A number of department faculty and graduate students presented papers and posters at the 2011 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) meetings held July 24-26 in Pittsburgh, PA. Ian Sheldon received the AAEA Presidential Recognition Award for Special Service for outstanding leadership as inaugural editor of the AAEA journal Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy. Sathya Gopalakrishnan, who will join our faculty this fall from Duke University, received honorable mention for her dissertation titled "Shifting Shorelines: Combining Economics and Geomorphology in Beach Management" in the 2011 AAEA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation competition. Steve Vickner, also joining our faculty this fall, was elected as the new AAEA Student Section Faculty Advisor for 2012-2016. As one of four faculty advisors, Steve will help manage all undergraduate student activities for AAEA.
Please click here for a complete list of presentations and posters.