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University of Arizona

  • New Appointments: Anna Josephson, Assistant Professor; Jeffrey Michler, Assistant Professor
  • Award: Anna Josephson, International Association of Agricultural Economics, Uma Lele Prize for Best Contributed Paper on Gender

University of California, Davis

  • Leaves: Colin Carter, sabbatical, one year; Julian Alston, sabbatical, one year; Richard Sexton, sabbatical, one year
  • Retirement: Lovell “Tu” Jarvis 34 years of service
  • Visitors: Francisco J. Velázquez, Professor, Complutense University of Madrid, visiting scholar, four months; Jacobo Núñez Serrano, PhD student, Autonomous University of Madrid, visiting scholar, four months; Chen Zhu, Associate Professor, China Agricultural University, visiting scholar, one year; Edoardo Baldoni, PhD student, Marche Polytechnic University, visiting scholar, one year

Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo

  • Appointment Changes: Marianne Wolf, Department Head; Christiane Schroeter, Professor

Economic Research Service (USDA)

  • New Appointment: Cynthia Nickerson, Associate Director
  • Retirements: Cheryl Christensen, 38 Years of Service; Linda Calvin, 37 Years of Service
  • Resignations: Elizabeth Gooch; Kari Heerman; Gustavo Ferreira

International Food Policy Research Institute

  • New Appointments: Kristi Mahrt, Senior Research Analyst; Leah Salm, Research Analyst; Roosmarijin Verstraeten, Research Coordinator; Julie Kurtz, Research Analyst; Josue Awonon, Research Analyst; Bastien Koch, Research Analyst; Cynthia Paz, Research Analyst; Heleene Tambet, Research Analyst
  • Awards: Tingju Zhu, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2018 “ENRE Best Publication – Natural Resources” award; Berber Kramer, CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, Scale-up funding for innovative pilot project; Yanyan Liu, CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, 2018 Inspire Challenge
  • Visitor: Rachel Gilbert, Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellow, October 1, 2018-August 31, 2019

Kansas State University

  • Appointment Changes: Elizabeth Yeager, Associate Professor; Dustin Pendell, Professor; Aleksan Shanoyan, Associate Professor
  • Retirement: Jeff Williams, 38 years of service

Louisiana State University

  • New Appointments: Lawson Connor, Assistant Professor; Danyi Qi, Assistant Professor

New Mexico State University

  • New Appointment:  Chadelle R.H. Robinson, Assistant Professor

University of Missouri

  • Appointment Change: Corinne Valdivia, D. Howard Doane Professor
  • Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Lijun “Angelia” Chen, PhD, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Florida; Bruno Varella Miranda, PhD, Research Fellow, Department of Management and Technology, University Bocconi, Milan, Italy
  • Visitors: Natalia Dubrova, Dnipro State Agrarian and Economic University; Oksana Kiforenko, Uman National University of Horticulture; Oksana Zamora, Sumy National Agrarian University; and Iuliia Samoilyk, Poltavea State Agrarian Academy; Ukraine, Visiting Scholars, August 2018- December 2018

The Ohio State University

  • New Appointment: Nicholas Dadzie, Lecturer
  • Visitors: Opeyemi Eyitayo Ayinde, Chair of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, October 2018 – July 2019; Wan, Yue, Visiting Scholar - Nanjing Agricultural University, China, August 31 – August 30, 2019

Purdue University

  • New Appointment: Luciano Castro, Clinical Associate Professor

Texas Tech University

  • Visitor: Duncan Walker, United States Military Academy Social Sciences Department, Seminar Presentation, Fall 2018

Virginia Tech

  • New Appointment: Julien Cadot, Collegiate Faculty Fellow
  • Award: Kevin Boyle, AERE, Fellow, 2016
  • Position Taken by Recent Graduate: Tyler Neff, M.S., Commodity Analyst, Smithfield Foods
  • Retirement: Jim Pease, 24 Years of Service
  • Visitors: Chad Bown, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Guest Lecturer, October 2018; Brian McCaig, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Guest Lecturer, August 2018; Allen Klaiber, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State University, Guest Lecturer, September 2018

University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • New appointment: Sarah Johnston,  Assistant Professor
  • Appointment Changes: Laura Schechter, Full Professor; Nicholas Parker, Associate Professor
  • Leave: Corbett Grainger - Norwegian School of Economics (Norges Høyenhoskole) in Bergen, September 2018 – August 2019