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University of California, Davis

  • Awards: J. Edward Taylor, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow; Ellen Bruno, Best 2018 PhD Dissertation and Gordon A. King Award, UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics; Xun Wang, Best 2018 MS Thesis, UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  • Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Xinzhe Cheng, PhD, Economist, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Maxime Depalle, PhD, Economist, Veolia; Alexandra E. Hill, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics with a specialization in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management, Colorado State University

University of Connecticut

  • New Appointment: Sandro Steinbach, Assistant Professor
  • Appointment Change: Eric Njuki, Assistant Research Professor
  • Resignation: Rebecca Boehm

University of Delaware

  • Award: Joshua M. Duke, United States Department of Agriculture Food and Agricultural Sciences, 2018 Excellence in Teaching Award, North East Region Winner

International Food Policy Research Institute

  • Appointments: Emerta Aragie, Associate Research Fellow; Himanshu Pathak, Research Analyst; Arkadeep Bandyopadhyay, Research Analyst; Bedru Balana, Research Fellow
  • Awards: Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences; Ousmane Badiane, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Fellow for the advancement of science in developing countries
  • Honorary Positions: Rob Vos, Distinguished Research Professor, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) in Ecuador; Anjani Kumar, Vice President, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics

Kansas State University

  • Retirement: G.A. (Art) Barnaby, Jr., 39 Years of Service

University of Kentucky

  • Awards:  Michael Reed, SAEA, Lifetime Achievement Award; Ben Martin, SAEA, Outstanding Masters Thesis Award

University of Maryland

  • Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: John Roberts, PhD, Research Analyst, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Juan Cristobal Ruiz Tagle, PhD, Postdoc, Environmental Defense Fund; Wenjun Wang, PhD, Associate, Agricultural Bank of China

University of Missouri

  • Appointment Change: Pat Westhoff, Howard Cowden Professor
  • Award: Ken Schneeberger, CAFNR Proud Award, College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, University of Missouri
  • Visitors: Joanna Stefanczyk, PhD candidate, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Visiting Scholar, January – June 2019; Bin Wu, PhD Lecturer, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Visiting Researcher, January – December 2019

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • Retirements: Jeffrey Royer, 29 Years of Service

The Ohio State University

  • Position Taken By Recent Graduate: Rodrigo Perez Silva, PhD in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Assistant Professor, Universidad Mayor
  • Award: Ian Sheldon, AAEA, 2019 Fellow
  • Visitor: Lubsan Shagdurov, Buryat State University, Buryatiya Republits, Russia, January 7, 2019 – October 7, 2019

Purdue University

  • Award: Wallace Tyner, AAEA, 2019 Fellow

Texas A&M University

  • Awards: Ron Lacewell, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M AgriLife Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence, Special Services; David Anderson, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Superior Service Award, Ranch Management Team; Yu Yvette Zhang, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Superior Service Award, Crapemyrtle Bark Scale Team
  • New Appointments: Justin Benavidez, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist; Francisco (Pancho) Abello, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist
  • Honorary Positions: Craig Carpenter, Associate Director of Economic Research, Texas Federal Statistical Research Data Center; Craig Carpenter, Annie E. Casey Foundation Rural Poverty Research Fellow, Rural Poverty Research Institution
  • Retirement: James Richardson, 41 years of service

Texas Tech

  • Award: Stephen Devadoss, SAEA, 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award

Virginia Tech

  • Award: Kevin Boyle, AAEA, 2019 Fellow
  • Position Taken by Recent Graduate: Chaoping Xie, PhD, Post Doc, Virginia Tech