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University of California, Davis

  • New Appointments: James Sayre, assistant professor of Cooperative Extension; Travis Lybbert, Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA), CGIAR
  • Position Taken by Recent Graduate: Sarah Smith, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar, UC Davis 
  • Resignations: Ryan Goodrich; Ian Xu; Joel Tansey; Serena Leung
  • Visitors: Yu Lu, Ph.D. candidate, Nanjing Agricultural University, visiting graduate student, 9/1/23 to 8/31/24; Ze Song, associate professor, Nankai University, visiting scholar, 8/28/23-7/31/24; Juan Casanova Olaya, graduate student, Universidad del Cauca, Visiting Graduate Student, 11/5/23 to 5/4/24

Colorado State University

  • New Appointments: Lauren Chenarides, Assistant Professor; Nicholas Magnan, Associate Professor; Matthew Woerman, Assistant Professor
  • Appointment Changes: Joshua Berning, Professor; Alessandro Bonanno, Professor;
  • Awards: Hayley Chouinard, Denver Business Journal and the Colorado Farm Bureau, Who’s Who in Agriculture - Honoree, 2023; Stephen Koontz, WAEA, Western Agricultural Economics Association Fellow, 2023; Dawn Thilmany, AAEA, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Fellow, 2023; Samantha Ayoub, Farm Foundation, Farm Foundation Agricultural Scholar, 2023; Samantha Ayoub, AAEA, GSS/C-FARE Policy Communications Competition Award, 2023; Tais de Menezes, Colorado State University, Office of the Vice-President for Research Fellowship, 2023; Jo Smeby, Denver Business Journal and the Colorado Farm Bureau, 2023.
  • Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Siddharth Kishore, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California- Riverside; School of Public Policy; Nathan Palardy, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Department of Food and Resource Economics; Di Sheng, PhD, Research Associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Returns from Leave: Alessandro Bonanno; Becca Jablonski; Dale Manning
  • Retirements: Norman Dalsted, 44 Years of Service
  • Resignations: Alexandra hill

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Award: Jhorland Ayala, Sandy Dall’erba (2023), Martin Beckmann Best paper award for “The Impact of preemptive investments on natural disasters” published in Papers in Regional Science
  • Visitor: Xiangwei Sun, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Zhengzhou University in China, visiting scholar, August 2022-December 2024

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

  • New Appointments: Niharika Pandya, Research Analyst; Carmen Ruiz, Resource Mobilization Speciailist; Hailemariam Ayalew Tiruneh, Research Fellow; Shweta Yadav, Research Analyst; Stephanie Levy, Nonresident Fellow; Yumei Zhang, Nonresident Fellow; May Thet Htar, Research Analyst; Nina Jovanovic, Associate Research Fellow; Sharanya Rajiv, Research Analyst
  • Awards: Prapti Barooah, CGIAR Gender Platform, Best Poster Award for “Understanding drivers and barriers for adoption of climate-smart agriculture through a gender lens: Evidence from India”; Sonali Singh, CGIAR Gender Platform, Best Poster Award for presenting “From seeds of change to harvesting equality: Women in India’s agroecology based agri-food system”; Catherine Ragasa, Jordan Kyle, Ning Ma, CGIAR Gender Platform, Best Poster Award for “Positivity Bias and Influencing Elite Attitudes on Women’s Leadership”; Vartika Singh, Global-Local-Global Analysis of Systems Sustainability [GLASSNET], Early Career Research Award
  • Resignations: Parminder Virk; Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong; Mia Ellis; Darline Kengne Kuate; Kossi Akpaki; Simone Faas; Shreya Ray; Samuel Kebede; Tiruwork Tadesse
  • Visitors: Chris Boyd, AMD speaker for September 7, 2023; Chuan Tang and Yifeng Guo, Collaborate with Liangzhi You, and Joe Guo on the NSF-NSFC Joint project on Improving FEW system sustainability over the SEUS and NCP: A cross-regional synthesis considering uncertainties in climate and regional development, Oct 10-17

University of Missouri

  • Award: Pat Westhoff, UM System Board of Curators, Curator’s Distinguished Professor

Purdue University

  • Award: Thomas Hertel, Purdue University, Corinne Alexander Spirit of the Land-Grant Mission Award

Virginia Tech

  • New Appointments: Chunbei Wang, Associate Professor; Le Wang, Professor and David M. Kohl Chair
  • Appointment Change: John Bovay, Assistant Professor and Kohl Junior Faculty Fellow
  • Award: Le Wang, David M. Kohl Chair and Professor, winner of the ‘Outstanding Author Contribution in the 2023 Emerald Literati Awards’ for his chapter, “Women's Potential Earnings Distributions,” in Advances in Econometrics.