June 2018 Issue 13
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AAEA News 2018 AAEA Annual Meeting The deadline for Advanced Online Registration is July 9. All registions after the July 9 deadline will need to take place on-site at the Marriott Wardman Park Registration Desk on the Lobby Level. For the lowest prices, be sure to register for the 2018 AAEA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. today! Already registered but w ant to add a ticketed event? Contact the AAEA Business Office at(414) 918-3190 or email info@aaea.org |
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2018 AAEA Annual Meeting Monday, August 6, 2018, 8:00 am–8:30 am AAEA’s annual Business Meeting will be held during the annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on Monday, August 6 in Salon 2. This meeting gives members the chance to hear about the state of the association. Updates will be given by the AAEA President, the Finance Committee, and the AAEA Trust Committee. Additionally, Board members and Editors who are completing their terms will be recognized for their service. Lastly, those in attendance will be given an opportunity to voice any questions or concerns that they may have. We hope you’ll join us in Washington, D.C. Renew Your AAEA Membership for 2018 You can renew your AAEA membership for 2018 on the AAEA website. Simply log in to the “My Account” section to renew. Completing your renewal online saves you time by filling out most of the information for you automatically. The benefits of your AAEA membership only last through the spring of 2018, so be sure to renew soon to ensure that you keep receiving services from AAEA throughout the upcoming year. You will need to be a current AAEA member in order to vote in the Executive Board Election, which runs April 15-May 15. 2018 AAEA Annual Meeting Registration is now open for the 2018 Employment Center taking place August 5-7, during the 2018 AAEA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. New this year, AAEA will be hosting a Job Fair on Sunday, August 5, 2018. This half-day, in-person event will take place in the Employment Center from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. This is a great opportunity for employers to network informally with potential candidates. See the Job Fair website for details on how the Job Fair works and what agricultural and applied economists have to offer. For more information, please visit the online Employment Center. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Sarah Kenner. We hope to see you in D.C.! 2018 AAEA Annual Meeting During the 2018 Working with the Media session, AAEA members are encouraged to share their research with a new audience. Members will have a chance to openly speak to media personnel to discuss their hesitancy with participating in interviews. There will also be a few AAEA members who are well versed at being the expert for media interview requests. Interested in getting started with communicating to a broader audience or want to get advice from experts in the field, this is a session you won’t want to miss. Session Information: If you have any questions please contact Allison Scheetz, AAEA Senior Communications Manager at ascheetz@aaea.org. 2018 AAEA Annual Meeting Post-conference Workshop: Workshop Description: AAEA has engaged the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology to conduct a communications workshop for our members. This four hour workshop will be divided into two parts. The first part, termed Science Communication Fundamentals, focuses on the core components of successful public engagement. Participants are introduced to the AAAS public engagement framework, a guide they can apply to all kinds of interactions. Participants also learn how to identify a public engagement goal, determine the relevant audience, craft tailored messages to achieve their goal and rehearse their engagement scenario. This workshop includes both facilitator presentations and attendee exercises. August 8, 2018 Read more about all Pre- and Post-conference Workshops>> 2018 AAEA Annual Meeting: On behalf of the Undergraduate Student Section of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, we cordially invite you and your students to attend and participate in the 2018 AAEA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., August 5- 7. Our section offers a wide variety of professional development opportunities for undergraduate students of agricultural and applied economics:
CREDO Breakfast Meeting The Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO) is an international society of hundreds of economists, including agricultural economists, who are interested in the conversation between the Catholic faith and economic research as it applies to the economy, the Church, and broader society. (See https://credo-economists.org/ for more information.) This year, we are hosting the first meeting of this group at the AAEA meetings at a breakfast on Monday, August 6, 2018, from 9:00 am-10:30 am at a restaurant that has yet to be determined. The meeting and breakfast are preceded by an 8:00 am mass at St. Thomas Apostle Catholic Church, 2665 Woodley Rd., which is a short walk from the Washington Marriott Wardman Park. All are welcome at the breakfast meeting and mass. Please RSVP as soon as possible to Craig Gundersen (cggunder@illinois.edu ), so we can get an estimate on the number of attendees for the breakfast. In addition, please contact Craig with any questions, comments, etc., you may have. People Section
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Doctoral degree from the Iowa State University. He was a Professor at several universities, amount them University of Missouri-St. Louis and 20 years as a Department Head of Resource Economics at the University of Connecticut. He is survived by his wife Janet, his sister Eleni Pagoulatou and her children, friends and students. Donations to the University of MO St. Louis, Department of Economics, 1 University Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63121 appreciated. To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Emilio Pagoulatos please visit our Sympathy Store. Member Awards Dyson’s Wharton Award Written by Sandi Mulconry, a freelance writer for the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business; Photos by John Reis Uma Lele, MS ’63, PhD ’65, never considered herself a trailblazer—not when she became the first woman to earn a PhD in agricultural economics from Cornell and not when she became one of the first employees of the World Bank and the rare woman traveling on international missions in the 1970s. But her distinguished career of more than four decades as a leading independent scholar and development economist leaves no doubt that she has been just that. Other News Animal Law and Policy Small Grants Program at UCLA Law Thanks to generous funding from Bob Barker, UCLA Law School is pleased to offer the Animal Law and Policy Small Grants Program ("UCLA ALP Program"). The UCLA ALP Program exists to encourage new research, with the goal of developing better empirical bases from which to understand, evaluate, and pursue animal law reform. Applicants from a variety of academic disciplines - including economics, sociology, demography, social psychology, moral psychology, medicine, plant-based nutritional science, cognitive science, law, public health, and public policy - are encouraged to apply. The UCLA ALP Program has two goals: Fostering sound empirical - quantitative or qualitative - knowledge related to human uses of animals, alternatives to uses of animals, and humans' relationship to animals, which animal law and policy academics and practitioners could use to develop animal law and policy reform applications. Supporting empirical research that enables animal law and policy academics and practitioners to develop increasingly more sophisticated understandings of the impact of public policies and laws that affect animals directly or indirectly. Read more here: https://law.ucla.edu/centers/social-policy/animal-law-grants-program/about/ For questions, please contact the UCLA ALP Program through email: alp@law.ucla.edu. Transportation Research Board Agricultural and Food Transportation Committee Papers for the January 2019 Annual Meeting must be submitted electronically no later than August 1, 2018. Paper submission information is posted on the TRB website at: http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/ResourcePages.aspx 2018 FDRS Student Food Marketing Challenge The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Food Distribution Research Society will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Arlington, Virginia, from September 14th – September 18th 2018. The conference will be held in conjunction with United States Department of Agriculture, Farm Credit, Farmers Market Coalition, and National Value-Added Conference under the umbrella of the “2018 Direct Agricultural Marketing Summit.” USDA Workshop A workshop sponsored by The U.S. Department of Agriculture & The U.S. Department of Energy As the global population grows, so too does food demand as well as constraints on land and natural resources. By the year 2050, the world’s population will approach 10 billion people, and at least 2 out of 3 people will live in urban centers. With this increased urbanization comes the unique opportunity to develop engineering and agricultural innovations within urban systems that sustainably stimulate growth to help meet future needs. |
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