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Auburn University

Awards: Richard Sexton, University of California, Davis, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Award of Distinction; Tor Tolhurst, WAEA, Outstanding Graduate Paper Award
Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Anubhab Gupta, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Davis; Natalie Popovich, PhD, Senior Scientific Engineering Associate, Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Visitors: Hector Nuñez, Associate Professor, Center for Research & Teaching in Economics (CIDE), visiting scholar, one year; Emmanuel Paroissien, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), visiting researcher; Jessie Lin, Doctoral Researcher, University of Goettingen, visiting graduate student; Dejene Gizaw Kidane, PhD student, University of Tromsø, visiting graduate student

New Appointments: Yukiko Hashida, Assistant Professor; Dan Remar, Assistant Professor; Will Secor, Assistant Professor
Position Taken by Recent Graduate: Soye Shin, PhD, Research Fellow, Program in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School
Honorary Position: Jeffrey Dorfman, State Fiscal Economist, State of Georgia

New appointments: Mehrab Bakhtiar, Associate Research Fellow; Susana Constenla, Research Analyst; Laura Pompano, Associate Research Fellow; Chloe van Biljon, Research Analyst; Racine Ly, Research Coordinator; Rachel Gilbert, Research Analyst; Abenezer Wondwosen Abera, Research Officer; Seid Yimam Mohamed, Research Officer
Honorary position: Valerie Mueller, Nonresident Fellow

Visitor: Jong-Jin Kim, Senior Research Fellow, Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI), Visiting Scholar with FAPRI, September 2019 through August 2020.

New Appointment: Maryfrancis “Frannie” Miller, Assistant Professor; Madhav Regmi, Assistant Professor; Greg Torell, Assistant Professor
Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Joram Robbs, Master of Agriculture in Agribusiness, Marketing Director, Olsen Feedstores, Arizona; Fayth Franzoy, Master of Agriculture in Agribusinss, Field Representative, New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, New Mexico

Appointment Change: W. Scott Downey, Professor
New Appointment: Maria Marshall, co-editor AAEA Choices Magazine, effective January 1, 2020; Mindy Mallory, editor Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy (AEPP)

New Appointments: John Bovay, Assistant Professor; Charlotte Emlinger, Assistant Professor; Jennifer Friedel, Virginia Land Use Value Assessment Program Director and Professor of Practice; Chanita Holmes, Assistant Research Professor; Patrick Kayser, Virginia Use Value Analyst; Shamar Stewart, Assistant Professor; Wei Zhang, Assistant Professor
Appointment Change: Kimberly Morgan, Associate Professor
Awards: Mary Marchant, AAEA, Quality of Communication Award 2019; Kimberly Morgan, AAEA, Outstanding Teaching <10 years Award 2019; Santa Rosario de Jesus, AAEA, Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award 2019; Mike Ellerbrock, Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Diversity and Inclusion Service Award 2019
Position Taken by Recent Graduate: Ryan Spech, MS, Crude Trading Analyst, ExxonMobil
Resignations: Wen You
Visitors: Honorable Mahendra Siregar, Indonesian Ambassador to the United States, Indonesian Embassy, Guest Lecturer, September 2019