Over 50 Recognized at 2024 AAEA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA
Awards six Fellows, and a two new appreciation club
Over 1,300 participated in the 2024 AAEA Annual Meeting which took place on July 28- July 30 at the New Orleans Marriot. On Monday, July 29, 2024, AAEA Awarded six Fellows, two appreciation clubs, and over 30 awards at this year’s Awards, Fellows & Appreciation Clubs Recognition Ceremony.
2024 Class of Fellows
- Titus Awokuse, Michigan State University
- Oral Capps, Texas A&M University
- Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Rachael Goodhue, University of California, Davis
- Tom Marsh, Washington State University
- Alfons Weersink, University of Guelph
2024 Appreciation Clubs
- Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University
- Jean-Paul Chavas, University of Wisconsin
2024 AAEA Award Winners
*Honorable mentions
| Outstanding Master's Thesis Award |
Tara Mittelberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison Zibo Jin, University of Minnesota Aaron Lorenz, University of Guelph *Audrey Rizk, University of Florida |
| Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award |
Jake Smith, Iowa State University *Sarah Smith, University of California, Davis |
Distinguished Teaching Awards:
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Na Zuo, University of Arizona *Nathan Kemper, University of Arkansas Brian Briggeman, Kansas State University Dixie Dalton, Virginia Tech |
Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Awards:
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Amy Hagerman, Oklahoma State University Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University Maria Marshall, Purdue University |
| Bruce Gardner Award |
Dana Hoag, Colorado State University Jesse Burkhardt, Colorado State University *Cesar Escalante, University of Georgia |
| Quality of Research Discovery Award |
Laura Tiehen, USDA Economic Research Service Dean Jolliffe, World Bank Juan Margitic, Inter-American Development Bank Martin Ravallion (Deceased) *Kathleen Segerson, North Carolina State University *Junjie Wu, North Carolina State University *Chunhua Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| Quality of Communication Award |
Carrie Litkowski, USDA Economic Research Service Tatiana Borisova, USDA Economic Research Service Jonathan Law, USDA Economic Research Service Dipak Subedi, USDA Economic Research Service Monika Ghimire, USDA Economic Research Service Katherine Lim, USDA Economic Research Service Kathy Kassel, USDA Economic Research Service |
| AAEA Mentoring Award | Marc Bellemare, University of Minnesota |
| Publication of Enduring Quality Award |
Tim Haab, The Ohio State University Kenneth McConnell, University of Maryland |
| Outstanding AJAE Article |
Jared Hutchins, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign *Anne Byrne, USDA-Economic Research Service *David Just, Cornell University |
| Outstanding AJAE Reviewers |
Margaret Jodlowski, Ohio State University William Ridley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Colette Salemi, University of Victoria Austin Ford Ramsey, University of Georgia |
| Outstanding AEPP Article |
Joseph P. Janzen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Trey Malone, University of Arkansas K. Aleks Schaefer, Oklahoma State University Daniel P. Scheitrum, Cal Poly |
| Outstanding Choices Article |
Dragan Milijkovic, North Dakota State University Frayne Olson, North Dakota State University |
| Outstanding AETR Article |
Jada M. Thompson, University of Arkansas Misti D. Sharp, University of Florida Jonathan C. Walton, University of Tennessee *Ruiqing Miao, Auburn University *Jerrod Penn, Louisiana State University & LSU Agricultural Center *Loka L. Ashwood, University of Kentucky |
| Presidential Recognition Award | Kristen McGuire, AAEA Executive Director |
| Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship | Suresh Kumar |
| McCorkle Scholarship | Piyush Gandhi |
| Uma Lele Women's Scholarship | Disha Gupta, India Gandhi Institute of Developement |
| AAEA Trust Travel Grants | 58 people received travel grant funds from the AAEA Trust |
| Academic Bowl Winners |
1st Place: LSU; Benjamin Goldstein, Riley LaSavia, Colin Raby 2nd Place: LSU; Blake Edwards, Ali Fontenot, Carlos Sandoval 3rd Place: TAMU; Maddison Esterak, Owen Gibson, John Hendrix |
| Outstanding Paper Competition |
1st place: Lars Rostad, University of Minnesota 2nd place: Ryanna Tietje, The Ohio State University 3rd place: Trent Claessens, University of Guelph |
| Outstanding Chapter Club | Iowa State University |
| Outstanding Creative Club | Oklahoma State University |
| GSS Policy Communications Competition |
1st Place: Anthony Caruso, Oklahoma State University 2nd Place: Azaz Zaman, Auburn University 3rd Place: Linge Yang, University of Connecticut |
| Case Study Competition |
1st Place: University of Arkansas (Andrew Dilley, Walker Davis, Makenzie McJunkins) 2nd Place: Kansas State University (Calder McCollum, Delide Joseph, Vera Adabrah-Danquah) 3rd Place: University of Florida (Meri Hambaryan, Kelvin Amon, Chenxi Hu) |
| Extension Competition |
1st place: Khashi Ghorbani, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2nd place: John Robinson, North Carolina State University 3rd place: Alexis Ghormley, Texas A&M University |
| Data Visualization Challenge |
1st Place: Walter Ac Pangán, Jiyeon Kim, Priyanka Sharma for the Heartland region 2nd Place: Vidalina Abadam, Sanchita Chakrovorty, Jennifer Kennedy for the Southeast region 3rd Place: Davidson Obilor Nwaonu, Elizabeth Thilmany, Jean Pierre Zavala Varela for the Northeast region |
| FAMPS Poster Competition |
Hannah Wich, Stephen F. Austin State University Jaime Luke, Kansas State University Kaitlyn L. Malakoff, Arizona State University |
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