Awards: Tatiana Marquez, First Place, 2014 USDA/NIFA, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, Food and Agricultural Sciences Masterʼs Thesis Award Competition
Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Hunter Richards, MS, Research Economist, The Balmoral Group, Orlando, Florida; Tatiana Marquez, MS, Environmental and Natural Resource Economist, National Park Service, Denver, Colorado
Return From Leave: Gary Thompson
University of California, Berkeley
Award: George Judge, Entropy Best Paper Award 2014 First Prize, "Entropy: The Markov Ordering Approach," Entropy, 2010, 12(5), 1145-1193
University of California, Davis
Awards: Joeri De Wit, UC Davis ARE Department, Gordon A. King Outstanding Dissertation Award for his dissertation entitled: "Economics of California's The Geysers – Geothermal Stream Field"; Joseph Janzen, UC Davis ARE Department, Gordon A. King Outstanding Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, for his dissertation entitled: "Three Essays on Price Discovery in the Cotton Futures Market."
Honorary Position: Lovell Tu Jarvis, Professor, Chair of the Chile California Council, 2013-14
Position Taken By Recent Graduate: Kate Fuller, PhD, Assistant Professor, Montana State University, July 2014
Colorado State University
Leave: James Prittchett, Faculty-in-Residence, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand, January-July 2014
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
New Appointments: Hope Michelson, Assistant Professor; Christine Richmond, Assistant Professor; John Newton, Clinical Assistant Professor
Retirement: Rob Hornbaker, 29 years
International Food Policy Research Institute
New Appointments: Jarilkasin Ilyasov, Research Analyst; Yukie Forman, Travel Assistant; Malika Shampine, Human Resource Coordinator; Deirdre Launt, Graphic Designer; Rachael Brown, Sr. Research Assistant; Ikram Lakhdhar, Program Assistant; Jay Papisan, Sr. Research Analyst; Vijay Nazareth, Sr. Research Assistant; David Cozac, Communications Specialist; Nyllan Fye, Program Assistant; Arame Tall, Associate Research Fellow; Cristina Perez, Knowledge Management Systems Coordinator; Erica Smith, Intern; Jane Lole, Senior Research Assistant; Gao Lang, Sr. Research Assistant; Silu Zhang, Administrative Coordinator
Awards: Shenggen Fan, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, World Food Programme, Hunger Hero Award, in recognition of his commitment to and leadership in fighting hunger worldwide; Sam Dryden, Fellow Award, Senior Fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Marc Van Ameringen, Fellow Award, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).
Honorary Positions: Pramod Kumar Joshi, 2014 President of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, Mumbai and 2014 President of the 28th Conference of Indian Society of Agricultural Marketing, Hyderabad; Alexander Saak, Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Kansas State University
Award: Glynn Tonsor, SAEA Outstanding Extension Program Award
Michigan State University
Position Taken by Recent Graduate: Jacob Coulibaly, MS, Lecturer, Katibougou Rural Polytechnic Institute for Training and Applied Research, Department of Socio-economics at Mali’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mali
Mississippi State University
New Appointment: Alba Collart, Assistant Extension Professor
Award: Matt Interis, 2014 SAEA Emerging Scholar Award
Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Evan Spencer, BS, USA Rice, Manager, Economic and Policy Analysis; Walt Stevens, BS, named city president for Regions Bank, Greenville, MS
Honorary Positions: Barry Barnett, Professor, President, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
Resignation: James C. (Corey) Miller
University of Missouri
Awards: Abner Womack, American Farm Bureau Federation, Distinguished Service Award; Kateryna Goychuk Schroeder, AAEA Sylvia Lane Mentor Fellowship
Honorary Position: William Meyers, Scientific Advisory Board, Leibniz Institute of Agriculture Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
Visitor: Maryline Filippi, Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques de Bordeaux Aquatine: Bordeaux Sciences Agro (ex ENITAB), Visting Researcher, January–August, 2014; Elena Garnevska, Senior Lecturer in Agribusiness, Massey University, Visiting Researcher, January-June, 2014
North Dakota State University
Award: Cheryl J. Wachenheim, College of Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural
Resources, William J. and Angelyn A. Austin Excellence in Advising Award
Visitor: Myong Hyun Kim, Student, Korea University, visiting student, August, 2014
The Ohio State University
Leave: Dr. Brent Sohngen, Special Research Assignment, Oregon State University, Spring Semester 2014
Awards: Kim Anderson, SAEA Lifetime Achievement Award; Jody Campiche, named Southern Agricultural Economics Association Director (2014-2017); Shannon Ferrell, American Agricultural Law Association Board of Directors; Bailey Norwood, Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources James A. Whatley Award for Meritorious Research in Agricultural Science; Dave Shideler, 2013 Bonnie Teater Community Development Early Career Achievement Award from the Southern Rural Development Center
Texas A&M University
Awards: John Nichols, SAEA Lifetime Achievement Award; Dean McCorkle, Dan Hanselka, David Anderson, Steven Klose, John Robinson and Mark Waller, SAEA Outstanding Extension Program Team Award, Economic Impact Analysis; DeDe Jones, Jay Yates and Dean McCorkle, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Superior Service Award
Positions Taken By Recent Graduates: Kasey Deanne Amor, MS, Investment Banking Analyst, Avalon; Devin Richard Peterson, MS, Agricultural Consultant, Cooper Norman; David Magana Lemus, PhD, Economic Research Specialist, FIRA Banco de Mexico; Christopher Scott Rowland, PhD, Fundamental Analyst, Chevron Downstream & Chemicals; Marta Wlodarz, PhD, Post-Doctorate, ETH Zurich University; Kelli Barnes, MS, Global Procurement Analyst, PepsiCola Company; Lucas Balustein, MS, Global Procurement Analyst, PepsiCola Company; Matthew Cleaver, MS,
Consultant, Roll Global; Natalia Correa, MS, Strategy Analyst, U.S. Products Exchange; Fangfang He, MS, Policy Analyst, AgriLogic; Lauren James, MS, Relationship Analyst, RaboBank; Jeremy Maupin, MS, Production, TXL Mortgages; Tyler McGee, MS, Infrastructure Service Delivery Manager, Syngenta; Emmanuelle Revole, MS, Market Analyst, Texas Engineering Extension Service; Yan Wang, MS, Transfer Pricing Intern, Weatherford
USDA-Economic Research Service
New Appointments: Kari Heerman, Research Agricultural Economist, Market and Trade Economics Division; Lindsay Kuberka, Agricultural Economist, Market and Trade Economics Division; Alex Melton, Agricultural Economist, Market and Trade Economics Division; Sahar Angadjivand, Agricultural Economist, Market and Trade Economics Division
Award: Ronald Trostle, USDA Economists, W. Fred Woods Award for Excellence in Economic Policy Research and Education
Retirement: Richard Stillman, 33 years of service
Washington State University
New Appointments: Jinhui Bai, Associate Professor
Appointment Changes: Andrew Cassey, Associate Professor with tenure; Ana Espinola, Associate Professor with tenure; R. Karina Gallardo, Associate Professor with tenure; Felix Munoz, Associate Professor with tenure
Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Rebekah Schrader, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Cal State University, Stanislaus; Ben Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Jadrian Wooten, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Penn State University