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Auburn University

  • New Appointment: Joshua M. Duke, Chair and Professor
  • Awards: Ruiqing Miao, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, Emerging Scholar Award; Max W. Runge, Southern Risk Management Education and USDA NIFA, Project of Excellence Award (3rd place); Ali Dawood, Auburn University Graduate Council, Outstanding Doctoral Student; Valentina M. Hartarska, Society of Social Economics, 2019 Warren Samuels Prize for Outstanding Research
  • Positions Taken by Recent Graduate: Senakpon Kokoye, PhD, Quantitative risk modeler, Bank of the Ozarks

University of California, Davis

  • Awards: Karen del Mar Ortiz Becerra, UC Davis, Provost Dissertation Year Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the academic year 2019-20; Stephen Vosti, UC Davis, 2019 Chancellor’s Award for International Engagement 
  • Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Mo Alloush, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Hamilton College; Sam Bird, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Accounting, and Management, Luther College; Amanda Lindsay, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Accounting, and Management, Luther College; Jonathan Malacarne, PhD, Assistant Professor in the School of Economics, University of Maine; Laura Paul, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental Economics and Agri-Environmental Policy at The Center for Experimental & Applied Economics, University of Delaware; Emy Reimao, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Florida; Matthieu Stigler, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University 

University of Connecticut

  • Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Timothy Murray, PhD, Assistant Professor, Virginia Military Institute; Pengfei Liu, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island

University of Idaho

  • Appointment changes: Lorie Higgins, Professor; Paul Lewin, Associate Professor with Tenure; Christopher S. McIntosh, Department Head
  • Positions taken by recent graduates: Brett Wilder, MS, Rabo AgriFinance; Jeremy Rosenman,  MS, Research Associate
  • Award: Christoper S. McIntosh, WAEA, Fellow

International Food Policy Research Institute

  • Appointments: Malick Dione, Research Analyst; Shoumi Mustafa, Senior Research Coordinator; Rock Zagre, Research Analyst; Haleluya Tesfaye Gebru, Research Officer; Dieynab Diatta, Research Analyst; James Stevenson, Senior Research Fellow; Samyuktha Kannan, Research Analyst; Brendan Rice, Research Analyst; Shahidur Rashid, Director for South Asia Office
  • Awards: Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw, and Susan Godlonton, 2018 AARES-Wiley Blackwell Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics Award for Best Paper for their paper, "Measuring Post-harvest losses at the farm level in Malawi."

University of Kentucky

  • Awards: Mike Reed, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, Lifetime Achievement Award; Tim Woods and Alex Butler, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, Outstanding Extension Program Award; Ben Martin, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, Outstanding Masters Thesis Award (Major Professor, Tyler Mark)

University of Missouri

  • Awards: Scott Brown, LEAD21, Class of 2018-19; Laura McCann, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant, Tunisia, Fall 2019; Pat Westhoff, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Roger L. Mitchell Fellow

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • Appointment Changes: Simanti Banerjee, Associate Professor with Tenure; Kathleen Brooks, Associate Professor with Tenure; Chris Gustafson, Associate Professor with Tenure; Cory Walters, Associate Professor with Tenure

The Ohio State University

  • Awards: Brian Roe, The Ohio State University, Outstanding Service to Students Award at the College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), Celebration of Students Banquet; Tyler Morin, PhD Candidate, Southern Regional Science Association, Graduate Student Paper, Barry M. Moriarty Student Paper Competition Award, 1st Place, 2019

Purdue University

  • New Appointments: Gerald Shively, Associate Dean and Director of International Programs in Agriculture; Luciano Thome e Castro, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Retirement: Otto C. Doering III, 47 years of service

Texas Tech University

  • Appointment Change: Adam Martin, Associate Professor
  • Award: Ryan Blake Williams, Texas Tech University, Integrated Scholar Award

Virginia Tech

  • Awards: Namhoon Kim, American Council on Consumer Interests, Robert O. Hermann Outstanding Dissertation Award 2019; Richard Crowder, Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, Distinguished Alumni of the Corps Award 2019
  • Position Taken by Recent Graduate: Weizhe Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, SUNY Genesee; Grace Grossen, MS, Caroline County 4-H Program Assistant, 4-H
  • Visitors: Eashani Kandpal, Economist, Development Research Group, Guest Lecturer, April 2019

West Virginia University

  • Retirement: Tim Phipps, 30 Years of Service