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University of Idaho

  • Appointment Changes:  Patrick Hatzenbuehler, Associate Professor/Extension Specialist

International Food Policy Research Institute

  • New Appointments: Abdallah Tarek, Senior Research Assistant; Valencia Wenqian Xu, Research Analyst; Kinya Kaibunga, Research Officer; Linda Steinhuebel-Rasheed, Research Fellow
  • Resignations: Ehtesham Ul Haq; Oliver Kiptoo Kirui; Abdul Wajid Rana; Robert Baguma; Anuj Srivastava; Samyuktha Kannan; Shahnila Dunston
  • Visitors: Dr. Soo-Jin Choo, Dr. Gaeun Kim – March 27; Dr. Kristofer Hamel – April 3

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Honorary Position: Sandy Dall’Erba, President of the North American Regional Science Association 2024-2025
  • Retirement: Alex Winter-Nelson, 32 years of service

University of Missouri

  • Retirement: Scott Brown, 37 years of service
  • Awards: Alan Spell, University of Missouri Office of the Provost, Provost’s Award for Creative Extension Programming by New Faculty; Corinne Valdivia, University of Missouri System, C. Brice Ratchford Memorial Fellowship Award
  • New appointment: Alejandro Plastina, associate professor of agricultural finance and director of the Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center
  • Appointment change: Stephen Mukembo, assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics and director of the McQuinn Center

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • New Appointments: Asa B. Stone, Assistant Research Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Renata Ramsaite, Assistant Research Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Appointment changes: Kathleen Brooks, Professor and Department Head, Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Simanti Banerjee, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Christopher Gustafson, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Elliott Dennis, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Glennis McClure, Extension Educator, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Positions taken by recent graduates: Jessica Windh, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho; Maroua Afi, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Returns from leave: Fabio Mattos and Daniela Mattos
  • Retirement: Larry Van Tassell