rushin.
Graduate Student Extension Competition
First Place: Madilynne McGuire, Colorado State University
Second Place: Chris Chammoun, Texas A&M University
Third Place: Arun Adhikari, Louisiana State University
Outstanding Undergraduate Paper Awards
First Place: Nathan Schmitt, University of Georgia
Second Place: Zeke Bryant, University of Georgia
Third Place: Heather Hatzenbuhler, University of Georgia
Academic Bowl Awards
First Place: Iowa State University—Josh Sonnabend, Tory Mogler, and Andy Chamra
Second Place: University of Georgia—Heather Hatzenbuhler, Zeke Bryant, and Nate Schmitt
Third Place: University of Florida-Blue—Austin Gerber, Fanny Wong, and Perry Sweitzer
