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2024 Academic Bowl Finals
Monday, July 29
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm

The Academic Bowl Competition will be held on Monday, July 29 at 8:00 am – 2:00 pm.

AAEA Annual Awards Fellows, & Appreciation Club Recognition Ceremony to immediately follow.


AAEA Annual Awards Fellows, & Appreciation Club Recognition Ceremony
Monday, July 29
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The AAEA Annual Awards and Fellows Ceremony recognizes professional excellence in agricultural and applied economics. Students, early career professionals, and experienced members are selected on the basis of their achievements in research, teaching and extension activities. It also recognizes AAEA Fellows, AAEA's most prestigious honor.

2024 Fellows


Titus Awokuse
,
Michigan State University
 

Oral Capps
,
Texas A&M University

Steven Deller
,
University of Wisconsin
-Madison

Rachael Goodhue
,
University of California, Davis

Tom Marsh
,
Washington State University


Alfons Weersink
,
University of Guelph

2024 Appreciation Club


Jayson Lusk

Jean-Paul Chavas

2024 AAEA Award Winners

*Honorable mentions listed in red

Outstanding Master's Thesis Award

Tara Mittelberg, University of Wisconsin-MadisonZibo Jin, University of MinnesotaAaron Lorenz,  University of Guelph*Audrey Rizk, University of Florida

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Jake Smith, Iowa State University*Sarah Smith, University of California, Davis

Distinguished Teaching Awards:

  1. Less than 10 years
  2. 10 or more years', Undergraduate
  3. 10 or more years', Graduate

Na Zuo, University of Arizona*Nathan Kemper, University of ArkansasBrian Briggeman, Kansas State University

Dixie Dalton, Virginia Tech

Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Awards:

  1. Less than 10 years' experience
  2. 10 or more years' experience
  3. Group

Amy Hagerman, Oklahoma State University

Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University

Maria Marshall, Purdue University

Bruce Gardner Award

Dana Hoag, Colorado State University

Jesse Burkhardt, Colorado State University*Cesar Escalante, University of Georgia

Quality of Research Discovery Award

Laura Tiehen, USDA Economic Research Service

Dean Jolliffe, World Bank

Juan Margitic, Inter-American Development Bank

Martin Ravallion (Deceased)

*Kathleen Segerson, North Carolina State University

*Junjie Wu, North Carolina State University

*Chunhua Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Quality of Communication Award

Carrie Litkowski, USDA Economic Research Service

Tatiana Borisova, USDA Economic Research Service 

Jonathan Law, USDA Economic Research Service

Dipak Subedi, USDA Economic Research Service

Monika Ghimire, USDA Economic Research Service  

Katherine Lim, USDA Economic Research Service

Kathy Kassel, USDA Economic Research Service

AAEA Mentoring Award

Marc Bellemare, University of Minnesota

Publication of Enduring Quality Award

Tim Haab, The Ohio State University

Kenneth McConnell, University of Maryland

Outstanding AJAE Article

Jared Hutchins, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign*Anne Byrne, USDA-Economic Research Service

*David Just, Cornell University

Outstanding AJAE Reviewers

Margaret Jodlowski, Ohio State University

William Ridley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Colette Salemi, University of Victoria

Austin Ford Ramsey, University of Georgia

Outstanding AEPP Article

Joseph P. Janzen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Trey Malone, University of Arkansas

K. Aleks Schaefer, Oklahoma State University

Daniel P. Scheitrum, Cal Poly

Outstanding Choices Article

Dragan Milijkovic, North Dakota State  University

Frayne Olson, North Dakota State  University

Outstanding AETR Article

Jada M. Thompson, University of Arkansas

Misti D. Sharp, University of Florida

Jonathan C. Walton, University of Tennessee*Ruiqing Miao, Auburn University

*Jerrod Penn, Louisiana State University & LSU Agricultural Center

*Loka L. Ashwood, University of Kentucky

Presidential Recognition Award 

Kristen McGuire, AAEA Executive Director

Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship

Suresh Kumar

McCorkle Scholarship

Piyush Gandhi

Uma Lele Women's Scholarship

Disha Gupta, India Gandhi Institute of Developement

AAEA Trust Travel Grants

58 people received travel grant funds from the AAEA Trust

Academic Bowl Winners

1st Place: LSU; Benjamin Goldstein, Riley LaSavia, Colin Raby

2nd Place: LSU; Blake Edwards, Ali Fontenot, Carlos Sandoval

3rd Place: TAMU; Maddison Esterak, Owen Gibson, John Hendrix

Outstanding Paper Competition

1st place: Lars Rostad, University of Minnesota

2nd place: Ryanna Tietje, The Ohio State University

3rd place:  Trent Claessens, University of Guelph

Outstanding Chapter Club

Iowa State University

Outstanding Creative Club

Oklahoma State University

GSS Policy Communications Competition

1st Place: Anthony Caruso, Oklahoma State University

2nd Place: Azaz Zaman, Auburn University

3rd Place: Linge Yang, University of Connecticut

Case Study Competition

1st Place: University of Arkansas (Andrew Dilley, Walker Davis, Makenzie McJunkins)

2nd Place: Kansas State University (Calder McCollum, Delide Joseph, Vera Adabrah-Danquah)

3rd Place: University of Florida (Meri Hambaryan, Kelvin Amon, Chenxi Hu)

Extension Competition

1st place: Khashi Ghorbani, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2nd place: John Robinson, North Carolina State University

3rd place: Alexis Ghormley, Texas A&M University

Data Visualization Challenge

1st Place: Walter Ac Pangán, Jiyeon Kim, Priyanka Sharma for the Heartland region

2nd Place: Vidalina Abadam, Sanchita Chakrovorty, Jennifer Kennedy for the Southeast region

3rd Place: Davidson Obilor Nwaonu, Elizabeth Thilmany, Jean Pierre Zavala Varela for the Northeast region

FAMPS Poster Competition

Hannah Wich, Stephen F. Austin State University

Jaime Luke, Kansas State University

Kaitlyn L. Malakoff, Arizona State University

Important Dates

Past Deadlines: 

  • Pre & Post-conference Workshops (11/30)
  • Invited Papers (12/3)
  • Track Sessions (12/3)
  • Case Studies (12/3)
  • Organized Symposia (1/19)
  • Selected Presentations: Papers and Posters (1/19)
  • Awards (2/4)
  • Travel Grant Applications - Domestic (5/24)
  • Travel Grant Applications - International (5/24)

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